You want to remove each fill from every letter. Under the contents tab, go through each letter and make sure the visibility icon (the eye) is not selected or shown.

Select 'Stroke' from the pull down menu.

Click the arrow to the left side of the shape layer.

You can do this by following the below steps. Now that your text layer has been converted to a shape, you can add a stroke. Right-click on the text layer and click 'Create Shapes from Text' Type out any word in your preference of font/typeface (something in bold will probably work best for this) (Usually the bottom left panel of the screen.Ĭhange colour of solid to a dark grey or black (or another colour if you prefer) click OKĬreate a text layer by again right-clicking under the 'Source Name' part of the timeline window and selecting Text from the pull down menu. To create a solid right-click under the window that says 'Source Name' in the timeline panel. You can set the Duration to whatever time you want but I set mine to 0:00:10:00 (10 secs) This tutorial will show you how to make this from scratch.Īfter you have opened up a new project in After Effects open up a new composition by doing the following.

After effects change color of solid