Script needed typing text.

[uncle808us]

Hi Everyone reading this:
I am looking for a script. I am ashamed to say I am ignorant as to how to do this myself.
What I am looking for is a script that would type the text I enter as an animation one letter at a time as an animation. T...(3 Frames)>.E...(3 Frames)>.X...(3 Frames)>.T...(3 Frames)>.etc. Taking this from a block of text.
Is this possible?
Thanks for any answers they are appreciated.

[slowtiger]

I do this with an animated mask, which I move wholly or just 2 points to reveal the letters one by one. Quite simple to do, after that I select all keys and set them to step.

[uncle808us]

Thank you I must now learn how to do this, any advice as to where to start. Thanks for the fast response.

[Víctor Paredes]

Maybe this Heyvern's script (or a modification over it) could do what you want:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=22815

[hayasidist]

or try this (AS11 example) ... https://www.mediafire.com/?ifdh7oyzedauxcp take a look at it, and if you can't figure it out, just say.

[uncle808us]

or try this (AS11 example) ... https://www.mediafire.com/?ifdh7oyzedauxcp take a look at it, and if you can't figure it out, just say.

OK I'm using Pro but I also have Debut and have the file open in there. It took me a while but I got it. Thanks that is a pretty fast way of doing that. Again Thanks

[Víctor Paredes]

There's a simpler solution. I don't know how we didn't thought it before!
If each letter is a shape, we can make them appear by transparency.
It's faster to do and doesn't require any other layer involved
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/544 ... ency.anime

[Víctor Paredes]

Ok, I made a very short tutorial showing how to do it

[hayasidist]

neat - yeah - nice one Victor!

[uncle808us]

There's a simpler solution. I don't know how we didn't thought it before!
If each letter is a shape, we can make them appear by transparency.
It's faster to do and doesn't require any other layer involved
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/544 ... ency.anime

I did the one with the masking and it worked and looked OK up until I rendered. Then the mask layer showed up! (after waiting a long time for the render)Bummer!
So now I'm trying the new way, but it is frustrating me I could not get any keyframe until I went to frame 1 nothing happen at 0, I did not see that in your video until about the 20th time I watched it. Ugh. well my brain is pretty burned so I'll try again tomorrow.

[hayasidist]

I did the one with the masking and it worked and looked OK up until I rendered. Then the mask layer showed up! (after waiting a long time for the render)Bummer!
..

Renders OK here??!! What (layer / render) setup do you have?

[slowtiger]

Setup should be:
- group (enable masking, hide all)
- - text layer (mask this layer)
- - mask (add to mask, but keep invisible)

[uncle808us]

Ok I'll try that. In the example file it was set to subtract.

[hayasidist]

Ok I'll try that. In the example file it was set to subtract.

because the group option was reveal all... so you'll need to change that to hide all if you change subtract to add/keep invisible

[slowtiger]

Did this little test, with an additional layer of bolder letters to mimick the impact:
http://www.slowtiger.de/examples/typewriter_normal.mov

In case you don't see it, here's the same animation with a layer of inverted letters:
http://www.slowtiger.de/examples/typewriter_invert.mov

And here's the files:
http://www.slowtiger.de/examples/typewriter.zip

Took me 20 minutes to do. So there's no need for a script unless you want to show a whole book this way.