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Having issues with a downloaded project.
Hi all,
I am making some promotional videos for some products at work. In the interest of saving time (as I am a total novice with AE) I have found a nice Parallax style project (which I have purchased), to make life easier. The beauty of the project is that I just need to update the wording and replace placeholders with my chosen images.
My issue has come right at the start of the process. In a nutshell, to ensure that the text is always visible, regardless of the ‘background’ image, I want to add a semi transparent black square / rectangle behind the text. I have tried to do this by adding it to the text animation and text comps but if I select black for my shape fill colour, it simply does not display – other colours do however display but they are getting transparency from somewhere. Ideally I would also like some control over the opaque-ness of the square/rectangle as it seems to be being controlled via some background expressions.
You can download the project here: https://ufile.io/l7es2
Would anyone be able to help me out with this please?
Many Thanks – ChrisEDIT: I have managed to get a black background behind some text but only on the text which appears on the left or the even numbered text animations – I can’t manage to get them on the right hand side… I just dont get it!
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5 Replies
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some of the pre-comps with the text have the blending mode set to ‘add’, which will make white opaque and black transparent, and any shades in-between will be translucent.
to track down those layers, from the main comp, double-click a scene comp. then double-click a parallax comp. find the ‘text animation’ comp in the that parallax comp and make sure the blending mode is set to normal. now if you have any dark layer behind the text in any of the TextAnimaition or text comps, you should see it in the later comps (like the Main comp).
or, you could add the dark layer behind the textAnimation comp in each of the parallax comps, and leave the blending modes alone.
Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW -
That’s it – that was the issue!
Thanks pal!
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Dave – You can assume if I am asking a question on here I have exhausted other avenues. Also – I did say I was an amateur.
Thanks for your help…
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Also – just as an aside Kevin, why would some be set to add and others to normal… totally threw me..?
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my best guess is that it was a mistake.. they may have been looking at it with the blending mode and without, and at some point decided to go one way, but then changed their minds and some of them didn’t get changed.
Kevin Camp
Art Director
KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW
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