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Jul 14, 2011 1:38 PM in response to Brian Fassby David Bogie Chq-1,You'll need a bit more guidance. Ticker tape is an anachronism from the 1930s. A scrolling strip is more current but that display has changed radically with changes in technologies.
Doing a period piece?
bogiesan
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Jul 14, 2011 2:06 PM in response to David Bogie Chq-1by mark133,Either way, you have complete flexibility in Motion with a motion path for text?
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Jul 14, 2011 2:15 PM in response to mark133by David Bogie Chq-1,Not really, you can't get a tape to bend through 3D space. Glyphs will follow the path and orient one way or another but creating a ribbon is difficult. Not impossible. But we're still waiting to see what project we're advising on.
bogiesan
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Jul 14, 2011 2:29 PM in response to David Bogie Chq-1by Brian Fass,Sorry I should have been clearer I was just using the words ticker tape. We just want it to scroll across the screen (not sure where..that might be up to my creative selection) like a ticker tape and does not require any special look to it.
Brian
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Jul 14, 2011 2:56 PM in response to David Bogie Chq-1by mark133,Wow, that was my first time trying out the 3-D text path possibilities. These tools are almost unbelievable.
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Jul 14, 2011 4:12 PM in response to Brian Fassby mark133,You should type 'text motion path' in the Motion help window.
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Jul 14, 2011 4:23 PM in response to Brian Fassby Meg The Dog,In FCP, click on the Generator Button (the button with the "A" on it in the lower right corner of the Viewer) and from the drop down menu, choose Boris > Title Crawl.
Edit that to the timeline (it will be empty) where you want your text crawl to take place, then double click on the clip you just edited to load it to the viewer. Click on the Controls Tab, then the "Title Crawl" button. This will bring up the pane where you can enter and stylize your text.
When you have your text entered, click apply to have the text appear on the timeline. Depending on the horse power and complexity of the material the crawl is place on, you may have to render to see the effect play back in real time.
You can use the other controls under the control tab to make other adjustments.
MtD
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Jul 14, 2011 5:21 PM in response to David Bogie Chq-1by mark133,If I created a frame-by-frame animation of an object on the path, and then saved a new project for each letter on the object, then loaded all 'projects' and offset the motion path to align each letter, how would that score on efficiency for a 3-D ribbon?
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Jul 14, 2011 6:40 PM in response to mark133by mark133,You can't keyframe a rotation of a group? That seems like an imposed limitation?
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Jul 14, 2011 10:39 PM in response to mark133by mark133,I think a 3-D ribbon with a typed-on text variable is not possible.
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Jul 15, 2011 3:26 AM in response to David Bogie Chq-1by mark133,It's nice to learn about the adjust glyph tool to pick out characters from text for controls. But the 'ribbon' factor has me wondering, why on earth Apple displays text wrapping around cylinders, etc, on the pre-formed i-Movie DVD menu selections. I had thought they were using those pre-formed designs to display what CAN be done on the software, if you have the time. Apparently, they were displaying what you CAN'T do?
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Jul 15, 2011 6:23 AM in response to mark133by mark133,But hey!, when a novice can do this in less than 20 minutes without trying, who cares??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxidbPkXavI
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Jul 19, 2011 9:40 AM in response to Meg The Dogby Brian Fass,I lost you around controls tab. I have a title slug in the timeline and I got a four triangle shape in the viewer. The title slug needs to be rendered but I have no text yet what are the next steps.
Brian
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Jul 19, 2011 10:37 AM in response to Brian Fassby Brian Fass,Since I can't do this at the moment could some please tell me how to get this four triangular object in the viewer.
Brian