Add motion to a title?

studioWI

Newbie Joined: Aug 16, 2011 23:03 Messages: 7 Offline

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Aug 26, 2011 14:32

Hi all-

Noob here and I've been watching the tutorial vids on YouTube that you guys have made. One effect caught my eye and this was a title that came from off the screen, entered from the right, and then zoomed in, making it appear to pretty much fly at me.

Where/how do I add that?

I've pretty much ruled out a standard title, seeing no real motion option and magic motion won't work on a title either.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I, as always, appreciate any insight.

-s.w

ClancM

Senior Member Location: New York Joined: May 26, 2011 22:19 Messages: 175 Offline

Aug 26, 2011 15:34

I'm not 100% sure what you mean, could you provide a link to the video so the editors can get a better understanding of what you mean.
But from the sound of it what you need to do is to produce a video of just the tittle or take a snapshot of it. You can then use this snapshot or video as a PIP image, meaning you can add your own motion path to it.

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Online

Aug 26, 2011 18:31

Hi studioWI -

A little along the lines of what Clancy has suggested, you can make your title as a .png with a transparent background then add motion to it.

In the attached project, when you check in PiP Designer you'll see the motion path at each keyframe.

Cheers - Tony

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studioWI

Newbie Joined: Aug 16, 2011 23:03 Messages: 7 Offline

Aug 27, 2011 08:11

Hi Tony & Clancy-

Now that I can't seem to locate the video which I referred to, I'll mention that it's eerily similar to your (Tony's) little project.

I'll experiment this weekend and look into some keyframes tuts.

Thank you both of you.

-s.w

EDIT" Hmmmm. I have a total of 4 keyframes and the 'speed' of the effect changes dramatically throughout the course of the effect. How do I control the 'zoom' factor more precisely than just eyeballing it? Is that what's causing the 'title' to change speed?

Thanks for all your help. I'm slowly getting better.

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ClancM

Senior Member Location: New York Joined: May 26, 2011 22:19 Messages: 175 Offline

Aug 27, 2011 11:04

By zoom do you mean the speed. If so, it kind of goes like this.
A PIP object that's 10 seconds for example has to travel from keyframe 1 to the last keyframe in those 10 seconds. So the further apart the keyframes are the faster it will have to go. Alternatively if you have a very short distance over a long period of time the object will move slowly to take a hypothetical 10 seconds to finish that path. If you have two close keyframes that cover a small amount of space the object will go slow between those two and speed p again after that.

As for the size, you can use a grid for more precise resizing, but its mostly just trying out one size playing it back and changing it if you need to.

Hope this helped!

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studioWI

Newbie Joined: Aug 16, 2011 23:03 Messages: 7 Offline

Aug 27, 2011 13:36

Quote: By zoom do you mean the speed. If so, it kind of goes like this.
A PIP object that's 10 seconds for example has to travel from keyframe 1 to the last keyframe in those 10 seconds. So the further apart the keyframes are the faster it will have to go. Alternatively if you have a very short distance over a long period of time the object will move slowly to take a hypothetical 10 seconds to finish that path. If you have two close keyframes that cover a small amount of space the object will go slow between those two and speed p again after that.

As for the size, you can use a grid for more precise resizing, but its mostly just trying out one size playing it back and changing it if you need to.

Hope this helped!

You bet it did Clancy. I now have information that I didn't have before, so...