• Adobe After Effects

  How to Animate Stroke in Text

  Posted by Sp_key on October 11, 2006 at 2:03 pm

  Hi all,

  I have imported some text with Outer Glow and Stroke settings from Photoshop into AE. Text was imported rasterized with only the Outer Glow settings and not the Stroke. Anyway, I managed to create a new text layer in AE and I now have the text I want. Still though, I cannot find how to Stroke them!

  Sorry for the basic of the question, as you may already have guessed I am new to this.

  Thanks in advance

  Jimmy Brunger replied 19 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Chris Smith

  October 11, 2006 at 6:11 pm

  This tut will show you the process:

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/hansen_jaysen/growing/index.html
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  Jimmy Brunger

  October 12, 2006 at 1:23 pm

  I think sp_key was just wanting to stroke around the edge of the text (Like in photoshop? – Annoying that AE doesn’t keep PS styles isn’t it!?)

  If so, and you are running AE7 then if you look on your text palette you will see two overlapping colour boxes. (like in Illustrator/PS) The one with the border is your stroke colour and there should be a bunch of other animatable parameters for it there too. If you’re in AE5.5 then you’ll need to goto: effects>stylize>stroke.

  If it was animating a layer on via a stroke reveal then ignore me and listen to the other guy! (Great tutorial that btw – you should watch it anyway)

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