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timing
hi…
i’m using skywriter (live text) in motion…the first word in the text begins to disappear as the last word appears…i need to hold the complete title on screen for 4 seconds before the first word begins to fade out…
i can’t figure out how to hold the timing so it works…
anybody?
thanks, dick s
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4 Replies
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Inspector > Text tab > LiveFont Timing section near the bottom. Since that particular font animation ends with nothing on the screen, all you can really do is adjust the Sequence parameter to zero so all the letters get drawn on at the same time, and adjust the Speed parameter to control how quickly they are drawn on and fade off. You can hold the first frame or last frame, but you can’t hold an intermediate frame (when all the words are formed). You’d think the Speed parameter could be keyframed (it has an animation menu, after all), but “add keyframe” is greyed out for all the LiveFont parameters.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
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I’ll amend my response – you can add the Scrub filter and animate the Frame offset parameter. For example, set a keyframe at the point where the word is fully drawn with an offset of zero, and another 60 frames later with an offset of -60 to keep that frame on screen for 2 seconds. Again, you’ll have to set the Sequence parameter to zero.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net -
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hi mark…
a belated thanks for the solution…my old pappy used to say that a learning curve was the shortest distance between problem and solution…
dick s
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