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Kiciuś
Kiciuś
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May 28, 2018
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Text with 0% opacity still visible

  • May 28, 2018
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What I'm trying to do seems to so simple! I finished my job in Premiere and open the footage in After Effects. I make a layer with text, apply a cool animation on it, add 2 keyframes in the "Opacity" section of the text layer. On the first one I make sure opacity is set to 100%, on the last one - 0%. When I slide the marker with the mouse, I see the number is going smoothly from 100 to 0, but when I preview - the text is always 100% visible.

So if I want to say "Hello" in the beginning of my movie, it will be there for the whole movie 🙂

Any ideas please??

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    Correct answer Dave Merchant

    Based on that screenshot, you have put your keyframes on the Opacity layer that is inside the selector - so it's affecting the animation (how is anyone's guess, as Roland says that's a whole heap of stuff going on in the selector stack). If what you want is an overall fade in/out of the entire layer, you need to apply them to the top-level Transform property (the one you just cropped off the bottom of your screenshot). Select the layer and press "T".

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    Remy5FF2
    Participant
    March 2, 2021

    Found another way, while still using the range selector within text animators.

    In my particular case, I needed the very last character (and only the that character) to fade away. I had the range selector set to affect only that character, but at 0% opacitiy I was still seeing it.

    Changing the shape did the trick! Round and smooth worked for me, with their default values of 0%. I found ramping down also attained invisibility, but it wasn't applicable for what I needed.

    Marked as solved with a proper solution above this post, which is more conventional/production friendly.

    Roland Kahlenberg
    Roland Kahlenberg
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    May 28, 2018

    I use Windows' Snipping Tool. Once you have the image copied to your Clipboard, you will only need to commit to a Paste Command on the message area, here.

    How to Use the Snipping Tool in Windows to Take Screenshots

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      Roland Kahlenberg
      Roland Kahlenberg
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      May 28, 2018

      I suggest you display the following (1) Range Selector properties (2) Text Animator properties (3) Transform>Opacity property.

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      Roei Tzoref
      Roei Tzoref
      Legend
      May 28, 2018

      show a full screenshot of your Ae interface and try to demonstrate the issue. make sure everything is fully visibile.

      Kiciuś
      KiciuśAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      May 28, 2018

      I made a screenshot but when I try to upload it it says "this image type is forbidden". I tried jpg, tif, same answer. It's just 300 kb. I'm using windows, screenshotted the typical way and cropped in AcdSee. Does anyone know why I can't upload it?

      Roei Tzoref
      Roei Tzoref
      Legend
      May 28, 2018

      try dragging the image to the text field or try copy paste a screenshot.

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