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Scrolling Text with Perspective?
Hi all,
I’m trying to create a scrolling text effect on the side of a building. The shape of the building is oblique and I can’t seem to get the perspective right.I’ve tried Precomping the text, using 3D orientation, and also corner-pin – no luck. The issue is that over time during the perspective drifts. What looks good at the top of the building, doesn’t work for the bottom of the building.
Are there any tools I can use to achieve this effect? Am I missing something in the logic of what I’m trying to do? Any help would be great!
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5 Replies
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You can upload stills here. It might be easier for everyone to offer a solution if we had a better idea of the problem areas.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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you can also try a camera track (Camera Tracker- The Foundry, or Boujou or Syntheyes) and then position the text in 3d on the first frame- it would help if you precomp the text and have a solid in that precomp just for positioning (kinda’ like what Dave was saying).
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Thanks guys, I’ll upload a still.
I had to turn something in this morning and what I ended up doing was rasterizing the text, changing the perspective in photoshop, dropping that into a precomp that was similar in size to wall of the building and doing the scroll in that precomp.
Then I dropped that in the main comp and corner pinned it, adjusting as it went. Eventually the corner-pin got so skewed that it started clipping the pre-comp. I made it work (client approved), but wasn’t happy with the results.
I’ll investigate your responses.
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No, the shot is locked down. I’m using corner pin to get the text in line with the perspective of the building as it scrolls from bottom to top.
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put up a screen shot
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