Great 10 minute tutorial on basic text animations. ECAbrams does a great job showing how keyframes could easily be synced up with audio waveforms. I've seen a lot of text effects and presets in programs like LiveType and iMovie. This tutorial shows how many of those effects are made from scratch. I'm guessing once they're made, the properties can just be copy and pasted to another text layer to make the workflow move quickly.
Use the "write-on" effect to underline text or animate lines in Adobe Premiere Pro. I'm working on some essay writing tutorials at the moment. While my talent writes on the ipad underlining what she needs to, I'll come back afterwards in editing and re-create the underlining in Premiere using this effect so it looks more professional.
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