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hellopaul4
Inspiring
February 4, 2026
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Text Animator > By Paragraph

  • February 4, 2026
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I regularly use text animators to bring on text a character/word/line at a time, but I sometimes have to animate chunks of text appearing one paragraph at a time. There is no easy way to do this using Text Animators, so I propose the addition of a “Paragraph” option as well as character/word/line. This would only work with Paragraph text, and it would enable me to animate a whole paragraph appearing in one chunk.

Currently, if, for example, I have a chunk of text (bullet points) and I animate ‘per line’, and have these keyframes:

...then the first, single-line bullet points appear as you’d expect: each one takes 1 sec to fade on. But if I then animate from line 5 to line 7 (this bullet point spans two lines), the lines appear sequentially (as you’d expect) because we’re animating line-by-line. If I had a Paragraph option, then these lines would fade on together.

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    Kyle Hamrick
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 4, 2026

    Using multiple Range Selectors technically solves the use cases I can think of, but I’m happily upvoting nonetheless. 

    Under the hood, I think you’re essentially asking AE to be aware of the line breaks, which it’s already capable of doing via expressions, so this seems doable. 

    In case this helps in the meantime: Select a chunk of text before creating the text animator, which then sets that range into the created Range Selector. You can pretty quickly select each paragraph & create an animator for each, just to easily get the range. Move each Range Selector under one Animator, adjust the affected properties, and animate the Amount of each selector. 

    hellopaul4
    Inspiring
    February 4, 2026

    Hi Kyle,

    Yes, I’ve used workarounds like that in the past (and broken things when I edit the text), but it’d be a whole lot easier if the text animator could just figure out what a paragraph is. AE already knows what a paragraph is, because I can add paragraph spacing before or after it - it just needs to tell the Text Animator’s Range Selector what a paragraph is!

    Kyle Hamrick
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 4, 2026

    Mmm, yep - editability is the rub here. Well, as I said, I’ve happily upvoted! Would love to see this implemented.