Animating imported Photoshop text; Animating text using a path animation preset. Chapter Description Adobe After Effects offers many ways to animate text. Animating Text on a Path. Motion Graphics in Adobe After Effects Animation Speeds and Durations Onscreen. 03:09. Converting Photoshop.
Check out this informative video tutorial and discover how to create slick motion path text animations in After Effects! in After Effects. Animating text on a. I'm following along step by step with the Adobe After Effects Classroom in a book. I'm Animating the Text 'Directed by' along an Animation Path. Animating text using a path preset. you will enter and format your text after you apply the preset. Animating Text in Adobe After Effects CC.
New to After Effects. Animating Text Along Animation Path. Adobe After Effects. It probably started upside down because the text direction is determined by the mask's first vertex. So which ever point was the first one you created is where the text starts from. When you look at the mask path, you can see which point is the first vertex as it's a double square a filled one, surrounded by an outline.
Either create a new mask or you could buy/install this script: Reverse Mask Path. As far making the text move in the direction you would like once you get it set on the path correctly, just use the "Animate" fly out, add a "Position" animator and animate the x position. I made a simple project to illustrate the problem, in the path options toggle the masks named "first position on the right" and "first position on the left" to see what happens. Some more great resources to supplement Classroom in a book can be found here, this page with has links to a lot of free learning resources. Getting started with After Effects (CS4, CS5, CS5.
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After Effects Help | Managing and animating shape paths and masks. You animate mask paths and shape paths in much the same. Mask. Path or Path property, set paths at each keyframe, and After Effects. Rotoscoping (or just roto in. A common kind of rotoscoping. This allows. you to work with the object and the background separately, so you. Note: After Effects includes the Roto Brush and Refine Edge tools, which can be used to accomplish many of the same tasks as conventional rotoscoping, but in far less time.
For information about using the Roto Brush tool, see Roto Brush, Refine Edge, and Refine Matte. If a background or foreground object is a consistent, distinct color, you can use color keying instead of rotoscoping to remove the background or object. If the footage was shot with color keying in mind, color keying is much easier than rotoscoping. See Keying introduction and workflow.)Rotoscoping in After Effects is mostly a matter of drawing masks. Many additional tasks and techniques make this job easier. Immediately after beginning to draw a mask, press Alt+Shift+M (Windows) or Option+Shift+M (Mac OS) to turn on keyframing for that mask and set a keyframe.
This way, you won’t edit a mask frame- by- frame for several minutes (or longer) and then realize that you lost all of your work on previous frames because you forgot to click the stopwatch to make the mask path animated. Draw your masks on a white solid layer with its Video (eyeball) switch off, above the (locked) footage layer.
This way, you run no risk of accidentally moving the footage layer when you manipulate the mask, and you can also much more easily apply tracking data to the mask. You apply the tracking data to the invisible solid layer that holds the mask.) This also means that you don't lose your cached preview frames each time you manipulate the mask. See Toggle visibility or influence of a layer or property group and Lock or unlock a layer.)Turn on the Preserve Constant Vertex Count preference. See Designate the first vertex for a Bezier path.)When possible, transform (rotate, scale, move) the whole mask or a subset of the mask vertices instead of moving the vertices individually. This is both for efficiency and to avoid the chatter that comes from inconsistent movement across frames. See Move vertices in free- transform mode.)Manual motion tracking is less time- consuming than manual rotoscoping.
The more effort you spend getting good tracking data for various parts of your scene and object, the less time you'll spend drawing and fine- tuning masks. See Tracking and stabilizing motion.)In After Effects CC and CS6, use the variable- width mask feather feature for more control when feathering objects. This video from the After Effects CS5: Learn By Video series shows how to combine motion tracking and rotoscoping to isolate and selectively color- correct an actor's face.
Scott Squires provides a pair of movies on his Effects Corner website that show how to rotoscope, both painting and masking: Chris and Trish Meyer provide some tips on animating masks, including using Smart Mask Interpolation, on the Pro. Video Coalition website. Alejandro Pérez provides a script on the AE Enhancers forum with which you can use tracking data to position individual mask vertices.
Mathias Möhl provides the Key. Tweak script on his website, with which you can modify many keyframes on a property simultaneously. With Key. Tweak, you can modify a few keyframes manually, and the script modifies the remaining keyframes in between accordingly.
Key. Tweak is especially useful for Mask Path keyframes in a rotoscoping workflow. Rich Young provides several resources for rotoscoping on his After Effects Portal website. You can select shape layers and their components at any of four levels of selection, referred to as selection modes: Layer selection mode.
The entire shape layer is selected. Transformations apply to the transform properties for the layer, in the Transform property group that is at the same level as the Contents property group. Group selection mode. An entire shape group is selected.
Transformations apply to the transform properties for the group, in the Transform property group within the shape group in the Timeline panel. Free- transform mode. Multiple vertices on one or more Bezier paths are selected. A free- transform bounding box is shown around the vertices in the Composition panel. By operating on this box, you can move multiple vertices with a single transformation. Transformations apply to the vertices themselves, which are contained within the Path property in the Timeline panel. Path- editing mode.
Only vertices are selected. In this mode, you can perform path- editing operations, such as adding vertices to a path and moving individual vertices. When a pen tool is active, path- editing mode is active. To remain in path- editing mode, select the Pen tool; press V or Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) to temporarily activate the Selection tool as needed. Selection modes for shapes on shape layers. A. Layer selection B.
Free- transform D. Select. masks, segments, and vertices. Press. Ctrl+A (Windows) or Command+A (Mac OS) with a shape vertex selected to. Press again to select all shapes. Press again to select all layers.
Click the layer name or layer. Timeline panel. Using the Selection tool, click within the layer bounds. Composition panel. To deselect all shapes on a layer but leave the shape. To specify the size of Bezier. Edit. > Preferences > General (Windows) or After Effects > Preferences. General (Mac OS), and edit the Path Point Size value.
To select a vertex, click the vertex. Selection tool. To add vertices to the selection, Shift- click. To select a path segment, click the segment with the. Selection tool. To add segments to the selection, Shift- click them. To select an entire path, Alt- click (Windows) or Option- click.
Mac OS) a segment or vertex of the path with the Selection tool. Ctrl+A (Windows) or. Command+A (Mac OS). To select vertices by dragging, select a path or portion. To add. vertices to the selection, hold down the Shift key as you draw additional. Double- click a path segment. Select the Path property in the Timeline panel and press.
Ctrl+T (Windows) or Command+T (Mac OS). Unlike layers, masks can have more than one. You can select a mask as a whole path, which. However. if you want to change the path of a mask, select one or more points. Selected points appear solid, and unselected points appear.
To specify the size of Bezier direction. Edit > Preferences. General (Windows) or After Effects > Preferences > General. Mac OS), and edit the Path Point Size value. To select a vertex on a mask. Selection tool . To. Shift- click them.
To select a mask segment, click the segment with the. Selection tool. To add segments to the selection, Shift- click them.
To select an entire mask, Alt- click (Windows) or Option- click. Mac OS) a segment, vertex, or handle of a mask with the Selection. Edit > Select. All or press Ctrl+A (Windows) or Command+A (Mac OS). To add masks. to the selection, Alt+Shift- click (Windows) or Option+Shift- click.
Mac OS) them. To select masks by dragging, select a mask or portion. Selection. tool to draw a marquee- selection box completely around the vertices. To add masks or vertices to the. Shift key as you draw additional marquee- selection. To select all masks on a layer, select a mask on the.
Edit > Select All or press Ctrl+A (Windows). Command+A (Mac OS). To deselect all masks, press Ctrl+Shift+A (Windows) or. Command+Shift+A (Mac OS). To select an adjacent mask on a layer, press Alt+accent. Windows) or Option+accent grave (`) (Mac OS) to select. Shift+Alt+accent grave (`) (Windows) or Shift+Option+accent.
Mac OS) to select the previous mask. To deselect a mask, click anywhere other than on the. To remove a vertex or segment from a selection, Shift- click. To use the Selection tool when the Pen. Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS).
Click the right arrow next to a layer. Click the right arrow next to the Masks heading to expand. Do any of the following: To select one mask, click its name. To select a contiguous range of masks, Shift- click. To select discontiguous masks together, Ctrl- click. Windows) or Command- click (Mac OS) the names of any masks you want. Note: You can select only whole masks in the Timeline panel.
To select individual vertices on a mask, use the Composition or. Layer panel. Locking a mask prevents you from selecting. Timeline, Composition, and Layer panels or setting it. Layer panel. Use this feature to avoid unwanted. In the Timeline panel, expand the Masks property.
In the A/V Features column, click the box underneath. Lock icon next. to the mask you want to lock or unlock.
A mask is locked and cannot. Lock switch is selected—that is, when the Lock. Note: To unlock multiple masks at one time, select one or.
Layer > Mask > Unlock. All Masks. To isolate selected masks and. Layer > Mask > Lock Other Masks, and then. Layer > Mask Hide Locked Masks. You can scale and rotate an entire mask or.
Free Transform Points command. When you use this command, a free- transform. You can scale and rotate the.
You. can also change the reference point from which the vertices are. The free- transform. Note: When you animate. Free Transform Points, the vertices of the mask are. For this. reason, the results may be different from what you expect. Display the layer containing the paths that you. Composition or Layer panel.
Using the Selection tool, do one of the following: To transform any number of vertices, select. Layer > Mask. And Shape Path > Free Transform Points. To transform an entire mask or shape path, select. Timeline panel and choose Layer > Mask And Shape Path. Free Transform Points. To move the anchor point of the bounding box, place the. Selection tool over the bounding box anchor point until.
Selection tool changes to a move anchor point icon . Drag. to position the anchor point. Do any combination of the following: To move the path or selected vertices.