Text in Mask Shape

[Jonathan Alexander]

I tried to fool around with the text path settings, but all that seems to do is write along the contour of the path. I am trying to have the text fill up the shape of the mask. Say I had a triangle mask, the text would fill it up in the shape of a triangle from the top point to the bottom base, the lines of text getting wider and wider as it goes down. Does that make sense, can this be done with path text? Just curious. Thanks!

–Jonathan

[Mike Clasby]

Make your text with the text tool.
Double click the Rectangle Mask Tool to make a mask (Mask 1)around your text.
Make the New Mask Shape (Mask 2)that you want the letters to shape too.
Distort>Reshape
Source Mask: Mask 1
Destination Mask: Mask 2
Boundary Mask: use Mask 2 if the new shape is quite a bit larger than the original text.
Percent 100%

See this tut on Morphing in AE for details on adjusting the correspondence points, they make all the difference.
But a quick tip is you’ll see two white squares one on mask 1, another on Mask 2, pull one or the other around on the mask until one is on top of the other, and the text shape will change how it fits into the new mask, the tut goes into detail on adding and adjusting correspondence points, but with text it shouldn’t be a big problem, so two might do fine.

Morphing In After Effects by Chris Zwar
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/zwar_chris/morph/index.html