Online keyboards for After Effects
This page gathers the keyboards that help you type text for your After Effects animations. For now, the Arabic keyboard is the only one involved.
Compatible keyboards
Arabic text in motion design
Opening titles, channel branding, ads and social media videos all use Arabic heavily in motion design. In After Effects you will meet one of two situations. With the South Asian and Middle Eastern text engine, pasted text behaves normally. Without it, letters come apart and land in reverse order, so you need a converted version.
The compatible keyboard
The Arabic keyboard for After Effects covers both situations. Its page explains where to change the text engine, how to reverse a typewriter effect and which animators to avoid so joins do not break. The Floating keyboard keeps typing within reach while the composition fills the screen. Phonetic and Words modes also help motion designers who receive Arabic copy without knowing the keyboard layout.
Persian, Urdu and what comes next
Persian and Urdu share the same challenges as Arabic: right-to-left reading and connected letters. The design software mode of the Persian and Urdu keyboards prepares their text the same way for your animated titles. If your animations are later cut into a film, the Premiere Pro use page takes over, while still images belong to the Photoshop use page.