• Adobe After Effects

  Jarhead Text Effect

  Posted by Tyguy6a84 on December 6, 2005 at 11:48 pm

  Does anyone know a quick and simple way how to create a text effect similar to the one used for the title in the Jarhead trailer? I am talking about the way the title’s text reveals itself letter by letter.

  Rudi Nieuwenhuis replied 20 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Rudi Nieuwenhuis

  December 7, 2005 at 7:18 pm

  If you mean the characters in https://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/jarhead/ then i think you can do it as follows:

  Make a new Text.
  Animate->Scale
  unlink horizontal and vertical scale and put the horizontal scale to 0.
  In Animator 1 edit the Range Selector start of end, depending which direction you want the text to appear. Keyframe this start or end selector.

  If this all will not work for you, you can also use card wipe, as long as the character spacing is more or less uniform.

  Good luck

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