Quick Tip – A Helpful Look At The “Write-on” Plug-in

Quick Tip – A Helpful Look At The “Write-on” Plug-in

on Sep 14th 2011 with 13 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: Just After Effects... enjoy
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Run Time: 13:25 min
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In this tutorial you will get an in-depth look into the plug-in called “Write-on“. You also will learn a few tricks when you are using the Write-on plug-in to write text onto the screen.

Quick Tip

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  • xandercorp

    Are you the same guy that did that ropes tutorial? I loved that one.

    Anyway, about this one: The tip is OK, I usually achieve what you did there with the stroke effect, but it’s the same basic technique, however the masks, I do two different layers for the text, both with the stroke, I pre-compose those and then make masks for the upper I do the first set of lines(what would be on top) and the second a rough bottom mask(don’t spend much time for detail there because you already have the top parts of the first letter by the time the layer underneath comes into play.

    • http://butlerm.com Matthew Butler
      Author

      yeah same guy! glad you liked it. Yeah I sometimes use the stroke effect as well but this was basically an in-depth look into just the write on effect in AE

  • xandercorp

    Cool, I hope you keep upping these nice tuts.

    I have a question bout the write-on plug-in: Does it work on shapes or anything vector or is it just for text? As far as I can tell there’s a higher degree of control on this. How high does the brush size go?

    • http://butlerm.com Matthew Butler
      Author

      Brush size I believe goes up to 1000px but I could be wrong… thats just off the top of my head. Yeah works with any vector or shape or anything basically. Only reason I used it on text and only mentioned text is because this is just a quick tip and I didn’t have time to mention much other than using it on text.

  • Scotty
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  • http://www.cgmotionbox.com CGMOTIONBOX

    Thanks for this nice tut !

  • http://www.danrholtdesign.com Dan Holt

    Check out another great tutorial in learning how to use the write-on tool.
    http://danrholtdesign.com/blog/how-to-create-growing-elements-in-aftereffects

  • Peter

    Good tutorial. I would have to say that I stopped it at the middle, couldn’t stand the sound of your keystrokes and a weird sound you have when clicking. and could I suggest a little more enthusiasm when doing this? You are teaching how to do something, the last thing you want is to have your audience feel like this is boring to you, ’cause it made it super boring for me.

    Thanks tho.

  • http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/quick-tip-a-helpful-look-at-the-write-on-plug-in/ martin

    this good tutorial but tell me how to do (4:46) which seems very quick key

    • http://butlerm.com Matthew Butler
      Author

      Use page up and page down to go forward or back one frame at a time. Was that your question?

  • IanJ

    how did this tut get approved?