Font ‘Breaking’ problem on scale/position in AE CS4

[Angelo Lorenzo]

I don’t know if I’d trust the quality of fonts from free sources. While commercial fonts are insanely priced, they do come with a lot more “under the hood” information than hobbyist fonts.

Since AE doesn’t handle keyframing font size directly (or at least not the animation of it), have you tried nesting the text layer and then animating the size of the nested composition? That’s a quick fix that shouldn’t disrupt your comp as a whole.

– Angelo Lorenzo
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[Alex Mann]

Hi Angelo,

Yeah totally understand what you’re saying, it just becomes rather a tearful moment when you’ve got to pay such big bucks for a font that you’re just using for a 3-word subtitle.

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll try this out.

Best wishes.

[Walter Soyka]

Adobe has a document on troubleshooting font problems [link] that you might find helpful.

Another option (if you don’t need text-specific AE features) might be setting your type in Illustrator and importing the AI file.

Finally, most of the “free” fonts do have commercial restrictions. Double-check the license terms to make sure you’re in compliance.

Myfonts.com has quite a few really well-made, low-cost specialty fonts from boutique foundries. You might find something that suits your project well.

Walter Soyka
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