I have always used the Adobe Bridge previewer to check the Adobe after effects text animation presets, however browsing on different motion graphic forums I found out that a lot of people online are having trouble to preview the default After Effects text presets or that the after effects animation presets are not working.
Thinking about it for a while I have decided to help and make a thumbnails animation preview gallery of each After Effects text presets, YES it was a lot of work to develop this After Effects text animation presets preview page but I am sure it will help motion graphic designers and video editors to find precisely the text presets animation they need quickly and ultimately improve their workflow.
Click on the + sign below to expand and browse the default After Effects text presets preview thumbnails gallery.
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| 3D Basic Position Z Cascade | 3D Basic Position Z Typeon | 3D Basic Rotate X Cascade |
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| 3D Basic Rotate Y Cascade | 3D Bouncing In Centered | 3D Fall Back Scale & Skew |
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| 3D Fall Back Scramble & Blur | 3D Flip In Rotate X | 3D Flip Out Rotate X |
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| 3D Flip Up Reflection | 3D Flutter In From Left | 3D Flutter In Random Order |
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| 3D Flutter Out From Right | 3D Fly Down & Unfold | 3D Fly Down Behind Camera |
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| 3D Fly Down Random & Rotate Y | 3D Lines Zoom In | 3D Rain Down Words & Colors |
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| 3D Random Spike Tumble | 3D Resolve Position | 3D Rotate around Circle |
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| 3D Rotate in by Character | 3D Rotate out by Word | 3D Scramble in Position Z |
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| 3D Spiral Down & Unfold | 3D Spiral Rotate In by Line | 3D Spiral Rotate Out by Line |
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| 3D Swing Around on Path | 3D Tumble Words Forward | 3D Twist & Color Characters |
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| Center Spiral | Characters Shuffle In | Decoder Fade In |
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| Drop In By Character | Espresso Eye Chart | Fade Up And Flip |
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| Fade Up Characters | Fade Up Lines | Fade Up Words |
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| Fly In From Bottom | Fly In With A Twist | Pop Buzz Words |
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| Raining Characters In | Random Fade Up | Random Shuffle In |
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| Random Word Shuffle In | Slow Fade On | Smooth Move In |
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| Spin In By Character | Spin In By Word | Straight In By Character |
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| Straight In By Word | Straight In Multi-Line | Stretch In Each Line |
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| Stretch In Each Word | Twirl On Each Line | Twirl On Each Word |
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| Typewriter | Wipe In To Center | |
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| Encoder Fade Out | Fade Out By Character | Fade Out Slow |
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| Raining Characters Out | Random Fly Off | Random Word Fly Off |
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| Slide Off Right By Character | Slide Off Right By Word | Stretch Out Each Line |
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| Stretch Out Each Word | Twirl Off Each Line | Twirl Off Each Word |
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| Blur By Word | Bullet Train | Evaporate |
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| Foggy | Jiggy | Transporter |
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| Bloom Flower | Clockwise Entry | Counter Rotate |
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| Dust Devil | Lasso Tumble | Lasso |
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| Musical Chairs | Newton | Pinwheel |
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| Radial Flare | Retrograde | Rotate |
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| Somersault | Spin Fast | Spiral Exit |
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| Spiral In | Spirograph | Swoopy Entry |
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| Tea Leaves | Tire Rim | Whirl In |
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| Buzz Words | Current Time Format | Dictionary |
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| Display Comp time | Frame Number | Inch Worm |
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| Text bounce |
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| Chasing Strokes | Fill Color Wipe | Flicker Color – Scale |
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| Flicker Color | Flicker Green | Inflammation |
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| Pulse Blue | Pulse Orange | Pulsing Strokes |
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| Pulsing Strokes 2 | Rotate Hue | Sliding Color Flicker |
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| Stroke Ease Down | Wiggly Stroke Width By Line | Wiggly Stroke Width |
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| Bars Blinky | Bars Lime | Blue Note |
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| Cut Shapes | Exchange | Green Dots |
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| Hazard | Red Circles | Scratchy Film |
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| Snowflakes | White Trim | Yellow Boxes |
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| Blue Flash | Broadway | Bubble Pulse |
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| Emerge | Exposure | Flash |
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| Flicker Exposure | Fluctuate | Fluorescent Light |
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| Office Light | Overlay | Pulse Exposure |
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| Shadows | Silhouettes | Sonar Ping |
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| Spin Flash | Word Flash |
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| Algorithm | Algorithm Loop | Automation |
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| Bad Reception | Doppler | Electro Magnet |
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| Helicopter | Insert Text | Kinematic |
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| Mechanical | Pistons | Rack & Pinion |
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| Roadtrip | Roadtrip2 | Scale Bounce |
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| Screen Roll | Stairstep | Submarine |
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| Underscore | Warp 9.8 |
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| Angle Fly-In | Back Flip | Blow Away |
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| Bounce In | Bungee | Chaotic 1 |
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| Chaotic 2 | Clay Pigeons | Dot.Com |
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| Elbow Room | Explosion | Explosion 2 |
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| Hop, Skip, And A Jump | Pendulum | Punching Bag |
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| Question | Rattle | Roll Bounce |
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| Sequential Jump | Six-Shooter | Slide Bounce |
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| Slip In Out | Smokey | Squeeze |
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| Superhero | Swing Up | Twisty Ribbons |
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| Twisty Ribbons 2 | Vanishing Point | Wiggly Lines |
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| Yo-Yo |
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| Alphabet Soup | Contract – Expand | Currents |
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| Data Packet | Data Stream | Dealer |
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| Encryption | Fly In By Characters | Fly In By Words |
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| Front – Back | Frontside – Backside | Ideas |
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| Incoming | Jetstream 2 | Jetstream |
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| Multi-Line Flip | Outgoing – Incoming | Pneumatic |
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| Production | Stack Right Left | Weekdays |
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| Word Processor | Zippy |
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| Autumn | Boiling | Boomerang |
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| Bounce Diagonal | Chewing Gum | Climber |
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| Dip-Bounce | Double-Helix | Drop Bounce |
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| Fish Bait | Flutter | Flying Formation |
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| Horsefly | Hummingbird | Insect Wipe |
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| Insects | Labrador | Leapfrog |
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| Loose Line | Ocean Tide | Quiver |
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| Ripple | Rubber Floor | Rubber |
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| Sea-Sick | Shuffle | Simmer |
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| Slice And Dice | Sprouts | Tag Team |
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| Wheatfield | Wind Current | Wobble |
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| 360 Loop | Antelope | Ants |
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| Back Stage | Balance | Balloon Man |
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| Balloon | Bouncing | Bubble Pop |
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| Bump And Slide On | Centipede | Circuit Board |
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| Conveyor Belt | Double Spiral | Down And Out |
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| Downhill Slide Off | Downhill Slide On | Frenzy |
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| Hurdles | Karate Chop | Loop On And Off |
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| Lyrical | Organism | Paper Clip |
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| Pipes | Racquetball | Rat Nest |
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| Reel To Reel | Reel To Reel 2 | Rope Bridge |
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| Serpent | Slippery Slope | Spiral Long |
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| Spiral | Springy | Squirmy |
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| Stairwell | Symmetry | Tchotchke |
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| Walk Of Stars | Zig-Zag |
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| Drip Down | Flip Up | Full Rotation |
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| Loopy Loop | Random Rotation | Rotate Chars |
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| Rotate Per Word | Spin In | Swirly Rotation |
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| Whirlwind |
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| Large Scale | Let’s Dance | Scale Down Word |
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| Scale Down | Scale Up Word | Scale Up |
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| Wiggly Scale Wipe | Zoom Away | Zoom Forward |
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| Contract | Decrease Tracking | Extend |
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| Increase Tracking | Magnify | Spasm |
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If you like presets I have created other useful After Effects Presets Preview galleries check them out below:
Now If you haven’t found the animated text your need and have a little budget to spend I recommend checking the After Effects text animation I worked on below
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Also an After Effects plug in I use for text animation that is super handy if you need to make text animation in couple of second is Misterhose text presets they have a text library of more than 1000 animated text presets, you basically almost just drag and drop your animation and voila!. Check the video demo below
You can also download they free plug in Animation Composer and see if you like it.
You are the best! ) Thanks for this )
A huge thank-you for doing this, I teach AE to students and I’ve never got the Bridge preview working since CS5 or so, now, thanks to you it’s all here for them to preview! Thanks again.
Thanks for your comment! I am super happy it is helping you and your students. Best – Salim
thanku so soo much
Nice man, this presets are amazing, and thank you for the patience to bring it here.
You’re welcome! Glad you like them, feel free to let me know if there is anything else you are looking for. – Salim
Thank you Salim, very helpful!
Thank you, this is a big help
great job. Thanks!
Thank you! My Bridge stopped working so this was a great help!
You’re welcome! I had the same problem with Bridge, one of the reason I built this page, good luck 🙂
This is amazingly helpful, thanks for taking the time to do it!
Excellent. Thanks so much. Very helpful. One thing, It looks like Scale Down Word is displaying Scale Up Word.
Good catch Johnny! thanks so much for your message I just replaced it. All my best.
Salim
Thanks so much, help me a lot
I have been working on Bridge in motion graphic animation since 2 weeks and now found this. Really thanks a lot, it’s really so helpful.
Thank You!! 🙂
You’re all welcome! I spent hours developing this page and I am glad it is helping everyone, I am myself
motion designer and got frustrated with those AE text presets preview so I build this solution 🙂
Thanks so much
Thank you!!!!!
You’re welcome! Glad those AE text presets preview are helping you 🙂
Very useful and a time-saver! I appreciate the effort you put in! Will you also be creating non-text effect previews? 🙂
Sure! 🙂 What do you mean by non-text effects previews? thanks!
Are these supposed to be the presets that come with after effects, because my after effects doesn’t have any presets?
Yes After Effects always come with those text animation presets, you might need to re-install if you don’t see them. thanks!
Thank you! This what I was looking for!
I have a question. Hopefully someone please respond. I’m looking for the preset that animates the text from line particles that eventually turns into letters and can’t seem to find it. I have been searching for it for the past two years and have found nothing. An example of what I am looking for is from the opening title credits from the divergent movie. (Yellow font) here’s a link https://youtu.be/Bg_BEsjbjnU
Hi Thomas, you most likely won’t find a preset for this, the letters pieces will need to be animated manually or with an expression.
After effects presets do not allows to break letters in multiple parts unfortunately, hope this helps.
Thanks
Thanks so much for the reply. That’s unfortunate to hear, I was hoping you’d send me in the direction of at least someone who knows how to animate text like this. If you could do that, that would be much appreciated. I’ll even pay for the tutorial myself if I have to, please. I’m desperate for the animation and have nowhere else to turn. Thank you for your time. Or if anyone else can help me with this issue, please and thank you.
Thank you so very much for this.
Good job, Thank you
Thank you so much. It does help to make my works a lot easier. Halves the time and lesser headache..:)
Thumbs up to you!!
YOU ARE THE BEST!! Thank you so much for doing this. I used to use Bridge for previews but that stopped working some years ago…
Thank you 🙂 Glad you found the page useful!
This is unbelievably amazing. Thank you so much for making & sharing this! I had so much trouble with the bridge preview, I was just praying there would be something like this out somewhere…
You are very welcome 🙂 very happy it help you out!
thank you
This is great – much appreciated
Appreciate you putting this page together, its super helpful.
This is so helpful! Thank you!
You are truly an angel! Thank you so much!!!
MAN, unbelievable you solved this probelm… THANK YOU! Bookmarked… please don t ever take this down!
Thank you so much. Saves a TON of time having to click through each one, apply… undo… This is so much easier and faster to preview the effects!
You are very welcome! let me know if there is other area of After Effects I can help with.
I literally use this weekly. Thanks so much!
Awesome! very happy to hear that! 🙂
This is so helpful!
THANK YOU! It’s shameful Adobe leaves a feature like this broken, and we all have to rely on a third party to deliver the goods they promise. But THANK YOU for doing it!
You’re very welcome Galen! Thanks for your inputs. Happy I can help other motion designers in their workflow. I had myself too much trouble to preview the presets and decided the create a solution rather than waiting and waste time.
Thank you so much! The world needs more people like you!
You’re welcome. Thanks for the nice words 🙂
BLESS YOU FOR DOING THIS
thank you
thank you !!!
thank you
thanks
MVP!! Thank you so much for this, this saves me so much time from trying to revisit presets I’ve used once years ago or even trying to rebuild them from scratch. I’m sharing this with everyone I know that does motion graphics/video work!
Thanks for sharing really appreciate it 🙂
thank you !!!!!