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Boris graffiti – can we do a X-files typewriter effect?
In episodes of the X-files, when the scene opens we see some text wipe across the screen in the bottom left corner, sort of like a smooth typewriter.
Can we do this effect with Boris Graffiti?
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Hi,
You can achieve that effect in Graffiti via the Type-On text feature. There are a free tutorials available that show you how to do this here:
https://borisfx.com/tutorials/#null
One of the tutorials that would be most useful to you is titled “Extreme Overshoot”. This provides a very good overview of the capabilities of Graffiti’s Type-On text tool.
If you want to skip all of that, just follow these steps:
• create some text using the Graffiti text generator
• twirl down the text track and click to select the Face track in the timeline
• in the Controls Window, select the Type On tab
• animate the Text Type On parameter from 0 to100 for the duration that you want the title animation to haveCheers,
Peter.
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Thank you, those are really useful!
But I must be missing something.. where is the extreme overshoot tutorial? -
Glad that helped. The Extreme Overshoot tutorial is actually on the RED page – it’s relevant because Graffiti is in fact the titling engine in RED. Here’s a link:
https://www.borisfx.com/tutorials/overshoot.php
Cheers,
Peter.
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