ProType questions

RogueStorm wrote on 11/12/2007, 5:16 AM
Hello. I have been playing around with the new Pro Type titler and have a couple of specific questions... wondering if anyone could provide steps to help me complete the desired actions or has discovered these (possible) quirks?

1) Using the font style stroke (outline), I could not find a way to keyframe changing the stroke width (there is no toggle there). I also found that in trying to use opacity with stroke style, it would not function at all (yes, if I have no stroke applied, the opacity changes just fine)

2) How can I keyframe a change in font color?

3) Once I have created a text block, if I go back to EDIT TEXT mode, and make changes, when I hit ESC or double click text bar, the text disappears. The text box is still there, but no text is visible.

Any assist would be appreciated. Thanks.

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/12/2007, 7:59 AM
1) can't help, hopefully someone else can. :)

2) no. can't keyframe color at all (kinda annoying actually as the regular text plugin has it)

3) do you have the opacity down? If so, when you edit the text appears full color & then goes back to it's original opacity.
Tim Stannard wrote on 11/12/2007, 10:43 AM
3) Once I have created a text block, if I go back to EDIT TEXT mode, and make changes, when I hit ESC or double click text bar, the text disappears. The text box is still there, but no text is visible.

Kind of a dumb question, but you do realise that if you alter the position parameters of text on a path, the text block remains in its original place - seemingly orphaned from the text itself?
RogueStorm wrote on 11/12/2007, 1:15 PM
>>3) Once I have created a text block, if I go back to EDIT TEXT mode, and make changes, when I hit ESC or double click text bar, the text disappears. The text box is still there, but no text is visible.

Kind of a dumb question, but you do realise that if you alter the position parameters of text on a path, the text block remains in its original place - seemingly orphaned from the text itself?


The font that disappeared DID indeed have the opacity down (as this was the one with the stroke on the font in which I discovered the opacity didn't work). Must have left it in zero position and didn't notice until trying to edit again! So thanks to both of you for pointing me in a direction to fix it!