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1. Re: How do you mask text in this specific way?
Mylenium Dec 14, 2013 6:53 AM (in response to Richea)You will have to draw the shape manually e.g. using a shape layer, assign a stroke and use that layer as a matte on the otehr layer.
Mylenium
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2. Re: How do you mask text in this specific way?
Richea Dec 14, 2013 4:21 PM (in response to Mylenium)What do you mean assign a stroke? Sorry I'm not very experienced with this.
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3. Re: How do you mask text in this specific way?
Richea Dec 15, 2013 7:08 PM (in response to Richea)I'm desperate pls.
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4. Re: How do you mask text in this specific way?
Rick Gerard Dec 15, 2013 9:01 PM (in response to Richea)A google search for animating a stroke or animating a signature will bring up lots of resources. Personally I like to add a mask path to a layer above your text layer, add Effects>Generate>Stroke, set the stroke width wide enough to cover the letter, set the Paint Style to Reveal original, and then use the copy as an alpha track matte for the text layer below. It looks like you are using ray-traced 3d and extruding text. If so you will need to nest your Ray-traced 3D comp in a Standard comp to apply the track matte or use the stroke effect on your 3D layer. The set up would look like this:
Imagine the jpgs are your 3D Ray-traced pre-comp.
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5. Re: How do you mask text in this specific way?
Richea Dec 15, 2013 10:04 PM (in response to Rick Gerard)Thank you for your help. I'm not using the default extrusion anymore and have moved on to Element 3D.
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6. Re: How do you mask text in this specific way?
Richea Dec 16, 2013 3:40 AM (in response to Rick Gerard)Yeah so I've learned about this stroke effect a tad from your suggested terms to google but they're of basic 2d text. Is there a way for this to be done with text made with Element 3D?
Don't worry I manually masked everything out and am going to transform the text a bit. Thanks everyone.
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7. Re: How do you mask text in this specific way?
Rick Gerard Dec 16, 2013 4:10 AM (in response to Richea)Just the way I showed you. Pre-compose your letter, duplicate the layer, draw a mask path with the pen tool on the top layer, add stroke, animate the stroke, set the top copy as an alpha track matte.



