Modify Text Animation Preset?

I am not exactly a newbie to AE but it has been a while since I have used it so I am a bit rusty.
I just upgraded to CS3 and am trying to use the Text Animation Presets. When trying to use Text Rain In and Text Rain Out to morph text from one thing at the top of the screen to something else at the bottom of the screen, I can't figure out how to modify the end points of the effects. All of the effects features seem to be inaccessible throught the timeline.
What am I missing? Thanks.

> of the effects features seem to be inaccessible throught the timeline.
Hard to tell from your post but you seem to be having trouble with the text animators. There are many pages in the help system that describe them. Do you know how the selectors work? The text animation system is incredibly powerful but it introduced a completely new paradigm to a AE's already supercomplex interface.
bogiesan

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My question is - Does Bridge CC have more text animation presets then Bridge CS6.
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Hello there everyone,
Ive just purchased Flash CS3 and i can not for the life of me
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Flash has never had preset text effects - so there was
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DragunX5 wrote:
> Hello there everyone,
>
> Ive just purchased Flash CS3 and i can not for the life
of me find the option
> for the Text animation presets and effects. Does this
version still have them
> or did they scrap it?
>
> Any help is appreciated. Thanks
>

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I am looking for some text animation presets to make my intro look better.What I did was going into the effects & presets tab>Animation presets>Presets, I searched there but I didnt find a text preset group.In fact there are only a few animation presets.Could someone upload me his text presets or just show me how to fix that.

Adobe After Effects Cs 4, Windows 7 Proffesional Sp1, The text Animation presets are not even on the AE folder.They Dont exist, I dont understand your questions, how did you install.Can you upload me your animation presets please?Or just Text Animation presets!

Text animation preset

I have used native presets, downloaded some from real script writers and also from other sources, and these all seem to work fine, whether using key frames or in and out points it all works.
Here is a download link for a project with 1 comp, with two text layers in. 1 works perfectly (I didn't animate myself) and 1 has my attempted saved preset on, but just does nothing. How can I copy and save the working animation as a preset? I selected all keyframes, saved as a preset, applied this preset to the layer, but it just does nothing, and doesn't even take across all values like the ramp up etc.
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Dropbox - Test (converted) copy 1 comp 4.zip

Hi Rick
Yeah I've created animation presets before just for movements etc and those have worked well. And also work on a text layer etc.
This is using the range selectors (I don't even know what they've used I just can see how it's animating!!)
I used U to twirl down all the keyframes on the one layer of their text animation. Selected them and saved the preset. When I then apply that preset to my own editable text layer, I get the key frames etc, and the values change... but no animation happens.
Oh dear. Am I missing a point here? That should work right?

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"Shows" can be done a thousand different ways but let's just say you're scaling the letter up from 0% to 100%.
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Do you have any quick suggestions as to where to get additional text animation presets??
I want some super cool/sleek stuff...
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I really like when Frank talks about the "3 Pillars" in the video below. You'll see the text animation identifying the 3 Pillars as displayed below =
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oJMt8ZrfPI&feature=player_detailpage#t=45s
Thanks so much - just wanted to check if anyone had any quick tips/insight.

wanted to check if I could maybe pay you or anyone else a few bucks to shoot me the preset if it fits the feel of the example video. I'd like to maybe do one more text animation as well - that's shorter and to the point.
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This might be a dumb question, but it's really stumping me. I want to animate a title using some of the text animation presets, but I can't seem to apply an animation that makes the text appear AND an animation that makes the text disappear. I can do one or the other, but not both.
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