Hi Hiielind,
Thanks for checking out our PDtoots Channel on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PDtoots
Yes, Neil was on the right track.
The PDtoots logo was created in PD8’s Title Designer room, using the “Xerography” font and applying the orange and red colors (in a gradient), on a custom 1280x720 white color board.
The Xerography font can be downloaded here (as well as from many other font sites).
http://www.dafont.com/xerography.font
Then a snapshot of the orange/red logo text was made using the Snapshot tool in PD8, and the snapshot was imported into the “Paint.net” program.
(Note: Paint.net is a pseudo Photo Shop type image editing program, which is free)
http://download.cnet.com/Paint-NET/3000-2192_4-10338146.html
In Paint.net, I made some minor adjustments to the logo, and created the shadowing, and then placed it all on a transparent background, and saved as a .png image file.
The word “Tutorials” was also created as text in Paint.net (for convenience), using black letters on a white 1280x720 background), which was saved as a separate image file.
Then the above elements (and a custom 1280x720 B&W color board), were imported into a new PD8 project and placed in the PIP tracks, where...
- Motion paths were applied using PIP Designer.
- Chroma Key was used on the black “Tutorials” text.
- The Fireworks Particle Effect (with modified color and path), was placed in a PIP track under the chroma keyed (black) “Tutorials” text, so the particle effect would show through the text and appear only “in” that Tutorials text/word.
And finally the "channel address text" at the bottom, was created in PD8’s Title Designer, using the “Flip” Animation Properties setting.
Basically, it was just a bit of layering of things using the Master, PIP, and Text tracks. The Paint.net step could have be skipped, but having the option to tweak images and graphics and create .png files with transparent backgrounds, just seems to make it easier to compile, construct, and animate such elements or graphics in PD8.
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