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Contents 1 The Stats 2 Purchase Red Giant Text Anarchy 3 Download Demo 4 Description 5 Highlights 5.1 Features 6 Support 6.1 F.A.Q. 6.2 Red Giant Forum 6.3 Red Giant Text Anarchy Tutorials

The Stats

Compatibility

• Developer: Red Giant Software (formerly Digital Anarchy Text Anarchy)
• Version: 2.3
• Platforms: Mac OS X 10.4.11 and later, 10.5.2 and later, Windows XP SP1 or later (32-bit), Windows Vista (32-bit)
• Host Applications: Adobe After Effects CS3, 7, 6.5
• Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Compatibility with After Effects 7, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility and Microsoft Vista Compatibility

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Description

Whether you're adding visual background noise, using text as a texture, or flashing words to reinforce a theme, text is an important element of your composition. Choose from Bezier paths, particle arrays, and Matrix-style patterns: Text Anarchy will generate the coolest effects while giving you fine typographic control. Now includes Geomancy and Anarchy Toolbox

Highlights

• Rich animations with particles - With particle plug-ins designed for text, you can move text in grids, lines, spirals, or other paths to create simple or complex effects. Randomness sliders add natural variations, while built-in alpha channel generation makes compositing easy.

• Extensive typographic control - Text anarchy plug-ins give you pinpoint control over font size, kerning, tracking, leading, hinting and baseline shift — features seldom seen outside layout applications. Animate between different fonts, or scroll type across a screen.

• Geomancy Shapes plug-ins included - For creating backgrounds and patterns of all kinds, Text Anarchy includes the Geomancy plug-ins for animating lines, squares, circles and other shapes in 3D space.

Features

• Keyframes Not Required - Unlike text animation in most applications, Text Anarchy does not require you to set and adjust keyframes.

• Add Randomness - Most controls have randomness sliders to add natural-looking variation

• Go Beyond Straight Lines - Map text to Bézier paths for sophisticated animation effects

• Animate Individual Letters - Give each letter its own path, or add effects like Blur, Color and Scale

• Scrolling Text plug-ins - TypeOn and ScreenText plug-ins make generation of scrolling text easy

• Text, Eight Ways - Text Anarchy 2.1 includes the Cool Text, Font Changer, Screen Text, Text Grid, Text Hacker, Text Matrix, Text Spiral, and TypeOn plug-ins

• Includes Geomancy Plug-ins - The Geomancy particle system contains Grid Lines, Grid Squares and Hail Lines plug-ins. Previously sold separately for $99.

• Includes Anarchy Toolbox Filters - A selection of Toolbox filters are also in the package, including Smooth Tiler, Path Distort, Gradient, and Gradient Path.

Support

F.A.Q.

I've been playing with Text Anarchy 2 and was wondering if there was a way to modify the underline cursor. The default is way too thin and long for many fonts.

The only workaround is to track it and then attach a cursor more to your liking using the track data. Or you could use an expression to scoot the position of a new cursor along by x number of pixels every frame.

Path Distort wavy output

In general Path Distort works great (After Effects plugin) although I have run into an issue in which the distorted image has 'waviness' in it (see attached image file). Of course, I've tried all the obvious things like using High Quality Output View with a high number of subdivisions, Bezier Warping Method, etc. but nothing seems to make a difference. The distorted image is on a 3D layer with the camera aimed somewhat obliquely to the layer plane.

The waviness is in the image before Path Distort gets to it. If you look at your EnergyLine... comp with the Warps applied, it's already there. It looks to me like it's just an artifact of the Fractal Noise you're using being scrunched up. Stretched out fractal noise looks somewhat smooth and linear, but it's still has a lot of variation in it. Distorting it can cause those variations to stand out.

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