Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Prepare for a long tutorial. In this After Effects tut, I'll go over the start to finish on preparing/creating/and rigging up a shape layer preset. Specifically a sign or a callout. This auto links with whatever text layer you want, and is all around really great. Anyways, its long, but I don't hold anything back, you see the whole process.

To learn more about the Pseudo Effects Creator, go here.
aescripts.com/pseudo-effect-maker

1:00 planning on paper
9:00 building the controller in After Effects
17:13 connecting scale and position
22:55 sourceRectAtTime
25:28 padding
27:27 align text left/right up/down
30:38 creating the point at the bottom
40:17 linking colors and such



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