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Text from a single line
I’m curious if anyone knows of a plugin that creates character outlines from a single line. In other words, I want to have a single line animate across the screen as if drawn, then have text morph out of the line to create a word outlined by the line that continues off screen on either side of the word.
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If I understand you correctly (which is doubtful), you’re looking to animate a stroke across a “skyline” path similar to this one:
https://www.ducey.com/Graphics/FrzLogo.gif
only with letters instead of buildings.
What I would do is create the text in a single color, say white; add a white rectangle that slightly overlaps the lower portion of the letters; auto-trace the result using Layer->Autotrace, and finally trim any unncessary portions of the resulting mask. You’ll need to decide what to do with disconnected components of the text, for instance a “T” will give you a single path but an “M” may give you two or three.
Once you have the appropraite mask, it should be a simple matter to stroke it, add glow, animate the stroke location, etc. You can use either the Stroke effect, or Vegas, or even Trapcode’s 3D stroke for some more control.
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