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Hi. Use a copy of your text as a track matte.
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Hi. Precompose the shape/text with the effects applied.
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Hi Ella, look up “boomerang effect”. That’s probably the culprit.
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Hi. May not be the quickest/easiest method (?) but… create a vertical stroke/line at the beginning of the graph and keyframe it’s X position to travel to the end in the time you need. Now keyframe the object to match the stroke/line’s position.
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Hi. If your text has an alpha background create a white solid, place it under the text and set its Track Matte setting to Alpha (if you can’t see the TrkMat box on the layer press the Toggle Switches/Modes button at the bottom of the screen). If you have a solid black background add the Curves effect and drag the line so that it sits along the top of the box.
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The simplest way to do this is to turn your elements into 3D layers and position them in Z space. Create a Null, make it 3D, parent the other layers to it then keyframe the Null’s Z position. Leave your background as a 2D layer and it will not move with the other elements.
If you want to fade things in/out keyframe their opacity.
You can also rotate the Null and have elements come into view that are above/below/beside/outside your initial view.
A more complex way of doing it is to use a camera – though I don’t think your example uses one. -
Hi Manu. If you have rotoscoped something then you should only be able to see the thing you have rotoscoped, so that’s the only thing you will see with the effect applied. What do you mean “the whole shot”? You should be adding the effects to the rotoscoped layer not to an adjustment layer – if that’s what you’re doing.
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Hi David, what is your exact problem in detail? ie. I presume you have selected your shape layer and then dragged the png onto it (thus replacing it but keeping its movement) or copied the keyframes onto the png layer and sandwiched them together etc. etc. What you are saying all makes sense, what isn’t working?
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Hi Yushi. As Richard suggest “typography” (he made a mistake in spelling it) would give you a lot of information on how to do things like that. It deals with text but shapes can use similar techniques.