• Adobe After Effects

  Circular news ticker?

  Posted by Kane Daniel on September 3, 2019 at 5:48 am

  Is there any way to get a long, news ticker style line of text on a path? I want to have text move around a circle, but have the amount of text longer than the circle could display at one time, if that makes sense.

  Right now I have used some extremely wide and thin comps applied to a path using the Omino snake plugin but it warps and distorts the text in unpleasant ways when I would prefer it to be as crisp and typographic as possible.

  You can see how it’s currently looking here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g66q6grcy43b61s/new-order-o_1.mp4?dl=0

  Any suggestions on how to mitigate the ugliness of where the text begins/ends also appreciated!

  Kane Daniel replied 6 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Graham Quince

  September 8, 2019 at 7:00 am

  If you pre-comp your text layer, you can have the text as long as you want and only the text visible in the comp’s width will be wrapped around the circle.

  Here’s a screenshot showing what I mean:
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/esjtzopqvzgstxh/text%20circle.PNG?dl=0

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  Kane Daniel

  September 9, 2019 at 1:21 am

  Thanks! So simple. Slapping myself in the face I didn’t think of doing it that way.

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