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Working with text on a path

Working with text on a path - After Effects Tutorial

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Working with text on a path

The final look we're going for is for animated text to flow along a path. In this case, I have one mask path at the beginning that's inspired by the movement in the background movie. I'll press End to see the second keyframe for the mask path. I'll bring my starter comp forward again, where I have my text, and at this point, the blur is animating, along with tracking. Just so we can see things clearly, I'll turn off the eyeballs for both animators, so now we just have some plain text. I'll make sure the text layer is selected. This is very important. You can only apply text on a path if the path is actually on the text layer; the path cannot be on the background layer. But I will turn on the background, just so I can be inspired by the movement in the animation. If you don't have the exercise files, see if you can find a similar background with some nice animated shapes. So with the text layer selected, I'll select the Pen tool, and then I'll also make sure that the RotoBezier option…

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