• Adobe After Effects

  Writing on question

  Posted by Adampglover on June 12, 2007 at 6:23 pm

  Hi Guys,

  I’m trying to animate some text using the write on effect…I’ve watched a couple of tutorials on here and have got the basic idea, my problem is this…

  I have a number of words that I have on one layer that need writing on, I can successfully get the first mask to write on well, the problem I have is with the second mask. Once I’ve pasted the mask shape into the brush position of the effect it is all good so far, then I change it to “reveal original” when I do this my previous effect of writing on the first word dissapears, I don’t mean from the effects box, but from my comp window.

  Any ideas?

  Cheers

  Adam

  Darby Edelen replied 18 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Darby Edelen

  June 17, 2007 at 10:45 pm

  If you’re working with masks then I would recommend applying the masks to the same layer that you are trying to reveal, and using the Generate>Stroke effect (set to reveal original) instead of the Write-On effect.

  As you know, the Write-On effect uses position keyframes/motion paths (which is great if you’re using Motion Sketch), the Stroke effect uses masks instead of position keyframes so you can skip copying and pasting the masks into motion paths, thereby eliminating what can be a costly middle-man.

  Darby Edelen
  DVD Menu Artist
  Left Coast Digital
  Aptos, CA

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