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  Losing filter’s effect when text overlay is used also

  Posted by Steve Yu on January 11, 2009 at 4:42 am

  Hey gang,

  Has anyone had this problem — I have a bunch of clips that have the TV Lines effect on them on one layer, and I want to overlay text on these clips. When the text layers are over each clip, the TV lines disappear!

  I don’t want the TV lines to affect the text layer, but only the video clips below the text.

  Is there something I’m doing wrong? I guess if it won’t work I can render the clips out with the TV line effect and reimport to overlay the text, but I’m surprised it’s behaving the way it is.

  Thanks for any advice in advance!

  -Steve

  John Fishback replied 17 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  January 11, 2009 at 9:10 am

  What’s the TV Lines effect? Do you mean the Bad TV filter? Or some third party filter? Please give exact details of what you’re doing, what filter, what settings, what text tool, and how you’ve applied it. I cannot reproduce the problem using Bad TV at the default settings with the basic text tool.

  All the best,

  Tom

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  Steve Yu

  January 11, 2009 at 12:24 pm

  Thanks for your response Tom – sorry not to provide more detail in my original question.

  I am using the G TV Lines effect from Nattress Box of Tricks (in the TV Effects category).

  The one thing I did notice, is that the filter works fine with a normal text overlay…it’s the text overlays that I’ve added motion keyframes to that make the filter’s effects disappear. I have a few instances where I have the year in the middle of the screen scaling up over time, and when this is going on, the TV Lines effect is lost.

  The other odd thing I just tested…was that it seems to happen with the TV Lines effect, but not the others. Even other Nattress filters work with the text layer over it (Although it looks like something subtle might shift after the text animation is done). The TV Lines effect just disappears when the text is animating on top of it.

  Any thoughts?

  If not, I suppose I’ll try rendering the text animations in Motion, and recompositing them over the filtered video…

  Thanks!
  Steve
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  John Fishback

  January 11, 2009 at 5:15 pm

  Have you tried nesting the clip and putting the text over the nest?

  John

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