Text following road line

[DDaudio19]

Alright I kinda figured it out. I just attached a position animator to the text and manually keyframed the movement to look correct with the movement of the animation. The text still seems to have some sort of funny wiggle on the line though.

[Mylenium]

Alright I kinda figured it out. I just attached a position animator to the text and manually keyframed the movement to look correct with the movement of the animation. The text still seems to have some sort of funny wiggle on the line though.

Just a thought: You could possibly have imported the Maya camera and used your text as a 3D layer. Alignmnet would not have been guaranteed, but you should not have the jitters from manual keyframing.

Mylenium

[suztv]

Alright I kinda figured it out. I just attached a position animator to the text and manually keyframed the movement to look correct with the movement of the animation. The text still seems to have some sort of funny wiggle on the line though.

I have had the same issues with manual key framing - you might want to use the "Toggle Hold Keyframe" option - especially if your text is supposed to remain in one spot and then move later at certain points. You should end up with 4 keyframes for each move. See the attached JPGs for reference.

I think it is the way AfterEffects interprets the keyframes - sometimes it moves when it shouldn't - maybe Mylenium would know why, I have no idea. I just have found that Toggle hold keyframe is the solution for that problem.

[majestik__12]

I have had the same issues with manual key framing - you might want to use the "Toggle Hold Keyframe" option - especially if your text is supposed to remain in one spot and then move later at certain points. You should end up with 4 keyframes for each move. See the attached JPGs for reference.

I think it is the way AfterEffects interprets the keyframes - sometimes it moves when it shouldn't - maybe Mylenium would know why, I have no idea. I just have found that Toggle hold keyframe is the solution for that problem.

That sounds like an issue with the motion path, if it is not set to linear and is possibly bezier motion path, then it will cause whatever you are animating to go beyond what you have set as its keyframe, due to the tangents of the bezier motion path, either setting those keyframes as hold keyframes, or making the motion path linear will usually fix those issues.

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