[Elad Menashe]

I don’t have Illustrator so I cannot paste a path and check

so here are some suggestions:
1) precompose the layer and rotate the composition
2) Importing Paths into AE tutorial by Aharon Rabinowitz
3) Or this one also by Aharon Rabinowitz
4) Try rotating the path in Illustrator and then copying it

Good luck

[Elad Menashe]

use this expression on the cursor’s layer’s opacitiy:

d = 5; // number of frames the curson is on or off
v = (time / thisComp.frameDuration) % (2 * d); // will return a number between 0..(2*d -1)
if (v > d)
0
else
100;

Elad

[Elad Menashe]

Effects > Blur & Sharpen > Reduce Interlace Flicker

Elad

[Elad Menashe]

There are two options you can do that:
1) change the layer’s anchor point
2) select all the positional keyframes (click on the layer, press P and click on the position property) now drag the layer to the desired position, all other keyframes will be adjusted accordingly

Cheers
Elad

[Elad Menashe]

A good way to start is taking a font that has fixed kerning (such as courier), this will also fit your typewriter look you wish to achieve.
Then use two text layers:
1) The actual text
2) use a block character from a dingbats font (I have used Marlett and the letter ‘g’) that will have the exact structure of the actual text (each block will cover one character from the actual text)

now use an animator per layer, one will reveal the text, and the other will show the block character, only one at a time.

here’s a lousy version of what I mean.

Contact me if you need further help

Regards,
Elad

[Elad Menashe]

That’s a great idea!!!
Thanks

[Elad Menashe]

This is exactly what I meant to do.
The problem is the carriage should be moving
So I have extra 3D to deal with
I thought of having an expression to substract the carriage orientation against the camera orientation and then choose the appropriate 3d position of me, I just don’t know how to do that

Thanks

[Elad Menashe]

thanks

[Elad Menashe]

hmm. thanks for the response
I thought of all of the above suggestions
I figured that my best solution is to make the date & time in one line, it’s not that improtant that I should manually change all the subs myself.

Is there a way to let Adobe know of this bug?

[Elad Menashe]

I did
but that’s not the case, you didn’t read the problem
I have trouble importing the subtitle file since the subsequent lines (when a subtitle has more than one line) start with a number, I get import error