Animated Cursive Text

Filmmaker wrote on 11/20/2005, 8:36 AM
My girlfriend and i recently broke up. i didnt know how devastated she was until i went to see her yesterday and i am making a video for her of us the past few years. I really want the opening text to be a cursive but animated. This is going to be hard to explain but i am hoping someone will understand. I want the cursive text to one letter after another appearing on the screen but since its cursive, the letters have to connect. i dont want it to be one letter then another with a sudden appearance, it has to flow into each other. I cannot explain this very well but someone please help me i need this done by this wednesday (11/23) before she leaves for florida. THANK YOU

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DrLumen wrote on 11/20/2005, 3:48 PM
It takes a bit of work, but it can be done.

There is an article at Vasst on how to do it. The last time I checked this file there were required file(s) missing. In short you create a grayscale file of the writing with the darkest (not black) to the lightest (not white) from the start of the pen stroke to the end pen stroke. Then, use a threshold mask effect.

The sample veg is at...
http://www.vasst.com/resource.aspx?id=6a527eaf-afca-4119-bb69-3e2f54ea8e0c

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