Help: how to make typing effect with a blinking cursor?

Hi,
I'm trying to have some text typed out on the screen with a blinking cursor at the end of the text as it's being typed out.
I try the "type on" effect, but couldn't figure out how to do the blinking cursor effect. Is there a plug in out there for that?
Thanks.

Posted on Sep 23, 2005 11:21 AM

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Kevin Chan Author

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Sep 27, 2005 9:48 AM in response to David Bogie Chq-1

Thanks David
I'll try to do key framing .. i'm just lazy I guess. :P
Hope the client don't want to change the speed of the type on 🙂 otherwise I'll have to re-key frame it.
kevin

Kevin Chan Author

Level 1

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Sep 27, 2005 9:50 AM in response to specialcase

oh.. it does work with Motion? That's good. cos lost of AE plugin crashes Motion.
But $300 for this low budget project.... maybe I can use it for other project later on. I'll take a better look at what the package offer. Thanks.

Sep 27, 2005 9:52 AM in response to specialcase

mage Lounge does work in Motion, just for the folks who are wondering. As David pointed out, though, it isn't exactly cheap.< </div>

Woohoo!
Base Newbie Question: Can I make the IL filter set available to BOTH applications? How do I do that?

Or, of course, just tell me "it's in the freakin' manual!" and I'll figure it out.

bogiesan

Sep 27, 2005 12:56 PM in response to Kevin Chan

Ooh! Ooh!
You can use a MIDI input to control almost anything in Motion. I haven't got one but it looks like you can directly control the blinking and movement of the cursor with some clever MIDI work.
I can't figure it out myself yet, but it also looks like you could control the progress of the type-on effect with a MIDI input. Banging on a piano key for each character.

bogiesan

Sep 28, 2005 11:49 AM in response to specialcase

I have it for AE 6.5 and tried it in Motion 2 and it didn't work for me.

I tried key framing the "Typing Completion" and it just jumps from 0 to 100 with no tweening.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

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