Create Subtitles in After Effects with a Simple Hack 🎬

This After Effects tutorial will teach you how to create subtitles in After Effects. The really cool thing is, you will learn how to write an expression that will keep your text layer in an exact location while also forcing your anchor point to the center of your text. These are VITAL tips that you can use in a number of other situations.

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Outline
00:00 - Series Intro
00:10 - Episode Intro
01:45 - BEGIN TUTORIAL
01:45 - Setting up the project
02:29 - Adding Audio to the timeline
03:13 - Adding Text to the timeline
03:28 - Manually center text in layer content
03:38 - Adding keyframes and the value expression to Text Position
04:04 - Adding keyframes to Source Text
04:27 - Adding more Text to create keyframes
05:09 - Using third party plugins to center text in layer content
05:59 - Repeat the process
07:53 - Altering the value expression
08:12 - Making Global Text changes
09:03 - Correcting spelling
09:57 - Saving the Animation Preset
10:29 - Summary
11:05 - Envato Elements Promo
12:33 - Outro

As always, thanks for watching. And I’ll see you next time!