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    Side scrolling text

    Posted by Antony Christie on October 10, 2012 at 9:56 am

    Hi

    I’m working on an MC6 project and I want text to scroll in from the side (like this from 23 seconds https://youtu.be/H8oLlx11OEM?t=23s). I’ve prepared some 5760×1080 .pngs in Photoshop and intended to use keyframes to have them scroll, but neglected the fact that MC will resize them.

    What’s the best way to this?

    Many thanks
    toe-knee

    2 x Sony NEX-FS100E’s
    Mac Pro (early 2009) 2 x 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processors, 12GB of 1066MHz DDR3 ECC memory, 2 x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB GDDR3 memory. Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4.
    Avid Media Composer 6.0.1, Pro Tools 10,

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  • James Patterson

    October 10, 2012 at 10:07 am

    You have to copy the text into title tool and do it from there. Press the crawl button and the text will behave as you want. If you want a bar behind the text as in the video, use the paint tool on a layer below the text to draw it in.

    Best

    Paddy

  • Antony Christie

    October 10, 2012 at 10:22 am

    Great! Thanks Paddy; I’ll try that.

    I’m hoping to use Ropa Sans font-face and have already prepared a very nice background which I’d like to use on the layer below.

    I assume it’s possible to do these with your solution?

    2 x Sony NEX-FS100E’s
    Mac Pro (early 2009) 2 x 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processors, 12GB of 1066MHz DDR3 ECC memory, 2 x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB GDDR3 memory. Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4.
    Avid Media Composer 6.0.1, Pro Tools 10,

  • James Patterson

    October 10, 2012 at 10:43 am

    If the font is in your library’s font folder then it should show up in title tool, .otf fonts can have problems, I find some work and some don’t, .ttf fonts always work. If you have a background already made then that will work fine.

    Best

    Paddy

  • Antony Christie

    October 10, 2012 at 10:49 am

    Okay, many thanks again Paddy!

    toe-knee

    2 x Sony NEX-FS100E’s
    Mac Pro (early 2009) 2 x 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processors, 12GB of 1066MHz DDR3 ECC memory, 2 x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB GDDR3 memory. Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4.
    Avid Media Composer 6.0.1, Pro Tools 10,

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