Sewing

[John Rofrano]

Using a dash was a cleaver idea. What you want to do is get it to stop growing.

To do this, set up the Sony Text Generated Media with a single dash. On the Edit tab make sure the text is left justified (center is the default so you must change this). Then in the Placement tab under Text Placement select Center Left. It is very important that you don’t have the text be freeform or else the text generator will keep moving your text as you add characters. That’s why you want to select Center Left.

Now comes the fun part. Advance the keyframe cursor one frame and type another dash. Advance it again one frame and type another dash. Keep doing this until you have a whole line of dashes and keyframes. When played back you will get 30 stitches per second appearing on the screen.

Finally use Track Motion to place your dashes anywhere you want including rotating them.

~jr

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[Danny Hays]

It looks like your keyframing size instead of position, as the stitching gets bigger as it gets longer. You could keyframe position by starting with it off the screen and moving onto the screen. It still wont look like it’s stitching unless the movement speed and framrate synced up so the exsisting stitches appeared to stay in the same place.
Another idea is to use the standard text with alph,”Chechardboard background” and add one – and with the preview window set to full best, click the little floppy disc icon and take a picture. Do this after each – is added, then with a new project, place each picture on the timeline , with the lenth of about three frames each, butted up next to eachother. this would look like ten stiches per second were being stitched. Render out as uncompressed with alpha, to retain the transparent background. Then use track motion to put the new stiching clip where you want. You can add them to another track and in track motion, turn it 90 deg for the virtical stitches. This will make both horizontal and virtical the samw size.
Hope this helps, Danny Hays

[Danny Hays]

quess you beet me to it John, LOL Actually your way, adding a keyframe after each stich would be easier. Good idea. danny

[Linda O’connell]

It’s kind of like doing a typewriter text, isn’t it? I think I have a template for that somewhere around here… I will work on it and show you the results.

[John Rofrano]

It’s kind of like doing a typewriter text, isn’t it? I think I have a template for that somewhere around here…

Yes, that exactly what it is. If you have a template that does “typewriter text” it will make a good starting point.

~jr

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[Linda O’connell]

This is what I ended up with…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5MpSZLaWXg

One thing I didn’t take into account was the font size. I used a big font for the short ones and it worked out fine because I used the track motion to make is smaller. But when I got to the bigger horizontal lines that wouldn’t work because then it wouldn’t go all the way across the screen. I had to go back and change the font size to smaller (so the stitches wouldn’t look huge) and add more key frames.

My typewriter template wouldn’t work for some reason, but I have never used the keyframes like this before for text so it was a good experience.

A lot of work for just 15 seconds!

Let me know what you think now..

[John Rofrano]

I think it looks fantastic! Bravo!!! Now for the finishing touch… find a sewing machine sound and sync it to the sowing. 😉

~jr

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