Digits Man, part 2 : Adobe After Effects Tutorial

Digits Man, part 2

A CreativeCOW After Effects Video Tutorial

Eran Stern
Israel

©2008 Eran Stern and Creativecow.net. All rights reserved.

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In this video tutorial, Creative Cow contributing editor Eran Stern will continue to finesse the design of the Digits Man promo. Learn how to create a subtle background using the Shape Tool and spice it further with additional effects and Text animations.

Note: This tutorial is also available as a podcast: Click here to find it and other After Effects podcasts.

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Digits Man, part 2
by Eran Stern

As far as I know there is no easy way to do it, what you can do is to define words instead of letters.
Then if you write AEIOU in sequence it will be treat as one word, that's only if you add SPACE before and after this sequence.
Now if you want to animate words instead of individual letters, you should twirl down "Range Selector" and then open "Advanced" and change the value "Based On" to "Words", now After Effects will treat each word as one group of text.

Eran

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Digits Man, part 2
by Lukas Malec

Thanks but its not quiet what I need. In your tutorial you let the digits (0123456789) change randomly. I want to let letters change randomly but only certail letters. So I only want to use the letters: AEIOU.

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Digits Man, part 2
by Eran Stern

Watch Aharon's podcast: Text tips #2
http://cowcast.creativecow.net/podcast/after-effects-text-tips-2--212
He explains exactly how to use the Text Range Selectors in a great manner.

Eran

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Digits Man, part 2
by Lukas Malec

Great tutorial!
I recreated it with letters but how can I specify the range of the letters? I want to have only a specfic range of letters for example only vocals (AEIOU).

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Digits Man, part 2
by Lyndon Alvarez

thank you eran, that was an amazing tutorial! i enjoyed that one a lot! very cool effect, very cool.

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