[Dan Brock]

Thanks Tim,

I found the issue. I was altering an existing lower third banner
from an AE file that was made by a post house for my station.

I just went into the text layer in the original AE file and sure enough, the text layer was indeed scaled to 92%.

The moral is always check the scaling in your text layer for spec comps, especially with someone else’s file.

Thanks again!

[Dan Brock]

@John…Thank you John for your advice. Very helpful info and I will certainly give it a try.

@Les.. Answer a question with a question? one word: specify.

[Dan Brock]

Thanks for your help Jon. Your advice to do it on a path in Illustrator is easier. I was using microtype of the words “Tropical Storm” in a line of repeated words. I did figure out how to build a ring of type vertically (that is on a 90 degree angle on the x axis) in a circular shape by setting it in Photoshop on a line and saving it as a targa file. I then imported the file into AfterEffects6.5 and used that targa file as a layer map in Invigorator Pro on a 3D primitive cylindrical shape with just the sides turned on… I had to adjust the height of the cylinder as to not stretch the .tga file type. So basically, you end up seeing just the text and not the cylinder. It can be manipulated as any other object in Invigorator Pro.

I learn something every time I use Invigorator… it’s a lot of fun figuring these things out.