Final Product What You'll Be Creating Have you seen those
animated adverts, where the text seamlessly moves along path? In
this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a sequence
that involves text animating along a custom path using the first
margin text property. A custom path is a vector path that is
drawn freehand using the pen tool in After Effects. Create a new
composition The first thing we are going to do is create a
composition; this is the canvas you will create your animation
on. To manually create a composition, you need to do the
following. Choose New Composition. New composition window. This
will open the composition dialog box. The options on the basic
tab will allow you to set up the preset, width, height, aspect
ratio, frames per second, start code and duration for your
animated sequence. With the dialog box open apply the following
settings: Preset: PAL D1 / DV Width and height: 720 X 576 Aspect
Ratio: D1/ DV PAL 1.09 Start Timecode: 0.00.00.00 Depending on
your output, you may want to