• Adobe After Effects

  Tracking issues when Scaling Text

  Posted by Andy Devries on February 4, 2008 at 11:43 pm

  Hello,

  I’ve found that when I animate the scale property of text with per character 3-D enabled (and probably without it enabled), my tracking becomes extremely condensed. I then have to compensate by animating the tracking. Is there a good way to avoid this? animate the character size instead of scaling?

  Thanks a lot, creativecow is a fantastic resource for me.

  andy

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  Lisa Kwon

  February 5, 2008 at 3:40 am

  Hello:

  I’ve never seen this issue before, but my 3D light that is affecting vector layers is causing strange vertical shadow lines on its surface. (only rotating on its x axis) A friend recommended rastering all layers but unfortunately, I am too far into an HD uprez to consider this an option.

  I have tried to move the lights to reduce this but it has not solved the problem overall.

  – My shadow map is 4000 pixels and it was solving the problem but not all the time

  – And when I add another light to kill the shadow, it simply causes more issues.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated

  lisak
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  Andy Devries

  February 5, 2008 at 8:08 am

  just to clarify, when scaling text smaller, the tracking is expanded, not condensed. Essentially, the letterforms are being scaled individually instead of as a word. this creates huge gaps in between each letter when they are scaled down. HELP! thanks.

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