• Adobe After Effects

  Words fit to a curved path – making them straight – like on a line

  Posted by Jim Collins on June 21, 2007 at 3:21 am

  Is there an easy way in AE7 to have a series of 5 – 7 moving words circle a shere with the words curved to match the sphere and have the curved words “fly out” and be straight and then return to being curved on the sphere. I get words that are not curved with a sphere to do this – just can’t figure out how to do it with words fit to a curved path. Looking for an easy way!!

  Thanks
  JJC

  JJC

  Mike Clasby replied 19 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Mike Clasby

  June 21, 2007 at 6:56 am

  Try CC Cylinder. Do two instances of CC Cylinder (one Inside, one Outside) if you want the curved text to circle another layer.

  To make it unroll from curved to flat I’d try duplication the text layer, no CC Cylinder therfore flat, and matching the movement with a mask where it turns from curved to flat text.

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