Text Tracking / Kern Animation
by Shawn Hamer (shamer)
on
Mar 23, 2008 at 10:58:03 pm
I searched & searched, but couldn't find the answer I'm looking for, which surprises me considering how glaring this problem is:
Animating tracking (with or without Animator preset) always gives very un-smooth results. Each letter appears to move at slightly different times. Heck, if you step through the timeline in AE you can see it doing it. Am I the only person in the universe who doesn't know how to fix this?
Re: Text Tracking / Kern Animation by Joseph Springer on Mar 24, 2008 at 5:24:33 pm
One think to remember is that Tracking is the space between the all the letters, while Kerning is for only specific letter pair combinations, like a capital T next to a lowercase "o" might look like it is farther apart then other letter pair combinations.
"Kerning is used primarily to fit capital letters, such as T, V, W, and Y, closer to some other capital letters on either side (especially A) and to some minuscule letters on the right side, such as the combination Ro. It is also used to fit a period (full stop) closer to these and to F, as well as the minuscule letters y and r. Some other combinations are AC, FA, and OA."
Also try ratcheting up the Motion Blur and see if that can conceal the problem. Hope that is helpful..
