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jetdv wrote on 3/15/2004, 8:02 PM
I'm afraid you'll have to look outside of Vegas to perform this task. You might want to take a look at Boris or Cool 3D.
ibliss wrote on 3/15/2004, 8:03 PM
I made an example VEG file of how to do this quite a while ago - it's on the sundancemedia site, "sunshine rotator" but you can also download it from THIS LOCATION

You basically set up the letters on seperate tracks, and then control all of these tracks with the motion of a single parent track - you should be able to make sense of this by examining the sample project above.
jetdv wrote on 3/15/2004, 8:26 PM
Ahh... The old use a different track for each letter trick. That could work!
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/15/2004, 8:55 PM
Wow, I had no idea you could control the motion of multiple tracks with a parent track by compositing them. That’s a great trick. I learn something new every day on this forum.

~jr
BillyBoy wrote on 3/15/2004, 9:35 PM
Well lets see, if you want to be more dramatic another approach would be to do it so the words are 3D and actually rotate around a globe that's the earth with it slowly revolving on its axis and the letters one by one disappearing behind the earth. That's cool, but over used.

The problem would be how many words, and the size of the earth. If you got a lot to say the letters got to be small or the globe big. Better for short messages.

There is no such thing as a "circular font" You need to alter the "Z" space and set up a path. While you cn do it in Vegas, with track motion, pan/crop and the 3D pluginPac too much a pain that way and much simpler if you do it in a 3D application or something that supports more math functions. For example its easy in Flash.

TorS wrote on 3/16/2004, 12:31 AM
Ibliss' tip will work for you. Very good tip that. Use a condensed font (narrow), loosely spaced and with only Upper case letters. Don't use the text generator shadow - as its "light source" will rotate with the letters. Use the track motion shadow instead. Consider having your text three times around the circle instead of two. More work, but it might look better.
Tor