AE Type Q 88 Responses

Last post: 5 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Jun 26, 08, 4:06 p.m.

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• Meeklo

  I would like to simulate the text you see when you regular tv with captions, not the ones on a movie for example.

  The difference is that (depending on the tv) the majority has a black rectangle behind the letters, since I have to type a lot of crap, I was wondering if anyone knew how to achieve this directly in after effects.

  

  So the rectangle behind the type, adapts to the content, not sure if I'm being clear enough..

  Jun 26, 08, 4:06 p.m. – Permalink

• Meeklo

  anyone?

  

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  Dog-earJun 26, 08, 4:27 p.m. – Permalink

• MrOneHundred

  It’s a stab in the dark, but when I need to do this in InDesign I set up a style sheet and get the black rectangle by fudging the Underline feature. Not sure if AE has this much functionality with type, but it’s worth a look.

  

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  Dog-earJun 26, 08, 4:32 p.m. – Permalink

• Meeklo

  it may work..
  can you explain?

  

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  Dog-earJun 26, 08, 4:33 p.m. – Permalink

• MrOneHundred

  

  This should do it. Let me know if this makes no sense.

  • not sure if this is possible in AE– Meeklo

  

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  Dog-earJun 26, 08, 4:47 p.m. – Permalink

• oozie

  some expression that makes the size of a solid the size of the type as you type maybe or some way in illustrator

  • yeah..– Meeklo

  

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  Dog-earJun 26, 08, 4:47 p.m. – Permalink

• MrOneHundred

  Let us know what you come up with.

  

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  Dog-earJun 26, 08, 6:53 p.m. – Permalink

• Meeklo

  I'm just adding a black stripe by hand, behind every line..
  it won't be animated, it sucks, but I don't know how to do it otherwise and animating every single like will take too long

  

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  Dog-earJun 26, 08, 7:42 p.m. – Permalink

• Jnr_Madison

  I don't know much about AE but maybe the Boris FX TitleToolkit would do it?

  • just checked the price, quite expensive just for this.– Jnr_Madison1/2

    thanks madison, I don't want to spend a single $ for this though..
    not worth it– Meeklo2/2

  

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  Dog-earJun 26, 08, 7:51 p.m. – Permalink