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Text Animator Easing
Hi. I’m working with a text animator and I’m having a tough time figuring out how to ease the animation of individual characters. For example, lets say I was animating the word “ANIMATION,” letter by letter from left to right. I want to scale each letter from 100% to 120%. Is there a way to have the scaling ease in to 120% rather than linearly going from 100-120? Correct me if I’m wrong, but the “ease high” and “ease low” properties only control the easing of the selectors, and not of the (in the example) scaling text.
Is there no way to do what I’m trying to do? I’m using CS3, is this an upgrade in CS4? Thanks.
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I also find this confusing, but smoothness, ease high, and ease low will allow you to do this, although not especially intuitively. Controlling the speed of the selector controls how quickly it applies a property to a character and this, in essence, controls the speed of the animation of the character. It takes a lot of experimenting with the values for me to get an acceptable result also. It would be great if it could be represented graphically in a future version.
You may have already read this, but here is the text from AE help:
Smoothness Determines the amount of time the animation takes to transition from one character to another when you use the Square shape.
Ease High and Ease Low Determines the speed of change as selection values change from fully included (high) to fully excluded (low). For example, when Ease High is 100%, the character changes more gradually (eases into the change) while it is fully to partially selected. When Ease High is -100%, the character changes quickly while it is fully to partially selected. When Ease Low is 100%, the character changes more gradually (eases into the change) while it is partially selected to unselected. When Ease Low is -100%, the character changes quickly while it is partially selected to unselected.
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Hey Jason. Thanks for the response. That’s pretty much what I expected to hear. Although as you said doing it this way does, in a way, make it possible to accomplish what I’m trying to do, it does seem like there should be a better/more intuitive way. Anyone know if this is one of the things that changed in CS4?
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[Jeff Klein] “Anyone know if this is one of the things that changed in CS4?”
It is not.
Darby Edelen
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