David Bark
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OK, I think I’ve got what you’re saying, and I’ll apologize in advance if I’m misreading this. Here’s the process as I understand it:
Make a comp, super wide not very tall, in which the text will reside. In this comp, type your text. Then, copy and paste that text at the end of itself, making as many copies as you estimate are necessary to cover the time you want the text to crawl across the screen.
(So, if my text was: “We have a very special announcement coming up. Stay tuned for details.” I would probably have that text situated about 10 times (or whatever) in comp 1.)
Then I drop comp 1 into Comp 2, place it so the left side of Comp 1 slightly overlaps the left side of Comp 2, add Offset, and animate the offset center. The effect is basically the same of animating the position of Comp 1, this is just easier, right?
David Bark
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I don’t get it. I’m probably missing something basic, but the Offset doesn’t repeat the text.
Comp one is long and short, with the text in it. I can animate the Comp 1 offset in Comp 2, and the text will crawl, but it doesn’t repeat. Do I need to make multiple duplicates of the Comp? Then line them up back to back in the timeline?
Or,
Am I typing all the text, then pasting it back to back in comp 1 for as long as many times as I need it to crawl across the screen?
David Bark
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Yes! Thank you. Not too used to text animations yet. The other way (though your solution is much simpler) I found is to create a solid, add the mask to the solid and use the solid as a track matte for the text layer.
David Bark
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I did play around with that, and exported a 720p90 sequence from Aperture, but the images I’m using are too small, and there was a loss of quality there. Finally I realized that exporting from Aperture is really unnecessary. I mean, it’s really just as easy to bring the images into the FCP sequence, drop them all on the timeline, select them all and change the duration, then change add the default trans to them all in one fell swoop. Far as I can tell, that makes the render issue moot.
Still, I have to wonder why that happens? The images look fine, but once you render the timeline, they get messed up. Doesn’t make sense.
David Bark
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I can actually see the change take place! The Playhead is over an image in the timeline, and when the render finishes, I see it change to pixelated junk in the canvas! Export to QT is still messed up. Export to QT with no render looks fine.
David Bark
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Thanks! I tried again in a new document and it was fine. I don’t know what I did wrong on that first attempt. Maybe because I opened an image in Illustrator, rather than opening a new Illustrator doc and placing the image? In any case, all good now. Much obliged.
David Bark
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Press “Return” Instead of “Enter.”
David Bark
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Hi Adam,
I’ve had my HVX for close to a year, and I just got my first P2 card yesterday. I was pretty excited until I ran into all kinds of problems formatting the HDD. Now, it was a drive that I’d used before, and I copied everything on it to another drive.
I plugged in the drive, plugged the firewire to the cam, turned on the cam, went to MCR mode, hit the button for a couple seconds until Host 1394 started flashing, and then the format menu came up. All the options except “Setup” which the cursor was on, were grayed out. Not only that, but after about three seconds a warning box came up that read, “Error: Too Many Targets,” or something along those lines.
I hooked the drive up to the computer and basically trashed everything in it, then tried again to format from the camera with the same results. I’ve tried it with and without the P2 card in the camera, and I’ve tried it with another Firewire cable.
Thought the drive does have 2 firewire and one usb port, as well as an eSata prot, whatever that is, the drive was not connected to the computer and none of these other ports was in use. I’m a little freaked out that the problem might be with the camera. Any thoughts? Thanks!
David Bark
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Woah,
Been reading After Effects Apprentice and just started Chapter 6: Parenting and Nesting. The first sentence makes me think I’m going to find an answer. (Hopefully)
David Bark
Lightshine Productions