3D Titles/Text animation with keyframes, or?

A Bogus Exception

Newbie Joined: Jan 01, 2016 08:45 Messages: 14 Offline

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Aug 06, 2016 19:04

Just looking to have an extruded text rotate about an axis slightly, then back, during a title animation/clip. Ease in/out, the usual stuff.

Problem is, keyframes are for 2D (with no perspective adjustments to even fake it), and 3D has no keyframes! So if you position the 3D text, that is it... it has to stay in that position (this is where I can go no further)...

Please tell me someone knows how to do this... or that I should stop fiddling with it an dreading docs... :)

thank you!

PD Ult. 64-bit v14.0.2820.0 Continuous member since the AVID, Pinnacle days... Cyberlink erased my original profile (dohh!) so now I'm a newbie again!

ynotfish

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

Aug 08, 2016 00:38

Hi A Bogus Exception -

I thought someone should try to help you out before your post disappears off the front page.

What you've found about the lack of keyframing with 3D-like titles is correct.

If you use NewBlue Titler Pro, you should be able to achieve what you want. After you format your title, look under Effects and select Turn > Slow Turn - then turn on keyframing. Add the keyframes where you want, then set each one.

Attached is a screenshot of the NBTP Effects workspace & a produced file showing the sort of title I think you're after.

Cheers - Tony

Filename	NBTP Turn.wmv	Download
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Filesize	1193 Kbytes
Downloaded:	1187 time(s)


Filename	NBTP TurnPauseTurn.png	Download
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Filesize	62 Kbytes
Downloaded:	20 time(s)

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Scott7268

Newbie Joined: Nov 05, 2018 01:55 Messages: 5 Offline

Oct 18, 2020 22:14

Quote Hi A Bogus Exception -

I thought someone should try to help you out before your post disappears off the front page.

What you've found about the lack of keyframing with 3D-like titles is correct.

If you use NewBlue Titler Pro, you should be able to achieve what you want. After you format your title, look under Effects and select Turn > Slow Turn - then turn on keyframing. Add the keyframes where you want, then set each one.

Attached is a screenshot of the NBTP Effects workspace & a produced file showing the sort of title I think you're after.

Cheers - Tony

I'm using PD 19 and the bundled NewBlue 1.5.

Every example showing NewBlue shows a solid, static background. I want my 3D title to follow a path on my video. Your original advice was back in 2016. Has anything changed?