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Large list of Credits question?
Hello all,
I was creating some credits with AE. I started by
putting all the text into notepad and using tabs
to format. Then I opened AE created a text layer and
pasted the text into the layer. Everything worked fine
except for a few typos and tab sizes.
The wierd thing is that after the paste it took 30secs
to delete or add a character from the text layer. Just
hitting the backspace key would cause a wait(30sec) until
the delete occured. Does this sound right? I have 2GB Ram
and a P4 3.6GHz. I also noticed that this simple little
scrolling animation took 1.25GBs during render, this seems
like a lot just for a single layer render. (Fast Blur was
the only effect added to the layer)Is there a better way to deal with long credit text layers?
Thanks for any help
Mark Weaver
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4 Replies
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Definitely search the AE Cow archives under ‘credits’ or ‘Scroll’. It’s been asked many times.
For my film I tried a few ways and settled on what I thought looked the best and was most efficient:
1. In Illustrator create a very long document. Layout all your credits (not using tabs, but normal Illustrator ways of layout). Use a font that is thicker than thinner. Just do black text on normal BG.
Import the .ai file into AE. Set it to continuosly rasterize. Create a white solid and put it below the text layer. adjust the Y layer position till the top of your text is just below the screen. Set a key. Go forward in the timeline to when you want your credits to end (like when your credit music ends) then set the add a – (negative) to the Y position to get you in the ballpark of getting the bottom of the credits positioned just above the top of the screen. Tweak as necessary. So now your credits should crawl and end when you set them.
Now add an invert effect to the precomp so that it’s white on black. Then add a gauss blur set to vertical only or use a directional blur set to vertical and set the blur to around 2. This will help letters like capital ‘E’s from getting too weird with the scan lines.
Also try turning on motion blur for your ai layer.
Chris Smith
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Chris,
Thanks for the response, but does AE work better with a
large AI layer than it does with a large Text layer? The
motion for my credits is fine. I just can interact with
the TEXT layer very easily because it takes 30sec to delete
one character.Thanks for the note about AI, forgot about the progam. 🙂
Mark
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Works just fine. But in my workflow, you just pop over to AI with your original document open and make a change. Save, then cmd-H it in AE to reload the file in place of itself in the project window then it updates in AE.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com -
Chris,
Thanks for the knowledge… Time to start using
AI again. 🙂Mark
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