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Texacty and Effects?
I’d really like to use an animator to select text that I want to selectively apply a blur to. Is doesn’t look like it’s possible. Is it? It there a work around?
Andy
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3 Replies
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AE 7 has a blur animator. To apply other effects selectively, use duplicates of your text as luma mattes. By colorizing white text with a black fill animator you should be able to do whatever you need.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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to animate each letter, use the range finders in the text animator drop down menu. for the first letter, drag the range finders to just select that letter, create your animation for that letter, then once you are happy with how it looks, duplicate the animator however many times for each letter in the text. then offset the timing of each letter by sliding each animator forward in time so that you have your text animating down the line. takes a little to figure out, but once you see how the animators and range finders work, it’s a charm. for the word “COW” i would create a text animator and set the range value to just include the “C” and then animate the letter. then i would dup that animator, manually shift the range finder to just include the “O” and shift the timing keyframes to the right some, and then repeat same for the “W”, and the “COW” comes to life letter by letter..
GL
Todd Morgan
Creative Director
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Good tip. Thank you.
Andy
P.S. I’m running 6.5, which doesn’t seem to have the blur as an animator, but I think I can make the track-matte work.
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