Simon Ubsdell
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I thought that Point At only gave you the option of one axis? I guess you’d need to have three instances if you wanted it completed locked.
Link rotation is marginally easier in this case possibly?
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Try linking the XYZ rotation of the Text layer (or text group) to the rotation of the camera. That should do it.
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You normally wouldn’t expect to see much difference if any in the Viewer between Normal and Best quality with a graphic like this which suggests you may well have a graphics card issue.
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Easiest way is to make the text layers 2D rather than 3D. Would that work for your project?
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Duplicate the text layer and rotate it on the X axis through 180 degree. Then simply invert the value of the Y centre control point.
For the “shadow” I simply used a value of +109 instead of -109 for the control point 2 Y value.
Hope that makes sense.
EDIT: Sorry, I misread your post and didn’t realise you were using Path/Geometry, which does cause the problems you are encountering. Try using Open Spline instead of Geometry and you can control thing much more easily.
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[Mark Dobson] “For instance has anybody tried out the superb new White Balance tool in iMovie.”
Yes, I have, and it falls into the usual Apple just-about-good-enough-but-not-very-much-more-than-that category of offering.
There are better solutions out there …
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Yes, good points. I hadn’t actually looked at this clip to see what you’re seeing but that makes sense.
It could suggest that the PS$ logo is the part that’s been digitised (including its sub black) whereas the rest is/are imported graphic(s).
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[Jeremy Garchow] “The black on most of the screen is raised. What I thought would be super black is not, it’s just 0 black.”
See my point above – all graphics come in at zero black rather than proper sub blacks (that is if there were sub blacks to start with).
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When importing graphic files FCP X doesn’t give you the full dynamic range by default and instead scales it down to fit into 0-100 IRE – unless you stretch it back out.
Compare these two screenshots of the same grayscale ramp imported as a TIFF from Shake. The first is the import as it comes in, the second is the same thing stretched out using the color board.
This might explain why the blacks were sat up in this particular case.
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[Nikolas Bäurle] “Hey Simon, thanks for the advice. That was the next thing I was going to try, I kind of liked the shape I got with the emitter, let’s see what I can figure out.”
Try looking at some of the Shape Styles in the library to see how you can use shapes for some pretty amazing effects. There are loads of great ideas buried in there.
Add your own points and edit them and then use write-on or animate the start/endpoint offsets.
I can’t recommend this technique enough – it’s one of Motion’s really strong features.
[Nikolas Bäurle] “By the way, I really had fun with your particle collision tutorial last week. Next week I’ll be doing some lens flares :-)”
Really glad to hear it, thanks 🙂
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