How to do a mission brief text effect

[John Rofrano]

[Joey Kelly] “I want to have a text briefing for the mission blip across the screen. “

What does “blip across the screen” mean? Do you have a video example you can point to? If you mean have it look like it’s typing, the ProType Titler has several methods for revealing text including a character at a time and a line at a time. It sounds like you might want to start there.

~jr

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[Joey Kelly]

I mean like in spy movies, where at the beginning to shows green computer text go across the screen saying something like:

Time: 3:43 pm
Place: State Capitol
Mission: Retrieval

Etc. etc.

I’ll check out the ProType title and come back to tell youif it worked.

Thanks!

[John Rofrano]

See if what you mean is like this tutorial of mine:

How to make an animated title in Vegas using SWISHmax

~jr

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[Joey Kelly]

That’s PERFECT! Except I don’t have Swishmax 🙁 and it costs money.

That’s exactly what I want, but is it possible to do it free?

Thanks!

[John Rofrano]

[Joey Kelly] “That’s exactly what I want, but is it possible to do it free?”

You can use the ProType Titler to animate the typing of the text by animating the Selection parameter. This will give you type-on text. See the image below for the settings:

You won’t get the blinking cursor like SwishMax has but it is a free solution. 😉

~jr

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[Joey Kelly]

AWESOME! I’ll try that!

Thanks for the fast replies!