signature animation

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Simple way: Motion Tab-

Use the “Crop” (Right Crop) so that the signature starts wiped off the screen (not seen), then reveal it over a few seconds time using the keyframes.
This will certainly look like the straight-edged wipe that it is, but won’t take too long to accomplish.

Complex way: Animated reveal-

Start with the full signature and carefully build a SERIES of “cover-up “frames that (one-at-a-time) BLACKS-OUT (covers up) the signature…
But starting at the END of the signature and working FORWARD.
So each successive frame blacks out a tiny bit more of the signature until (at last) the signature is fully “blacked-out.

Then “stack” these cover-up frames in REVERSE ORDER (one, two or three frames duration EACH, in length) so that they “play” (animate) in FCP.

They will NOW (animating in the reverse order they were created) UN-COVER the signature starting at the FRONT.

Very realistic, very long time to create.

[Chris Poisson]

This is one of the best ways to do this. FCP is NOT the right tool for this.

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It can also be done in AE with the paint tools, but the above is much easier IMO.

Have a wonderful day.

[Alexander Gao]

I believe that it would be quite simple if you have after effects and illustrator. Just get some text on a composition in illustrator first. Then, go into the text menu and make the text just a mask’s path. Then just click on the layer and copy, and i believe it will automatically copy the mask. Then create a new solid in after effects, and paste the mask shape onto the solid, and also apply the write-on effect and paste the mask into the position attribute of the write on effect. Tinker around with that a little.

Alexander Gao

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