Trouble with morphing a text font to another

[Envisionlearning]

Hi, this is my first time using morphing so i'm really new to this in after effects. I've seen a number of tutorials of morphing a word to another word but not from one font to another. The transformation is all messed up, i just wanted to make it look smoother and i don't understand how to know which point i am suppose to apply the first vertex to. Please help me 😞

[Mylenium]

This goes way beyond defining first vertices. Your whole workflow appears inadequate. For this sort of thing you cannot rely on automatically converted text contours or traced masks or whatever it is you are using. You have to clean up the contours in Illustrator in the first place and check the integrity of the paths there. And that's pretty much all there is to say about the matter. You have to put in the work in AI and only then import or copy & paste your stuff into AE. You can't fix in AE what was not right in the first place. Well, you can, but only the hard way as you already found out. You might also consider @Rick Gerard's favorite trick of creating a blend in AI, expanding it and copy & pasting the inbetween steps as keyframes into AE for a smoother sequence. In any case, at least 70 % of the solution relates to prepping your work in Illustrator, regardless of what approach you take.

Mylenium

[Envisionlearning]

ohhh that sounds like i have to redo the whole thing if i wanna do this thing right. Thank you tho! i roughly understand what you mean now and i'll have a look on Rick Gerard's one too!

[Rick Gerard]

Here's one of my tutorials on preparing artwork for animating in Illustrator:

Here is my another one:

Hope this helps.