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Fill the inside of a hollow/outline font
I have a text animation (animated letters) in AFX with an “outline” font (that has no fill). There has to be a way to fill the inside of the font somehow? Are there any workarounds? I know I could manually “paint” behind the text, but that’s no option since it should be animated (sure, I could keyframe).
I could duplicate the animated text layer, add a stroke big enough. But how can I “matte” out the “overfill”? Is there an effect in AFX to take an alpha matte just from the “outside” of a layer? That would solve this issue..
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Hmm, that sounds odd. Can you post the font / tell us the name. I’m trying to see if I have a similar font, to better advise, but I can’t see an obvious one. Usually it’s a choice in the Character panel whether or not to include fill.
Have you tried Layer > Create > Create Masks / Shapes from Text
Then you would have a bit more control.
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It’s an effect I never use, but Paint Bucket, inverted fill can do something like you ask. It won’t _not_ fill the inside of an O or other enclosed shapes though.
Another approach could be with Red giant’s Alpha Cleaner -> Plug holes, with some finessing you can get values that see the insides of the outlines as a hole in the alpha, but it’ll be hard to keep the shapes antialiased.
Lastly, it might just be easier to hack the font with birdfont to make a version that isn’t outline only, if that variation doesn’t already exist.
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