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  • Strange Box Around Text When Animating

    Posted by Ben Fleming on July 7, 2009 at 6:03 pm

    I’m doing a typography music video (where the text appears on the screen as the lyrics do in the song) and one of the animations is the camera rotating ninety degrees while the text “WEB” slides out from the side of the rest of the text already on screen. Before, when the text was low-quality (and didn’t have the continuous rasterization) this worked perfectly fine (although, obviously, low-quality), but now the text “WEB” doesn’t show up properly, it’s like there’s a box around it, and only parts of the text show up.

    https://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=cf1dfc4ba77ffc71e3462c012be63911bec9d938...
    There’s the file, so you can see what I mean.

    How do I fix this problem? I’m a novice at After Effects, so please try to phrase it as simply as possible, or I’ll likely get all confused. Thank you for the help!

    David Johnson replied 17 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • David Johnson

    July 9, 2009 at 2:39 am

    Your link didnt work for me … just got “0 items found to display!” so it’ll be tough to determine the issue with certainty, but it sounds like the text layer has a mask on it … select that layer in the timeline and hit the letter “M” twice on your keyboard that’ll show the mask if there is one and you can just delete the mask.

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