[Filip Vandueren]

Most people would say it is best to create the entire text in another app like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, then import that text , scale it untill the width looks ok and just animate it’s position with two keyframes.

You can create a text-layer in AE and animate that, but it’s said to be a slower workflow, especially with very long texts.

there is some discussion as to what the optimal speeds are, but be sure to add some vertical blur to make sure you don’t get frame or interlace-flicker.

definately render using fields !

And do a search on the cow for “rolling credits” or “scroll text”, you might find some more recipes.

[Filip Vandueren]

No,

After effects works on video files like quicktimes or AVIs, not on live video-streams.
It also doesn’t apply it’s effects in realtime, but has to render them out to a new quicktime or avi.

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After pasting it, use the shortcut: Alt-Home

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Eric,

as for the Website,
If you could do a grep-replace like this on the text:
(this is in BBEdit’s Grep dialect, which is I believe based on Perl)

Find:
(]*>\s*)\r+|\r(\s*]*>\s*)\r
Replace by
\1\2

(here’s the HTML version for the website):
Find:
(</?[^/>]*>\s*)\r+|\r(\s*</[^>]*>\s*)\r
Replace by
\1\2

then do the \r to BR-conversion then that would solve the whitespace problem in creating lists and such.
I’ve been testing it, and it seems to get all the offending newlines out while leaving alone others. It might still trip somewhere, so I’ll keep on trying it on different kinds of source-code.

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Methinks you would get a huge headache from trying to code something like that.
Do it the fake way 😉