If you move the blue timeline marker from 0 to 1 second, the underline will now animate on-screen. With the timeline marker at 1 second, change the End value from 0% to 100% - this should add another keyframe at the one second mark: Move the timeline marker across by about 1 second. Open the settings of the trim paths option you’ve just added to your shape layer and change the End value to 0%.Īfter you’ve changed the value to 0, click the little stopwatch icon to add a keyframe. In your underline shape layer, click the arrow next to the word Add and then choose Trim Paths:
If you want to animate your underline in After effects: Step 1. If your underline doesn’t match up with your text, change the position of your shape layer so that the underline is directly beneath your chosen word. With your line layer selected, you can adjust the colour and size of the stroke value via the stroke and fill settings in the top toolbar.Ĭlick the square icon (coloured green in the image below) next to the word stroke to change the colour:Ĭlick the blue number next to the square to change the thickness of your underline.Īlternatively, the style of your underline can be changed via the stroke options of your layer in the composition panel: Holding the shift key ensures you’ll create a perfectly straight underline. Then while holding the shift key on your keyboard, click a second time on your shape layer where you want the underline to end. Draw your lineĬlick on the shape layer to create the first point where you’d like your line to start. Note: If you don’t see the pen tool or any other tools at the top of After Effects you may need to enable the toolbar by going to Window > Tools. With the shape layer selected in your composition, click the pen icon from the toolbar at the top of After Effects or press (P) on your keyboard. Go to Layer > New > Shape layer to add one to your composition. (I’ll assume you already have your text layer ready to go in After Effects, if not, create that first) Step 1. How to manually underline text in After Effects: I’ll run through how to do things manually below, but if you want to save time and easily automate the process then check out my Highlight script that lets you easily underline text at the touch of a button in After Effects.
In this post I’m going to run through the process for creating an underline in After Effects using shape layers. I’ll say that again: there is no option to underline text via the character panel in After Effects.Īs startling as this may be, there is a workaround for the lack of an underline option. Perhaps the biggest quirk of all is that there is no way to add underlined text using the character panel as you would do in another Adobe program like Illustrator. After Effects definitely has some interesting quirks about it.
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