tickertape

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You can create the moving (crawling) characters with the “Title Crawl” generator included with FCP.

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Also, there is a “Crawl” function in LiveType.

[David Bogie]

What level of accuracy or timeliness in the simulation does he require? Tickertape is an ancient form of information delivery that was replaced with character generators in the 60s. Shoot right off the screen of one of the financial channels. If you can’t use the image itself, you should be able to mimic the technique easily enough.

WAR STORY: The first time I had to do this, the client wanted to simulate the “chasing lights” style of stock readout. It took us several days in After Effects to get an acceptable simulation of lightbulbs that turn on and off . We wasted many hours simply moving LED-style letterforms under a grid of holes. Problem was that you could see the letters moving under the holes so there was no illusion of lights going on and off. We ended up using a Threshold filter.
The last time I did this we used FEC Ball Action to great effect.

Point is, this could be tremendously complicated.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Mantrafilm]

I managed to make one that works for my project, using “crawl” from the text generator and a cropped matte.
Thanks guys!