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Another text animation question
Hello
I am working on animating some titles.
I can animate the text ok but, I would like to do the following.
First Line at one second in the top third of the frame.
Second line added to the middle third of the frame at 3 seconds.
Third line added to the first two on the bottom third.
So at 5 seconds all three lines are visible.
I currently do this with three separate media events stacked on 3 video tracks. If I try to do it using one media event the top line of text moves up out of the frame when I add the third line in the bottom.
What options am I missing?
Thanks
Bradi7 2600 3.4 Ghz 8Gig Ram , Win 7 Pro, Vegas Pro 12
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4 Replies
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I’m pretty certain that your three stacked tracks are the only way to go. When you start animating one piece of text by adding further letters you are going to throw out the line formatting as you have discovered. It’s not such a big issue really. And don’t forget, you might be able to make some use of parent tracks too for movement.
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I did something like this with two lines and the Titles and Text tool, having the second line pop in to a musical cue.
In entered my first line with a blank second line.
Click the Animate (keyframe) button for the text and enter the text for the second line. Note the first line is in the second line text. Move the keyframe for that second text element to the proper time.The NewBlue titler can do this pretty easy since it has it’s own internal timeline you can use for positioning and overlapping text items.
I have never use the Protype titler but it seems to have an internal timeline as well.
The internal timeline thing just lets you have multiple independent text things going on in a single Vegas video event.
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Thank you for the response Norman
With Sony titles and text, it seems it I could get two lines OK, it was the third line that kicked line one out of the frame. I even tried a dummy space on the lines but the titler is too smart and it doesn’t fool it into believing it a full line.
So I guess I’ll stick with 3 overlaped events.
Thanks
Bradi7 2600 3.4 Ghz 8Gig Ram , Win 7 Pro, Vegas Pro 12
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I just tried it and got three and four lines to work in Titles and Text.
Sorry, I forgot to mention you might need to put blank spaces in for the lines. If you change the anchor point to top left this can be avoided in many cases.
It is a bit quirky entering the second and subsequent lines. When I selected the blank space and typed the second line the first character went on the second line but the rest wanted to go to the third unless I moved the cursor back to the second line. I did not play with this to figure what is going on.
I tried protype titler and it was pretty easy there using keyframed opacity to control when each line becomes visible.
As always, Go with what is easiest.
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