Is there a massive bug in the animation timeline for text boxes? I tried both studio HD platinum 11, and just bought 12.0 in hopes that it would solve the problem. It has not solved it.
My goal is to animate a 1-second color flash of text, before the text returns to a normal sustained color. This is not working.
1) When opening text animation (with cursors set to sync together), the animation cursor is not correctly mapped to the vegas timeline. Usually the start of the animation cursor does not correspond to the start of the selected clip I'm editing, and neither does the end...it's a random location.
Sometimes it does correspond (eg the clip is 3 seconds, so there are 3 seconds in the animation timeline), but usually not. Usually it is 1/10th second in the animation timeline, regardless of how long the clip is, with a random start. There is no ability to zoom out, so it's not a zoom issue.
Putting down a keyframe thus usually results in nonsensical and random animation behavior.
2) There are little "notches" in the top of the text box frame if the text is set to sustain long enough, and these notches repeat regularly. Every time the cursor gets to those notches, the animation repeats again (correctly mapped or not), even if I only set ONE keyframe at the start of the animation timeline.
Of course, since the animation timeline is only 1/10th sec long, I can't see the rest of the timeline to tell if more keyframes were magically added.
My goal is to animate a 1-second color flash of text, before the text returns to a normal sustained color. This is not working.
1) When opening text animation (with cursors set to sync together), the animation cursor is not correctly mapped to the vegas timeline. Usually the start of the animation cursor does not correspond to the start of the selected clip I'm editing, and neither does the end...it's a random location.
Sometimes it does correspond (eg the clip is 3 seconds, so there are 3 seconds in the animation timeline), but usually not. Usually it is 1/10th second in the animation timeline, regardless of how long the clip is, with a random start. There is no ability to zoom out, so it's not a zoom issue.
Putting down a keyframe thus usually results in nonsensical and random animation behavior.
2) There are little "notches" in the top of the text box frame if the text is set to sustain long enough, and these notches repeat regularly. Every time the cursor gets to those notches, the animation repeats again (correctly mapped or not), even if I only set ONE keyframe at the start of the animation timeline.
Of course, since the animation timeline is only 1/10th sec long, I can't see the rest of the timeline to tell if more keyframes were magically added.