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  typing text effect

  Posted by Josef Brett on April 10, 2005 at 12:18 pm

  Firstly, I am sorry if there is already a post on this. I’ve been trying to search the posts but I have had a few problems in doing so. My question is, is there anyway of animating an effect that looks like text is typing on screen over a period of time. I know about source text, but was wondering if there was a quicker way, because I have a lot of text to type!

  Thanks,

  Joe

  Josef Brett replied 21 years ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Storm Crow

  April 10, 2005 at 12:53 pm

  Just type your text in the comp and then drag and drop in from the text effect window the effect called “typewriter”. Not sure what version you have but that effect is in 6.5 Pro.
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  April 10, 2005 at 7:17 pm

  [Storm Crow] “text effect window the effect called “typewriter”.”

  But if you’d like to have a cursor, look for the Text Animation Presets Wordprocessor. You’ll find it within the Multi-line category.

  Cheers
  Roland Kahlenberg

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  Josef Brett

  April 10, 2005 at 9:06 pm

  Thanks, but I’m using v6-I forgot to mention that!
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  Serge Hamad

  April 10, 2005 at 11:36 pm

  Hi,

  You could still use the good old Text Path and animate the “Visible Characters” parameter under “Advanced.

  Salut.
  Serge
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  Josef Brett

  April 12, 2005 at 3:21 pm

  Thank you all!

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