Clarifying the Text

If you preview the animation at this point, you'll notice that the text is much too difficult to read because the letters appear to merge into one another. You'll make the viewer focus on the topmost text layer and increase its readability by fading in all the text layers behind it and changing their color . This technique will also add more impact when the topmost text layer lands in place:

1.	Select the Base Text Comp layers 3 through 9 (leaving Base Text Comp layer 2 unselected ), press T, and then add a 0% Opacity keyframe at time 0;00.
2.	With layers 39 still selected, go to time 5;00 and change their Opacity values to 30%. Then, go to time 6;00, and change the values to 70%.
3.	Create an Adjustment layer (Layer > New > Adjustment Layer), and place it below the topmost Base Text Comp layer in the Timeline at time 0;00. Completed Text Stack Comp Timeline
4.	Apply Effect > Image Control > Tint to the Adjustment layer, and set the effect's Map White To color to RGB: 130, 230, 254 and the Amount of Tint to 100% Settings for the Tint effect in the Effect Controls window

The Adjustment layer works just like a Photoshop Adjustment layer, so all layers below the Adjustment layer in the Timeline are affected by its settings. In your project, all the Base Text Layers except the top one should display the blue color that you set in the Adjustment layer.

Composition at time 3;00

Adding the Slogans

Now you'll pull the project elements together in a master composition. You'll animate a new slogan with the Raining Characters Out preset and use the resulting animation as a faint background:

1.	Create a comp named Master Comp, using the NTSC D1 Square Pix, 720x540 preset, with Duration 15;00 seconds.
2.	Select the Horizontal Type tool, and set the following in the Character and Paragraph palettes: Font Family: Arial Black Font Size: 24px Alignment: Center Text
3.	At time 0;00, create a new layer in the middle of the Composition window by choosing Layer > New > Text. Type `MANAGE THE FUTURE` on one line, press Enter or Return on your keyboard, and type `OF YOUR BUSINESS` on the next line. The new text slogan
4.	Still at time 0;00, apply Animation > Apply Animation Preset >Text > Animate Out > Raining Characters Out to the text layer. Note When you choose Animation > Apply Animation Preset, After Effects should open the Presets folder. If it doesn't, you can locate that folder by navigating to the After Effects application folder > Support Files > Presets > Text .
5.	Go to time 0;00, and add a Scale keyframe of 1000, 1000% and a 0% Opacity keyframe to the text layer.
6.	Go to time 1;00, and change Scale to 100, 100% and Opacity to 100%. These keyframes are timed to fade in the slogan just as the Text Stack Comp animation starts to rain in the letters in the text From Dreams to Ideas to Business Solutions .
7.	At time 4;00, press Alt + ] (Windows) or Option + ] (Mac OS) to trim the layer's Out point.
8.	Go to time 0;00, and add the Text Stack Comp from the Project window to the Timeline.
9.	Go to time 7;00, and add the Text Stack Comp to the Master Comp Timeline againbut below the MANAGE THE FUTURE text layer. Now the Timeline has a Text Stack Comp starting at time 0;00 and another copy starting at time 7;00.
10.	Set the Opacity of the bottom Text Stack Comp (located at time 7;00) to 30%, and don't add a keyframe. The Master Comp Timeline At time 0;07, the slogan MANAGE THE FUTURE fades in. At time 1;14, the MANAGE… text rains out of the scene as the other text rains in.

Raining in the next slogan

You'll add another slogan to the project and animate it by using the Raining Characters In preset again. (Presets don't do all the necessary work for you, but they're mighty handy, aren't they?) Even though you used the same preset for the wall of text that you created in an earlier section, the results will look unique after you scale the text and assemble the sequences:

1.	Select the Horizontal Type tool, and make sure the properties in the Character and Paragraph palettes are still set as follows : Text Size: 24px Font Family: Arial Black Alignment: Center Text
2.	Go to time 6;00, and choose Layer > New > Text to create a text layer in the middle of the Composition window. Type `TURNING IDEAS` on one line and `INTO SUCCESS` on the next. The TURNING… text layer at time 6;00
3.	With the new text layer selected, choose Animation > Recent Animation Presets > Raining Characters In.
4.	Add a Scale keyframe of 40, 40% at time 6;00, and change the Scale to 100, 100% at time 8;00.
5.	With the TURNING… text layer selected, press U on your keyboard to reveal the layer's keyframes. Move the layer's Offset keyframe at time 7;00 to time 6;00 and its Offset keyframe at time 9;15 to time 8;00. Tip Press Shift as you drag a keyframe to snap it to a particular point in time.
6.	Move the TURNING… layer in the Timeline's layer stack so it's layer 2. Now the TURNING… layer comes in beneath the text in the topmost Text Stack Comp as the composition's text fades out. The Master Comp Timeline The white text of the TURNING… layer begins to appear at time 7;00 behind the blue text.