Character + Paragraph - The Panels of After Effects
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Motion Design
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The Character & Paragraph panels are essential to working with text in After Effects. In this Panels of After Effects tutorial, I'll walk you through everything these panels have to offer.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:57 Character Panel Basics
01:20 Font Sizing and Spacing
03:05 Optical vs Metrics Kerning Types
04:49 Stroke Options
06:17 Scale and Positioning
07:33 Transformations
08:36 Ligitures & Hindi Digitgs
09:50 Smart Quotes
10:44 Text Alignment
12:02 Paragraph Justification
13:24 Indentation
14:16 Left to Right & Right to Left
14:35 More Controls
Download the Panels of Ae PDF: https://jkinmo.com/oxvgh4
Jake In Motion Discord: https://discord.com/invite/b5PkuCCCAu
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The Character & Paragraph panels are essential to working with text in After Effects. In this Panels of After Effects tutorial, I'll walk you through everything these panels have to offer.
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📸Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jakeinmotion
🐤X: https://x.com/jakeinmotion
🏷️ Tag @jakeinmotion if you learned something!
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:57 Character Panel Basics
01:20 Font Sizing and Spacing
03:05 Optical vs Metrics Kerning Types
04:49 Stroke Options
06:17 Scale and Positioning
07:33 Transformations
08:36 Ligitures & Hindi Digitgs
09:50 Smart Quotes
10:44 Text Alignment
12:02 Paragraph Justification
13:24 Indentation
14:16 Left to Right & Right to Left
14:35 More Controls