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Irregulare sliding text
I’m doing a LOONG slide of text (around 5 minutes) so I’m looking for the quickest way to do this.
I have a quite amount of name (cities) and I need the to roll in, stop and roll out, on at the time. Since we’re talking 5 mins, it will be a pain to keyframe it. What would be the easiest and quickest approach?
I’m thinking of some kind of expression. But I’m not sure how, really. Also, the names are different in length so if longer words can stay longer on screen, it’s a big plus. Any tips? -
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There are likely to be many better ways of doing this, but when I have sliding text I use this method:
Add two position keyframes about a second apart that start the movement. Get the speed how you want it. Then add this expression to the position property: loopOut(“continue”) The text will keep moving at that same speed after the 2nd keyframe. This is good if the length of the text changes – it will keep moving at that same speed.
Now, you want to stop the text at intervals. This is something I’m not sure how to automate. But you could precompose your text and then add time remapping keyframes to ease it to a halt before starting it again. This would mean a lot of keyframes I suppose, but you wouldn’t have to constantly worry about how fast the text was moving etc, just about when to stop and start it moving.
This is a solution that will save you some time, but perhaps not a huge amount. Maybe someone else has a better idea.
Simon Bonner
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Thanks for you tip. But the moment I want to remove, as you said, is to keyframe the position to stop. I’m thinking of a way to stop the loopOut-expression every nth frame for x frames.
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