[Esther Casas]

Robert! this was a great explanation, thank you! I tried and yes, put your two lines in the expression in the text, so:

rate = 6; //value in px/sec
value – [0,rate*timeToFrames(time)]

but what this does is putting my text way to far from my frame, when I zoom out my comp i see that my text is now scrolling but outside of the comp, it basically went all the way up in position. So what i did was to set up the Y value to positive(as it was negative).
what i don’t understand is how you got to number 6 for rate and what the second line is telling to do….I guess i will save these two lines every time I have to scroll a text…

Now, should I do exactly the same expression for each comp then? if you want all your text to move at the same rate, the expression should be the same for all the comps I am adding? I have a very loooong text separated into 320 different comps, i will put one after teh other with this same expression, correct?

thanks Robert! you are a great teacher!!

[Esther Casas]

thank you R, but sorry my ignorance..what do you mean with creating an “expression”? can’t find it in the position…i can only create keyframes…?

[Esther Casas]

Robert! thank you so much, it worked! couldn’t see that setting…

another question…I am doing a scrolling text (ending credits), and it’ every very long…i am doing it with keyframes in position and is fine. But when you have a super long text…do you use several compositions and you add them together or you use one comp that is going to be very long? If I am planning to use a single comp…I think it will be a problem as your position start point is way too far…meaning you will not see it in your screen unless you really zoom out a lot..I hope I am making myself clear…I just like to know how I am suppose to be setting up the whole text, I am assuming with several compositions and adding together so I can see my position keyframes?

Thank you again!!!

[Esther Casas]

i see…if 1024X576 is PAL widescreen…this is why is interpreting PAL maybe.. I upgraded final cut in between and that’s why maybe we got the change…and you are right, 24 is not either PAL or NTSC…anyway, i just have to tell FC all the time that is not PAL but square pixels, I guess will keep doing research though…but your math made sense and I didn’t know 1024X576 is equivalent to PAL SD widescreen! that answers why FC is telling me this…

Thanks Bouke!

[Esther Casas]

Hello Bouke! thanks for the reply,

my clips are HD @24FPS, sequence frame size is set up right now at 1024X576 (half of original footage, which is 2048 HD.
We want it set up as square pixels as is how it was set up at the beginning of the project, and it was always NTSC…but@24fps.

If it was recognizing NTSC before, why should it be recognizing PAL now?

[Esther Casas]

Thank you so much Jerry!

[Esther Casas]

Also, when i burned the DVD with my HD footage with the project set up as HD in DVDSP…the dics doesn’t start playing…i guess is because i have to set it up as SD?? and use 8bit uncompressed?
thank u!!!
E

[Esther Casas]

Thanks Jerry, I will set up the project as SD DVD then.
My previous was set up as NTSC HD, not SD…

So, my question is: i exported with compressor a 8bit uncompressed quicktime movie. Is this the best setting i should be using to burn a DVD with DVDSP SD? also, I like to use the HD frame 2048..this is going to be a problem if I use the SD right? as is 720 only? can i go to 1080i? or bigger if the project is set up as SD?
I just want to get a high res DVD movie..

Thanks again!
Esther.

[Esther Casas]

Hi, well, actually this was thought very well,so that is not the issue here.
I just wanted to know how to do an alpha channel, as it was one suggestion i like to follow.
does anyone can tell me how to do it?
the shot is just a sky to keylight, and like to know how an alpha channel will work together with keylight and why?
thank you!
E.

[Esther Casas]

Hi Victor, it helps. but my problem i think is to set up in and outs.
i can do it with one of the clips, but when i want to do it with the other one, then teh ones i set up before disappeared.
so, do i have to set up in and out on separated sequences???
how can you save the in and outs from 2 independent clips that you want to cross dissolve???