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Animating lines with Auto-trace

Animating lines with Auto-trace

From the course: After Effects Breakdowns: N-Trig Commercial

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Animating lines with Auto-trace

- [Voiceover] If you want to reveal text on the screen in a similar way to a handwritten text, there are a couple of options. As we saw in the previous movie, you can convert the text to masks and use the stroke effect in order to animate it, or you can use the autotrace feature. The advantages of using the autotrace feature is that one, it will keep the relationship with the original file, in this case, the Photoshop design, and two, you don't need to have the original font installed, so you can control basically the accuracy of the tracing. Meaning that you will probably end up with less masks to animate, and therefore, you can speed up their render time. This may sound like a minor thing, but in this project scale, it can actually shave a few minutes of render time from each pre-comps which we will sum to a lot of saving. So we are continuing from the same point we left off in the previous movie, and are going to delete the solid layer that After Effects generated from their live…

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