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  • expanding text in titles

    Posted by Robin Binford on February 13, 2006 at 11:56 pm

    It’s probably in a post somewhere but I’ve yet to find it so I’ll ask (again perhaps). How can I expand text in titles created in Adobe Premier Pro/After Effects (done in so many ads on TV)? I can scale the titles but to have them expand or visually kern the letters in the title is what I’m looking for. Thanks, Robin

    Robin Binford replied 20 years, 6 months ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Steven L. gotz

    February 14, 2006 at 1:46 am

    That is done in After Effects. You can animate the kerning or leading or anything you wish.

    Steven
    http://www.stevengotz.com

  • Craig Howard

    February 14, 2006 at 2:18 am

    It is possible to “expand” the text (kern & lead) in PremPro but not to animate it.

  • Mike Cohen

    February 15, 2006 at 3:01 pm

    boris grafitti will do this nicely also. I suppose if you were only doing it on a few titles in a program you could fudge it, just make each letter a separate title, stack ’em up on a separate sequence, animate, and bring that in as a clip – tedious if doing it a lot obviously.

  • Robin Binford

    February 15, 2006 at 6:45 pm

    Thanks. I had actually thought about doing this with the titles but there are several so it I thought it would be easier in After Effects. I’ve recently purchased AE so I’m not as familiar with it currently. Do you know of a tutorial that might address this?

  • Erik Pontius

    February 16, 2006 at 11:57 pm

    AE 6.5 makes this even easier as it includes Text Animations that you can apply. There is a specific animation called “increase tracking”. Then adjust the keyframes to suit…

    Erik

  • Robin Binford

    February 22, 2006 at 3:40 am

    Thanks Eric. I did try that and had success with it, however I’m having trouble making it appear with a transparent background similar to the title generator in PP. I’m simply trying to layer titles with a little more animation than just scaling. Any tips will help. Thanks again. Robin

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