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keyframing the letters of a word
In my ongoing endeavours to create a type of running clock, I wondered if it is possible to keyframe the letters in a word/digits in a number. I tried and don’t think it’s possible, strange enough.
Am I right? Wouldn’t that be a very simple and handy feature?
Wolf
G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2
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2 Replies
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Hi Wolf,
There are several plugins that do countdowns/numbers, there’s one in TMTS and one in Nattress Big Box of Tricks, both are generators. Both are able to be altered, the TMTS one more so, including fonts and sizes.
You also can do this in After Effects with the numbers plugin, and some others as well, Text Anarchy works well as I recall, from Digital Anarchy.
Not sure how or if you can keyframe individual letters, especially in FCP, home of the most dismally pathetic keyframing on the planet. Don’t get me started…
Have a wonderful day.
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Thanks, Chris. That TMTS-tip was great: didn’t know about those freebies. I’ll write Mattias about a simple keyframing tool/plugin for letters/numbers- it seems like something for him to pick up.
Meanwhile I’ve made something that is very inefficient, but it looks nice. A combination of a speeding clock in Motion, a fancy looking background template and growing, rotating numbers that change value ‘in the spin’ and come to a halt at a certain year. If that makes any sense…G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2
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