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Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects

You're reading from  Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617281
Pages 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Vishu Aggarwal Vishu Aggarwal
Profile icon Vishu Aggarwal

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Working with Motion Graphics
2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know the User Interface and Workflow 3. Chapter 2: Applying Effects and Presets to Create Animated Graphics 4. Chapter 3: Deep-Dive into Text Animations 5. Chapter 4: Animating Shape Layers 6. Chapter 5: Adding Motion to Photoshop and Illustrator Graphics 7. Chapter 6: Creating Motion Graphic Templates for Premiere Pro 8. Part 2: Post-Production and Visual Effects
9. Chapter 7: Color Correction and Color Grading 10. Chapter 8: Rotoscoping and Mask Tracking Techniques 11. Chapter 9: Chroma Keying 12. Chapter 10: Working with Particle Simulations 13. Part 3: 2D and 3D Tracking, and Rendering
14. Chapter 11: Working with 2D and 3D Tracking 15. Chapter 12: Exporting and Managing Projects 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Saving animation as a preset

Now, we will look at how to save text animation presets so we can reuse the same animation in the future without needing to reconfigure everything. Specifically, we will save the animation created in the previous section as a preset. Before doing so, change the Based On option back to character-based, and then follow these steps:

  1. Make sure to select Animator 1 in the Basic text Animation layer.
  2. Now go to the Effects & Presets panel on the right side. If this panel isn’t visible, then go to Window | Effects & Presets to enable it.
  3. In the Effects & Presets panel menu, select the Save Animation Preset... option:
Figure 3.18: Save Animation Preset...

Figure 3.18: Save Animation Preset...

This will open a window to save the preset in the user preset folder.

  1. Name it Animate In then click Save, and your preset will be saved.
  2. To view the preset you just saved, go to Effects & Presets, open the animation presets dropdown...
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