• Adobe After Effects

  word transforming into antoher word

  Posted by Arno De facq on September 9, 2014 at 3:05 pm

  Hi
  I’d like to know how to create the following effect:
  https://youtu.be/0ObMMRcu0qk?t=1m20s

  The text transforms into another text, but it doesn’t just fade, it actually transforms (or it at least looks like that).
  Any idea how this was done?
  (also: the text being written, is that a particular effect also?)

  Arno De facq replied 12 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Cuevas

  September 10, 2014 at 11:32 am

  If you mean at 1:20(please provide a time code next time), it’s done by using a single mask to write the first words and enabling a mask path. If it was me, the next thing I would do is create another mask and write out my next word, set a keyframe, then copy that keyframe to my first mask. Then just apply Generate Stroke for the writing.

  If you have a wacom, you could even use motion sketch to create your words, copy the position keyframes then paste them into the mask properties on a new layer. I tried that with the word capture in this very rush and hurried example. But it should illustrate the technique: 7970_wordtransform.aep.zip

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  Thinkck.com

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  Arno De facq

  September 10, 2014 at 7:13 pm

  I though I put a timecode, it seems I forgot, sorry about that!

  and yes, that’s the very basic that should maker it work, perfect! thanks for the file, I understand perfectly now!

  I’ll probably be able to use this trick for other tricks.

  Thanks again!

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