Create Cool 3D Text with Trapcode Form

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Tim Clapham

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In this Episode of Red Giant TV, Hypa TV's Tim Clapham shows you how to build and animate 3D text with Trapcode Form. He's also show you techniques for animating the text on and off - and while they're deceptively simple, they deliver in a really big way.

This is part of a Red Giant TV series here at CreativeCOW.net. Red Giant Software products are available as plug-ins for popular video editing and effects applications, including Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Premiere Pro®, AVID®, Sony Vegas® and Apple Final Cut Pro®/Motion®.

Comments

Nice!
by Erik Waluska

Thanks, Tim! That's a very cool effect.

BTW - I tried the URL you mentioned at the end of the video www.hyper.tv/hyperblog but it took me to a HYPER TV page about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and heart disease.

And for anyone who still doesn't know how to translate Mac shortcuts to PC, it's simple:

Mac PC
Command = Control
Option = Alt

That's the only difference.

Not a MAC user
by Jerome Baylon

I am trying to follow the tutorial but some of the keyboard short cuts are not fit for my PC, is there a tutorial of these for non MAC users? By the way i can't make all the picture one frame long, when i hit the keyframe settings all are gone except the one on the top in the composition 2. I am almost there but this problem stops me, please help me coz this softwares are big deal for me.

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