Is it possible to rotate and zoom in on text without losing quality?

Theosis wrote on 5/2/2018, 6:29 PM

I'm making these typography lyric videos, and sometimes they involve zooming in on a word and making smaller words appear around them. Here is an example:

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You'll notice that when I zoom in on the text with Event Pan/Crop, it loses quality and becomes blurry, which is obviously inevitable. What I want is a solution to this problem. A solution I immediately thought of was scaling the text instead of zooming in on it, but unfortunately that removes the ability to rotate the text, as rotating it with Event Pan/Crop will create "cut-offs" if the text is scaled to the point where the whole thing isn't on-screen.

If anyone knows of a text media generator that includes a rotate property, that would solve my problem. Any other solutions are welcome too. Any help is massively appreciated!

Comments

Marco. wrote on 5/2/2018, 6:33 PM

I'd use the Vegas ProType Titler.

Theosis wrote on 5/2/2018, 6:41 PM

I'd use the Vegas ProType Titler.

Already tried, but it has a font size cap of 10 though which is an issue. :(

EDIT: Never mind you're right, I've just noticed that I can change the scale of the text block, I can't believe I missed this. Thanks for your help! :)

Also by any chance do you know of a way to sync the timeline cursor in ProType Titler with that of the actual timeline?

Musicvid wrote on 5/2/2018, 6:46 PM

The slick solution is high resolution psd graphics of your text in Photoshop.

Marco. wrote on 5/3/2018, 4:46 AM

"Also by any chance do you know of a way to sync the timeline cursor in ProType Titler with that of the actual timeline?"

Unfortunately this is a missing feature in ProType Titler.

Theosis wrote on 5/3/2018, 5:28 AM

"Also by any chance do you know of a way to sync the timeline cursor in ProType Titler with that of the actual timeline?"

Unfortunately this is a missing feature in ProType Titler.

Okay. If I want to find a text media generator that contains the features I want, is it worth starting a new thread? I've already done research and can't seem to find any.

Marco. wrote on 5/3/2018, 8:36 AM

ProType Titler, Titles & Text, Legacy Text – all of these Vegas Pro titlers allow for vector scaling while you could rotate by using Track Animation or Pan/Crop.

Legacy Text and Titles & Text allow for timeline synchronization while ProType Titler has a build-in rotation and better typografy options.

Theosis wrote on 5/3/2018, 12:16 PM

ProType Titler, Titles & Text, Legacy Text – all of these Vegas Pro titlers allow for vector scaling while you could rotate by using Track Animation or Pan/Crop.

Legacy Text and Titles & Text allow for timeline synchronization while ProType Titler has a build-in rotation and better typografy options.

Like I said, scaling the text and rotating it using Pan/Crop isn't an option because if it gets to the point where I scale the text to the point where not all of it is displayed, rotating/panning would result in it being cut off.

Marco. wrote on 5/3/2018, 2:24 PM

Sorry, Pan/Crop isn't the way to go then. But you could use Track Motion instead.