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ali m.r7155227
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June 3, 2017
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How to Reverse - Text / Animate In / Slow Fade On

  • June 3, 2017
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Could you please tell me how to reverse the direction of "Slow Fade On".

I'd like the text to Fade On from the right side instead of its default left side.

Image attached, thanks!

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mukhan001
Participant
September 12, 2018

I believe that the post is quite old, still wanted to give my input for the new users:

The default settings for the Animation Presets e.g. Typewriter is from left to right.

In order to change the appearance from right to left as in Arabic, Urdu or other languages.

You simply need to change settings of the Animator->Range selector

Set Start to 0

Define keyframes for the 'End' from 100 down to zero as in percentage.

Leave offset to 0.

It worked for me, hope it will work for everyone else as well.

Cheers,

Umer

    Roland Kahlenberg
    Roland Kahlenberg
    Legend
    September 12, 2018

    I wrote short article which provides for a formulaic approach to having full control over shipped Text Animation Presets or 3rd party Text Animation Presets. Here's the Cheat Sheet -

    Here's the URL to the article in PDF - http://www.broadcastgems.com/MediaServer01/RolandK_TextTool_CustomizingPresets_aFormulaicApproach_June2018.pdf

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    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    June 3, 2017

    Chnage the direction in the advanced section of the text animator/ swap start and end. Please read the help by all means. If you can't even figure out something that basic...

    Mylenium

    ali m.r7155227
    ali m.r7155227Author
    Known Participant
    June 3, 2017

    Mike_Abbott
    Mike_Abbott
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    June 3, 2017

    Thanks for your reply Mike! I did this and it worked as far as fading the text from the right side, however, the transition starts from the bottom of the text instead of the top.


    OK - I now realise you  are working with right-to-left text. Ae doesn't really support this, but the following may be a work around....

    1. Go back to your original text with no text animation at all.

    2. In the standard layer transform properties unlink the scale value and set x scale to -100%.

    3. Now apply a text animator by clicking on the 'animate' pop up menu and selecting 'scale'.

        unlink this scale property and set it's x scale to -100%.

    4. Now click back on your text layer and apply the 'slow fade on' preset - which will be an additional animator.

    This should now work right to left and top to bottom. Yes?

    However I'm not sure if your individual Arabic characters will be the correct way round. Let me know. If they are not we should be able to turn them around.

    Hope this helps.

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