best practices for animated text?

slacy wrote on 4/27/2005, 11:42 AM

Hi all,

I have a five-second clip with zooming text. In your experience, are they any settings required to render this sequence as smoothly as possible? Should I disable resampling? Anything else?

I apologize if this is a hopelessly naive question. While I do a lot of basic editing in Vegas, I don't often employ motion graphics.

Scott

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Chienworks wrote on 4/27/2005, 12:20 PM

If you use track motion, create the text at the maximum size you want it to appear, then only reduce it. If you use track motion to enlarge it will pixellate. Probably a better idea is to create the text event larger than the frame size and use pan/crop to zoom in or out (as you would with photographs), and use the placement tab in the text generator to position it.

Resampling shouldn't have anything to do with it at all. The text is always generated at the project/render frame rate.

slacy wrote on 4/27/2005, 12:45 PM

Hey Kelly. Thanks for the insights. How about supersampling? Is that useful in this scenario?

Chienworks wrote on 4/27/2005, 12:57 PM

Supersampling would help if you want a motion blur or motion trails. I can't think of any other reason it would be useful though.

slacy wrote on 4/27/2005, 1:00 PM

The motion blur will help create a smoother-looking zoom, right? If so, perhaps it's worth looking into....

Chienworks wrote on 4/27/2005, 1:07 PM

Smoother, maybe. But also fuzzier too. Use sparingly.