TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Beginner

4 min

Add, edit, and animate text

Enhance your designs by adding, editing, and animating header and paragraph text in your motion graphics projects.

What you’ll learn

Add different kinds of text

Use the type tool to add text to your project. Add headings using point text by clicking anywhere in your composition. Add paragraph text by dragging to create a text box.

Change the style

Customize your text by changing the font, fill color, size, or text alignment in the Properties panel.

Animate using keyframes

Add movement to your composition by adjusting transform properties and adding keyframes to mark the start and end points of your animation.


Instruction by

Sarah John

8 January 2025

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