[Antoni Jones]

Thanks guys for all your replies, I will try to work at 4K with some performance tweaks to see if they will help before rendering out at a lower resolution.

Thanks again.

[Antoni Jones]

I suppose I could but my PC isn’t the best and struggles somewhat. Guess I will have to muddle through it. Thanks for the response.

[Antoni Jones]

I could do this but I’ll be using the image in video editing software afterwards and I also don’t want to destroy any pixels on the image. I want the video to show through in the transparent areas. Not only this, but I’m creating a tutorial on how to use Alpha Channels.

Anyway it works ok now, thanks.

[Antoni Jones]

I have saved the file as a PNG with no luck however if I change my Alpha Channel colors around, a white background with black areas where I want transparency, it works fine in Vegas. I don’t know the reason for this because in other programs like Premiere Pro the correct way is a black background with white ereas.

[Antoni Jones]

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your answer but the problem is I have a space between the two letters I’m trying to mask, therefore I have to really have a break between the two letters. The only thing I can think of is to create the letters in seperate compositions and two particular effects on each then somehow tie it together into one coherent animation. If you know of a different way I would be glad to hear it.

-Regards

[Antoni Jones]

Hi Guys,

Sorry to bother you again but with your help I have got the path and letter working, I’m wondering how would I go about doing a whole word using this technique?. Right now it seems I can only copy one Mask Shape to Particulars x and y position data, since a word is made up of many different masks how would I achieve this?.

-Regards

[Antoni Jones]

Thanks Dave, I created a solid above my text layer and lowered its opacity to zero so I could see my text layer underneath and use that as a guide when creating my mask. I then applied a stroke to the mask and animated its end property over 5 seconds. I created a solid layer, applied the Particular effect and pasted in the mask shape information into Particulars x and y position property. This worked fine!!, all I had was timing issues which I easily solved by dragging out the keyframes to 5 seconds. I wanted to do it this way over using write-on because I belive it’s more accurate. Anyway, thanks to you both from hours of frustration!!.

[Antoni Jones]

Thanks Roland for you answer that worked for my path but now I have another problem. I want to do the same thing for a letter, I type out the letter and scale it to the size I want, I then draw a mask around the letter and apply a stroke to this mask. When I now paste in the mask shape to Particulars x and y position values it doesnt seem to work. Can you help?, I am assuming the scaling of the letter is causing a problem?.

-Thanks.

[Antoni Jones]

I already have and didn’t find anything that could answer my question. Like I already stated I have convertred the keyframes to “hold” but I then dont get the zoom motion, rather it “cuts” to the next keyframe. For instance if I just set the anchor point and scale keyframes to “hold” then scrub along in time set two new keyframes where I zoom completley out it does hold to that point in time but then jumps to the full screen rather than zooming back out. I hope I’m making myself clear.

-Regards

Antoni.

[Antoni Jones]

Hi,

I have managed to find this:

https://www.vimeo.com/1271357

Its about the only one I could find, I would like more tutorials on this subject myself since I find Typography fascinating.

-Regards

Antoni.

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