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mechanical typewriter effect help
I need some help and hope someone out there has an idea… I need to make a little clip of something being typed on a piece of paper. I could just have the letters appear one at a time w/ some impact sound FX. I would like to do that but also have the “keys come down and impact” the paper w/ the sound FX and then the letter appears.
So my problem…the little flash of the bar that would be the impact key that produces typed letter. (i.e. mechanical typewriter) Thoughts??? And on a major deadline. -
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I don’t think this can be done satisfactorily in Vegas alone. You would probably need a graphics program to construct a ‘striker’ that you could then import and animate in Vegas. There are undoubted programs out there that have this preconstructed but I do not know of one. Anyone else?
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Yes Terry is right, create the graphic(s) outside of Vegas, maybe with Illustrator. Make sure to export the graphic with a transparent background as with png’s or gif’s.
Once imported, bring it onto a new layer and you will have to play a lot with the Track Motion(3D) and a Velocity Envelope to get the motion of it striking down.
If you plan on having a static page and moving arm strikes, you will have to also pan with keyframes so your arm image moves across the page. Alternatively you could create different layers each with the arm in a different position.
If you page is moving, then of course you will have to pan the page layer.
Hope this helps and I hope the sentence is short!
Best of luck
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