• Adobe After Effects

  Motion Graphic Template: How to use different font styles in one MGT text line

  Posted by Marlon Bos on August 18, 2020 at 3:27 pm

  Hi dear all, my brain is crunching, but I can’t think of a solution. Hopefully someone here can help me out.

  I’m designing title animations in AE, and export them as Motion Graphic Templates. If I import and use them in Premiere, I can change the actual text, but can’t change the style (bold or light) per word.

  I can ‘Enable Custom Font selection,’ but then the whole line of text changes. I want to be able to change just one or more words from for example a light to a bold style.

  I’m thinking of an AE expression on the text layer that finds and replace the style of words starting with for example the sign @. But I can’t get it done. Also tried Animators & Selector that search for words starting with @ and change the stroke width creating a faux bold style, which works, but then I’m not able to hide the @-sign..
  I can change the style with an expression, but only all the text, and not just a (couple of) words..

  Is there a way?

  I’ll keep trying though ☺ Will let you all know if I found something! Thx!

  Filip Vandueren replied 6 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Cuevas

  August 18, 2020 at 4:05 pm

  I just created a mogrt for a company and ran into the same problem as you. The best solution I came up with is to create a separate precomp for every line of text. It was the only way that gave me the ability to have different fonts and font sizes. Fortunately for me, I was just creating a lower third-so I only needed 3 precomps.

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  ThinkCK

  “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
  —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.
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  Filip Vandueren

  August 18, 2020 at 6:20 pm

  Here’s my solution for HTML-parsing a text, as previously posted on the cow.

  https://we.tl/t-uWFHgVPymS (now updated for Javascript engine)

  If you write a text like:

  hello crazy world.

  The expression will apply the text-animator named “b” to everything between and

  You can create as many different tags and text-animators as you need.

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