[Marc Nibor]

A drop shadow would work of course… but it’s not exactly the look i’m after.

something similar to the one i described is if you use an overlay blending mode on a text layer above the image…
but this also only works in a few cases and depends very much on the underlaying colors. – i am looking for an effect that is somehow similar, but arrures the readablilty of the text – no matter what color is beneath it.

[Marc Nibor]

PERFECT!
Thanks alot Bill. This is exactly what I was looking for.

If anyone has yet another idea about how to make text on top of images easy readable without the use of a plain panel then please let me know or post a link to an example.

thank you guys

EDIT:
sorry,… just ran into one more problem whcih i forgot to mention earlier.
if i use white text for example and a plain white area moves under the text, it obviously becomes “invisible”.
i don’t want to use a stroke on the text…. but i remember seeing something where the text somehow “changes color” depending on what’s below it. somehow like the brighter area below it is, the darker it becomes and the other way around…

but i dont remember how to do this… does anyone know what I mean?

[Marc Nibor]

Thanks Brian
that was exactly the one I was looking for!

found already the anser to my second question in the manual…
it’s – double tap S

[Marc Nibor]

>>Or you can poke a hole through your layer using a mask, comp it on >>top of itself and shift 1-2 pixels (the direction depends on the >>shapes in the footage)

what a great idea!!

[Marc Nibor]

… just trying random numbers might not fix it. the numbers should match. so you need to compare the framerate of your project and the footage that you use. if they do not match try what I wrote in the other post before.

one last thing i can think of… some codec packs and mediaplayers – especially if combined – tend to mess up your system and cause “jumpy” playback of certain files.
just to be sure you might wanna try to play your movie on a different “clean” machine, maybe with a different media player.
i have seen cases where nothing was wrong with the file… there was just a slight playback issue with certain formats on a specific machine.

…and by the way, pixel aspect ratio should not be an issue.

[Marc Nibor]

just an idea…. did you check if your project has the same framerate as your footage?

if not, you might try – rightclicking on your footage in the project window > interpret footage > main > conform to framerate.

[Marc Nibor]

thank you.

just saved your solution for the next time ; )

[Marc Nibor]

Hi Jason,
thanks for taking the time to answer.

i just did a quick test and i seems to work ; )

rove across time was greyed out… but i guess i’ll figure out the reason later.

[Marc Nibor]

Thank you Walter,

PulpFX looks very nice. I watched the demomovies and I’m getting the Testversion right now.

About the workflow you suggested…. This is a possibility I have not considered yet and it probably would produce good looking results.
Only for what I have to do, none of the “handmade” solutions is worth the effort. I need a couple of those or similar transitions and apply it to around 100-150 images in a very limited amount of time ; )

[Marc Nibor]

I thanked him for his answer. Maybe you missed that. But it was clearly not answering the question since I stated in my post that I know how to do this manually.

FYI: even the edit was done before any answer was posted.

… hoping that this time you actually READ my post and not just try to teach me manners.