Text anchor point properties

Text animators animate character position, rotation, and size-related properties relative to an anchor point. You can use the text property, Anchor Point Grouping, to specify whether the anchor point used for transformations is that of each character, each word, each line, or the entire text block. In addition, you can control the alignment of the anchor points of the characters relative to the anchor point of the group with the Grouping Alignment property.

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Original text, then rotated and with Grouping Alignment set to Character, Word, and Line

  1. Expand the text layer in the Timeline panel, and expand the More Options property group.
  2. Do any of the following:

    • Choose how to group the character anchor points from the Anchor Point Grouping menu.

    • Lower the Grouping Alignment values to move each anchor point up and to the left.

    • Raise the Grouping Alignment values to move each anchor point down and to the right.

      To center the anchor point in a string of capital letters, try a Grouping Alignment value of 0%, -50%. To center the anchor point in a string of lowercase letters, or if you’re using both lowercase and uppercase letters, try 0%, -25%.