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Write-on Effect?
Does anybody have a nifty trick to do a write-on effect? i need to do a simple signature, but masking it out by hand seems like a nightmare. The paint write-on option is no good as I can’t write my own name legibly, much less someone else’s. Any tricks or plug-ins?
Thanks
Travis -
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Try this: using the pen tool, draw an open mask that follows the line of the signature. If the imaginary writer has to lift his pen at some point, just finish the first mask and start a new one. Make sure you draw in the same order and direction as the imaginary writer would.
Next, apply effect>render>stroke, set to “all masks”. Animate the effect’s end point from 0 to 100 to make it “draw” the signature.Hope that helps,
Steve -
Amazingly our very own COW head has a tutorial that should set you up rather well – &page=/articles/dickinson_john/handwritten_text/index.html” TARGET=_blank>https://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=
&page=/articles/dickinson_john/handwritten_text/index.html HTH
RoRK -
You also could do it that way:
If you doubleclick on a layer you get into a special window ( I don’t know the name, but I think you know what I mean). And there you have an eraser tool and I just startet at 0:00 to erase the last bit, that at 0:50 I took out more of it, and it was quiete fast because Of the Interpolation between the points You can always make bigger parts at one time. And after that you go back into your comp window and just reverse it.
Done.
Maybe that’s a better way for you.
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Thanks a lot, guys.
-Travis
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