ticker type scroll

[Edward Troxel]

First of all, I would scroll it using the “Positioning” tab in the text generated media. Beyond that, have you tried things like Reduce Interlace Flicker?

Edward Troxel

[Chris Young]

Ted ~

I just use the insert ‘text media’ tool, on a new track.

On opening enter the ‘length’, i.e. the duration of your ‘ticker’ in the dialogue box at the top. Next type in your text ticker or crawl using the normal text ‘edit’ window in the text tool. As your text line grows past the window limits you will see a drag bar appear at the bottom of the window, just keep on typing. Once you have finished select the ‘placement’ tab and select ‘bottom center’, make note of the ‘Y’ coordinate. Go to the head of the keyframe track and then drag your text line all the way off to the right, check your Y coordinate is the same as the ‘bottom centre’ one. Next drag your keyframe slider to the far end of the keyframe track. Now grab your text line and slide it all the way off to the left side, check that the Y coordinate is the same as the start keyframe, exit. When you go back to the timeline drag your ‘text’ graphic to the same duration that you entered in the text ‘length’ dialogue in the text tool and with luck you should have a ‘ticker’ that should render smoothly. I find with a little experimentation you will work out a good speed/length ratio that works. Do it frequently and so far so good!

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney

[Chris Young]

Ted ~

Forgot to mention you can also use the ‘Ctl’ key and drag the graphic longer for a slower speed if you need to fine tune. Just do a test render to make sure it’s smooth!

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney

[Ted Snow]

Thanks Ed and Chris…will try your suggestions.

[Ted Snow]

Ed,
Actually I did use the positioning tab and not the pan…but I did not use reduce interlace flicker. Will give that a try. Thanks

[Unzarjones]

I must be missing something here, I’ve followed the example and cannot get the text to move across the screen. At the start/end of the clip I can see the letters where the scrolling should start/end but no movement. I have done this before in a past project but can’t remember anything that I could have done differently.

[Edward Troxel]

Make sure you have TWO keyframes: One at the beginning of the scroll and one at the end of the scroll. Set each appropriately.

Edward Troxel

[Unzarjones]

Thanks for the reply. There are two keyframes- beginning and end. I can’t seem to get the text line placement to “stick” to each on their respective ends, it’s either one or the other. I CAN get it to work if I just animate it the event pan/crop, but not when using the video event FX placement(and then the text won’t all fit in one clip). UJ

[Edward Troxel]

Does the “Length” of the generated media match the actual length on the timeline?

Edward Troxel

[Unzarjones]

Yes, I dragged it to the beginning of the timeline and the EventPan/Crop, the generated media and the project timeline show the same length. I set it from three seconds up to ten. The ticker text will stick to one or the other of the key frames. When I set the first one, it’s ok, but when I drag the text to the other side to set the second keyframe the first keyframe forgets the placement even though the keyframe marker is still there. Selecting the keyframes themselves moves the cursor to the corresponding side of the event alright, but the text is stuck.

I’ve checked all the possible settings I can think of and tried various steps in case I was getting things out of order. I’m going to see if I still have the older veg/files with the ticker that worked to see if I can find something different. Don’t know if this means anything but I just previously installed Boris FX 8 and changed the preview cache to zero per their instruction, but changed it back again for this.

I was having a blast with editing – now I want to throw myself out the window 🙂