Swipe-to-Reveal Text Effect in After Effects (Animated Mask Reveal)

Description: CREATE A SWIPE TO REVEAL EFFECT IN AFTER EFFECTS! | We’ll manually keyframe a mask to hide and reveal a type tagline in our video project.

In this After Effects tutorial, we will learn to create and animate a mask that will form a highly customizable animated mask that will hide or reveal text as an object travels through our video (we will use a truck driving in this video to “swipe” in some text.) Learn some basic features of transforming, text, masks, and animation in After Effects in this tutorial.

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1. Text Wipe On Effect
2. Place video clip and scale to comp size if needed
3. Place text, Futura non-condensed around 225pt colored white
4. Duplicate video and place copy above the text layer
5. Create a mask with the pen tool and drop a keyframe right where you first want to begin exposing the text as the leg swings through
6. Animate a few frames as a time and transform and adjust the mask so it moves with the vehicle and reveals all of the text
7. Advantage to masking a duplicated video layer to reveal the text is that we can resize or change the text and the mask still travels with the foot. If we just used a mask right on the layer with the text, it would need to be adjusted and tweaked with any size or position changes we made to the text itself.