The New 2D Text Box Preset in After Effects

Are you ready to level up your Motion design game? Well, buckle up, because I’m going to show you a game-changer—the brand-new “2D Text Box (Mask and Effects)” preset!

No more hours of code, no more frustration, no more searching for outdated tutorials just to put a simple box around your text. This is the HUGE improvement we’ve all been waiting for, and it’s going to change the way you work.

It has been added to After Effects cc2024 in the last months, so you don’t have to pay anything more.. it’s part of your Adobe Subscription, together with the tons of other presets and effects.

How To Use the Text Box Preset

1. All you need to do is to Create a Text Layer with the text you need.

2. Then go to the Effects and Presets panel and look for: 2D Text Box (Mask and Effects)

3. Drag it over your text layer to apply it.

4. Edit the properties you want to change in the effects control panel.

The great news is that it is self adapting to the text. For instance, if you put a text animator on the layer, the text box will adapt to the content at each moment.

You can also change the Padding, the roundness and direction of the corners, even individually… so you can set a round corner on the top left, while keeping square corners on the others.

Of course each and every color is easily accessible in the effects properties panel, together with all the configurations for the fill and the lines.

Personally, I have always been using some of my expressions when I needed text boxes. Having a developer background helped me in the past.. but frankly, since when I discovered this new textbox preset, I have being using it almost exclusively!

This is THE tool motion designers have been dreaming of. You’ve got total creative freedom, and you can focus on what really matters—your design, not wasting time coding!

And that’s it! The brand-new “2D Text Box (Mask and Effects)” preset is here, and it’s going to change the way you work forever. Say goodbye to coding stress, and hello to creative freedom!

So, what are you waiting for? Go try it out and let me know in the comments how much time it’s saving you.