Animating Paragraph Channels

In the Text Tool, the Animation controls include a Paragraph Channel View for viewing text channels in the Channel Editor. Use the attributes and transformation channels to animate paragraphs and characters and fine-tune animations created using the Attributes menu.

(a) Paragraph folder contains all the characters, including spaces between words  (b) You can animate specific channels for each character  

To animate paragraph channels:

1. In the Text menu, click Animation to display the Channel Editor.

2. From the Paragraph Channel View box, select the paragraph channels you want to view in the Channel Editor.

   

   Select:	To view:
   Current	The channels for the selected paragraph—the current cursor location.
   Layer	The channels for all paragraphs in the selected layer.
   All	All channels for all paragraphs in all layers.

3. Animate the selected channels as required.