Hi All,
Since rear screen projection of text requires characters to be shown right to left and backwards, is there a behavior that can be used to accomplish this ? I assume this must be very common. Please let me know how it is generally done.
Thanks everyone, Cire
Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), Mac Pro mid 2010
Rotate the text 180° on the Y axis to flip it to a mirror image.
Depending on the complexity of the project though, you may want to just do it all at the end by flipping the exported movie 180° on the Y instead.
Dear schmackhaft,
That sounds like the answer all right. Just to be sure I fully understand it, I would seek the center of the text on the x-axis at which point I would flip it on the y-axis. Is that correct ?
Thank you for helping me.
Cire
Hi Again,
I tried it by just grabbing the side of the text box and it worked like a champ, and it was easy. I am also intrigued by your idea of flipping the entire movie.
I don't understand that since the movie has an order associated with it. First, how would I flip the entire movie ? Second, what would that do to the order and to the animations ? Would it not affect them ? Or does it just affect the text ? I do have quite a few text boxes in each of my movies, so this could potentially be what I want to do.
Thanks, Cire
Since you may not always be rear projecting the finished project, it may make sense to not build the project flipped. Build everything as you want it to be and export it. This movie will play normally on monitors/displays/front projectors.
Then import that movie as a new project in Motion, flip it 180 on it's Y axis via the Inspector, and export it. This will be a mirror image of the original and you can rear project it.
You are not changing anything other than how the movie will be viewed. All animations will the same.
Thank you very much.
Rear screen projection of text in Motion
