 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe animate tutorial in this one. I'm going to show you how to animate text Now I'm going to state up front here that animating text in Adobe animate previously called flash is a Little trickier than in using other programs and it's a lot more limited in terms of what you can do if you're an after-effects user You will notice it. I've got just some basic stuff here. I'll just hit play and show you It's really really fast and jarring, but let's give you an example what you can do You'll notice how that when I go through this slowly I've started the animation I went from black and then I'm started moving it and then I went to red so you can do those types of Animations you can make it longer and less janky, but again, this is just to teach you the technique So I'm going to add a new layer here, and I'm going to delete the old layer Okay, good now the first step is you want to go and add in some text obviously So I'm going to add text in on the fifth frame And I'm going to go to the text tool, and then I'm just going to left-click anywhere on the canvas How to animate? Text all right good I'm going to click out and I'm going to go ahead and grab the selection tool and I'm just going to center that Let's go here something like that. Okay. Good. Here's a quick pro tip in case you're interested There's an align option here on the bottom on the top right here in this toolbar if you don't see it You can always go to window and just check for it. Make sure there's a check mark beside a line I'm going to go ahead and center it in both the vertical and Horizontal centers you'll also see check mark beside aligned the stage so it's aligned perfectly in the middle Okay. All right that little aside Aside, let's keep going the next step is and this is a critical one is you want to go ahead and Turn this into a symbol so you need to go to modify and then go to convert to Symbol left-click on convert to symbol you get three options You get a graphic a movie clip and a button Always choose graphic unless there's a very good reason for you to choose Otherwise which will cover in different in different videos, but almost 99 out of 100 times you want graphic Okay, you can change the name if you want. I'm just going to go ahead and just write in text Just for the heck of it. Okay, click on okay. Oh, yeah, of course. It's taking groups. Okay. Let's go with Text three there we go. I don't know where maybe it's in one of my other video my other Projects it's open. Okay, so we've got how to animate text. We've changed it into a symbol now We can go ahead and go to let's say the 25th frame here And I'm gonna go ahead and add in a I don't know we're gonna go ahead and make some changes So I'm gonna left-click on it to make sure that it's selected and now that it's a symbol you'll see it up here It says graphic. Let's go ahead and go to the color effects Under color effects. I'm gonna do a simple brightness. No, we're gonna do a tint So I'm gonna left-click on tint and now I get to choose a second color So I'm gonna go with a bright red. Okay, so here's what we've got so far We've got no tweening yet, but we've got it starts at black It stays black until the 25th and then it becomes red So if you're doing that type of animation, that's all you need to see if you want to do a gradual change from black To red which is a different type of animation. We want to go ahead and add in a tween So I'm gonna right-click on the timeline here, and I'm gonna create a classic tween left-click on classic tween and now you'll see it starts black and it slowly adds and changes over to Red and by the 25th frame, it's gonna be nice and bright red. Okay, cool That is how you animate properties and how you animate text guys You can do other types of animations just a heads up if you click on it You can change the brightness of it. You can change the colors. You can change the opacity There are a variety of adjustments you can make but that is the gist of it create a tween create a symbol That's it guys. Thanks for watching ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned