Text Color and Scale Change After Effects Animation

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February 6, 2021
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Hey,

Not sure what the proper name would be for this effect but I made a text color and scale change highlight animation for a past presentation in Premiere where the text fades in, portions of each line/paragraph turn red then scale up while the rest of the body dims. The only way I knew how to achieve this was to stack text layers on top of each other using fades and black mattes.

I am now attempting to recreate this animation with one text box in AE using range selectors for each effect. It looked good until I started scaling the words up. As you can see in image 1 and image 2 when normal blending is selected the highlighted text is translucent overlapping the text succeeding my selection range. If I choose different blending options it reverses the problem (text overlapping before selection range) or the selection is slightly translucent but not fully solid.

Is there a way to disable this transparency or am I going about this animation wrong?

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angie_taylor

Legend

You just need to add a seperate Range Selector for each instance of RGB color and Scale. Then you can use Anchor Point Grouping to adjust the Scale direction. You can then use simple expressions to link them to Expression Control Sliders, or Master Properties in a main comp.

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Rick Gerard

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I would not resort to separate layers for each layer. All you have to do is add enough animators and adjust the smoothness settings. Set smoothness to zero and colors will change every time a character is revealed by the range selector. the color fade will disappear. Your opacity problem will go away. Carefully check out this screenshot. All that was required was to set 3 keyframes with the first keyframe offset 2 frames and the first and 3rd keyframe identical. The animation changes the color of the last word every 6 frames with no fade.

That screenshot shows all of the modified settings for the text layer. You can duplicate the comp in about 5 minutes.

I have built hundreds of very complex text animations that have several Animators. I think my max was about 12 of them.

Mylenium

Legend

Such issues typically boil down to tweaking the falloff types in the Advanced section of the animators. However, in this case you are probably falling for the "over-optimization trap", anyway. This strikes me as a case of "Why even bother?" It's not in any way more flexible or versatile than just using duplicated/ separated layers and unless you rig it up with expressions, it's not even particularly re-usable. Perhaps indeed this is the wrong approach.

Mylenium

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CarrottvisionAuthor

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I always seem to fall for this trap. Yeah I think I’m going to stick to layers.

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