• Adobe After Effects

  Changing Text

  Posted by Fred Matthews on June 14, 2007 at 4:01 pm

  Is there an effect that will show a word and then it cascades down to form a new word. Kind of like the Raining Characters but it changes the word from one to another on screen. The words are both five letters in length.

  Thanks

  Fred Matthews replied 18 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Darby Edelen

  June 14, 2007 at 5:13 pm

  I believe you will need to keyframe your Source Text property to achieve this.

  Darby Edelen
  DVD Menu Artist
  Left Coast Digital
  Aptos, CA
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  June 14, 2007 at 6:57 pm

  Since it’s only five characters, it’s quite easy to do it one letter at a time. One text layer for each character, using Character Offset as the Animator property. Use Echo within an Adjustment Layer to achieve the Raining effect. Goto https://www.asciitable.com to check on the values you have to input for Character Offset. As a guide for reading the table, Zero is character value 48.

  Keyframing Source Text will end up with a ‘flash’ frame when the Source Text value changes – not as elegant as it can be.

  HTH
  Roland Kahlenberg
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  Fred Matthews

  June 14, 2007 at 9:53 pm

  Thanks Roland that worked. I forget about the character offset because it isn’t a look I use much but it fit in this case.

  Thanks

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