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Morph type weights

Morph type weights - After Effects Tutorial

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Morph type weights

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- [Eran] Hey everyone, Eran Stern here, with another After Effects Weekly episode. In this one, we'll start to explore advanced text animators. In a few moments, you will know how to create this title bag, all made from live text. So I'll start with the word shout, presented to you in Avenir Next ultra light and it's kind of important, though not mandatory to start with a light weight of a font. This is because we want to morph the letters to a bold version of it. Now I must stress that this is not going to be the official bold version of the font, but more of a fore word. However, since it will animate on screen, I'm going to argue that you won't notice the difference. So the first and most important step is to make sure that you apply some kind of a stroke to the type. In this case, I'll go with one pixel and I'm going to use the same white color. Now the next step will be to open up the text properties in the timeline and add an animator. And since we want to morph between the…

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