LiveType and LiveFonts

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi there!

2 Totally different things:

AE Text presets are a way to animate individual characters/words/lines in a text:
their color, position, scale, rotation, opacity etc.

The LiveFonts are collections of quicktime movies: one for each character of the alphabet, that can each be for example a flower morphing to a letter, or a particle system that creates the shape of a digit etc.
All those quicktime movies are bundled together and used as if they were a regular font by the liveType application.

But it’s just a clever way of combining all those quicktime movies.
Actually if you look at the LiveFont in os X as a package (ctrl-click -> show package contents), you can copy those individual quicktimes and do some clever combining in AE yourselve 😎

[John Davies]

Thanks Filip. I didn’t get that from looking at the examples on the Apple website the first time.

Then I went back and understood much better.