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After Effects — Vegas Effects and Animating Text with Range Selectors
I recently ran into the comprehensive tutorial to make animated texts using the vegas effects and few other tricks by Avnish Parker. For this week’s assignment for the After Effects class at the SVA, I wanted to explore the way to combine this trick with animating texts using the range selector, which I learned in my recent class. This entry is to share key steps I took to create the animations below, but for more detailed tutorial, please see the video by Avnish Parker at the end of this entry.
Adding multiple Vegas Effects
Step 1. Create text outline by making the blend mode transparent
Find the Vegas Effect and apply it to a composition with some text.
Set the blend mode to transparent to create the outline of the text. Customize the look by changeing colors, width, or other properties (adding too much width could lose the sharpness). By making the segment and the end opacity values to 1, the outline becomes a continuous line rather than chopped.
