[John Frank]

Nah I have the 3D space checked and everything

here’s what I’m doing:

I make abunch of text layers, make it “pre-comp”, then I add a Camera, then I add a null object, I parent the camera to the null object (everythings in 3d space, I have active camera sellected under preview window) and try to change the position, and it doesn’t zoom into the text or anything, alternatively I tried using camera without null too, and it wouldn’t do it, any idea?

[John Frank]

Thanks for the help Todd!

I have another question now;

I’m trying to follow this tutorial: https://aetuts.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/design-rhythmic-motion-typography-in-after-effects/#comment-1654

and I’m having a bit of trouble with the Camera, a few other people had this problem too in the comments but no one helped them, maybe they had trials too?

anyway here’s the problem:

“I couldn’t get the null object part to work. I linked the null object to the camera and using the position sliders to zoom the camera in and out on the text as explained in the tutorial, nothing happens, no zooming in out, it looks like the camera is doing something, but no movement in objects. Looking at the tutorial everything seems to match up the same, but no movement. Any ideas.”

[John Frank]

well it seems it doesn’t have it, or maybe I just can’t find it yet lol

anyway, this is my first time in the application, I have read about it alot though! But it kept crashing when i was adding effects and applying them on clips “like blur” so I turned off the “OPENGL support” in preview, and it fixed it! (maybe my gfx card has an issue with it, it’s an 8800GT) Anyway is there any disadvantage to having openGL turned off? everything still seems fast to me, what does opengl do anyway

Oh! And let me just say one thing: I REALLY like this intereface, it gives off a professional type of feeling, and how the effects are applied, I can’t wait till I get to play with it more tomorrow, before I had only ever used sony vegas

edit2///

Is it normal for it to take a while to load the “ram preview” stuff when you apply effects? I have a:
64 x2 5000+ amd processor, 2gb ram, 8800gt

[John Frank]

Hey, thanks for your reply!

I’m mainly wanting After Effects for 3D compositing, I just saw the price for CS4 and ack… I’m wondering if there are other versions *earlier version* I can buy for cheaper, that give the same amount of features in the 3D environment?

[John Frank]

I’m using the text media generator, I can only change the size within there and when I go any bigger then the frame it gets cut off err…

Also with the 3D space, it like takes a snapshot of whats there, so if I imported a 2000×2000 text from photoshop, and put it in the 3D space with it zoomed out it’d get pixelated when i zoomed in, or when its larger then frame it’ll get cut off…

[John Frank]

Hey, I actually figured out the problem before, but thanks for responding!

If I have all tracks on 3D motion I get full 3D space and can move anything anywhere, before if I had all on source alpha the child tracks would be cutting off… I did create my own typography (though it sucks! Went by too fast lol)

Another problem is that I can’t zoom in text in Vegas without them getting pixelated, I tried everything revolving around the text media generators in Vegas (I’m using 7.0 btw)

[John Frank]

Hey rob,

I just tried what you said and when I changed the dimensions inside the media generator it ends up cutting off the letters here:

https://img13.imageshack.us/my.php?image=02112009233300lw5.jpg

I also tried some other things, and I don’t think it’s possible to do this on one parent track, (inless you make all your text size really small and zoom in 🙁 )

I think even if I did manage to resize the “seen” to the proper size, it would still get cut off because the parent track is a square right, and it got moved to the side a bit then flipped, so it’s cutting off anything in childs tracks that try to go past that length

I guess I’ll need to find a some parents to babysit my other childs (wow that was lame lol) or I could go buy AE, I was looking at AE and wow it has alot more features involving 3D and animation then vegas does, if only vegas could implement a camera option for the 3D stuff, it would be perfect ;_;

[John Frank]

Sorry for double posting, but to give you guys a better understanding here’s a link to the tutorial I’m trying to copy:

https://aetuts.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/design-rhythmic-motion-typography-in-after-effects/

yes I know it’s for AE, and in the tutorial he has a 3D space camera, I think that’s the reason I’m failing at it cause vegas just moves the objects around, there is no camera (atleast to my knowledge)

[John Frank]

That’s kind of tricky but I understand, It should work I’ll go try it, thanks!