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title roll anomalies in ae?
I’m attempting a simple title roll in AE by just animating the position of a text layer with 2 keyframes over the length of 3 minutes. I’m going to render at 24fps and eventually add pulldown back in. I’m wonding if there are any precautions I should take as far as the speed of the roll. I know certain systems like the Smoke I use at work, require you to implement a mathmatical operation to the speed of the role so there are no artifacts or strobing, etc.
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I’ve had fine luck with doing the text layout in Illustrator, importing the file into AE, and doing the two keyframe thing. 2 things to watch out for is add a small amountg of vertical blur (gaussian in Y only or directional set to vertical) and set this to 1 to 2 pixels. The other is trying different fonts. Some work better than others. Capital ‘E’ s will give you a little grief but it seems they do in all movie credits. And of cousre check your work using component, s-video, or sdi. As Composite signals will give you all kinds of horrible artifacts.
Out of curiosity, why at 24fps? Why not 30 (29.97)? Is it for theatrical release on a print?
Chris Smith
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have you ever done it just using the text tool in AE?
It’s for a film that is being projected now on digibeta, but we are working in 24 with pulldown added because the filmmaker might want to get an HD or film out done eventually. -
I have not done a text roll with the text tool, but it should work just fine. It just may be a bit harder to lay out nice than to do it in Illustrator.
My advice on the 24 thing is make it easy on yourself and do it in 29.97 for the digibeta. If he redoes the film at HD or film res, you’ll have to re-render anyways. Might as well make the credits easier to deal with.
my .02
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com
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