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tracking for text that has been outlined in AI?
Hello, all. I have an AI .eps file of some text that I need to bring into AE and then have the line tracking increase over time. Since it’s no longer editable text, I can’t apply the text animation preset to do the track, and I think there must be a simple way to do this with an expression(s), but any suggestions? Seems like a simple problem, but I’m a bit stumped for the moment…
Thanks,
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You should just do your text in AE. To animate the tracking of text from illustrator you’d have to separate each letter as a separate layer and animate each of their positions. You could setup an expression at this point to help with this but i personally dont think it’s worth the trouble considering how easy it is to work with text natively in AE.
-Lloyd
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I’d love to do it all in AE. But the client handed over the AI file where they’ve basically hand-painted each of the letters in the text. Can’t replicate it in AE even given the normal font. But so, yeah, I guess the only way is to animate each of the “letters” individually? Argh.
W
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as stated, get every letter on a seperate layer,
– Create a Null, and place it where you want the tracking to center around. (In most cases, that would be at the center of the word)
– give the null a Slider Expression Control called “Tracking”
– parent all the letters to the null
– Give all the letter-layers this expression for position:
tracking=thisComp.layer("Null 8").effect("Tracking")("Slider");
[value[0]*(1+tracking/100) , value[1]];
Now , just change or animate the slider.
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Fantastic! Thanks so much, Filip. That works great.
Cheers,
Will
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