Erasing Text effect question, masks? after effects? help!

[atarijake]

I'm attempting to create a dry erase board style animation effect in my flash movie where I'm erasing the text, like a dry erase board type effect. I've tried doing a frame by frame mask animation and it's not turning out very well. Has anyone attempted this before? Are there any tutorials or maybe after effects > flash tricks? thanks!

[junkerjorg]

Have you tried to do it frame by frame and actually erasing a little of the text in each frame?

[atarijake]

Yes, I ended up doing exactly that. I was wondering if there was a faster way of getting it done with animated masks or something like that but the frame by frame didn't take nearly as long as I thought once I got the hang of it.