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Subject: After Effects Question

EagleWing1000 opened this issue on Jun 09, 2009 · 11 posts

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EagleWing1000 ( ) posted Tue, 09 June 2009 at 12:01 PM · edited Tue, 03 September 2024 at 12:45 AM

Ok for some reason there isn't from what I Can see, an After Effects forum on Renderosity so I hope you don't mind me posting this simple question here....

I am looking to create this text effect in AE CS4.

I can do the gradient using a Ramp Effect. But how to do make the stroke around the text..

is the only way to do this by duplicating the layer and using Matte Choker?

Thanks
EW

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CaptainJack1 ( ) posted Tue, 09 June 2009 at 6:11 PM

I don't know the answer to your question, as I don't have After Effects (yet... it's on my wishlist, but probably for next year). However, I wanted to mention that, if you don't find an answer here, there's a pretty active After Effects forum at www.CreativeCow.com; actually, there's four, but I don't know what all they cover. If you go there and click on the forums link, you should be able to go right to it.

stew451 ( ) posted Tue, 09 June 2009 at 6:22 PM

I do believe if you go to your character panel there is an option for stroke just like in Illustrator.

graphicnovel ( ) posted Tue, 09 June 2009 at 10:09 PM

to make the stroke around the text .... if you created the text in ae, then when you click on text it should appear a box with text option on your right side, however if you create a text in ai or ps than you can import it to ae and work with it as an image, if you do have the master package than just use the dynamic link.....
hope that helps...
vince

EagleWing1000 ( ) posted Wed, 10 June 2009 at 10:00 AM

THanks guys, I will check out Creative Cow forums.

For some reason you can't in AE have a Ramp (gradient) applied to the text AND utilise the Stroke effect, the moment you apply the stroke effect it removes the ramp.

@Graphicnovel:
What/where do I find that Dynamic Link thingy?

Cheers guys.
EW

Dell XPS M1730
Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 2.6Ghz
500GB (2x 250GB) RAID 1 Sata HDD
4GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 9800M GTX SLI

graphicnovel ( ) posted Wed, 10 June 2009 at 5:38 PM

hullo ew, dynamic link is a part of the adobe master suit, meaning one has to have the whole goddammed thing to have it.... it is most usefull if you use more than one adobe program and use them at once, such as ilustrator, photoshop, ae and premiere, (my case) however adobe does have other special packages wtih different prices, I don´t know if the dynamic link is in all of them.... , still check out adobe package. you can message me at any time on msn.
graphicnovel@hotmail.com
hope that helps
vince