Re: Lyric Pro Effects : Chyron

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Chyron expects you to be experts after a 3 day training - perhaps for operators this makes sense, but not for the designers. The simple action of typing text on screen is not exactly intuitive. I've had calls at home by angry users at work asking how to type out a simple full page graphic. The 'manual' (there is no physical manual) is over 1200 pages long and was obviously written by an engineer - it's not very helpful at times. If you CAN get some training, try to, because the Lyric is the least intuitive, buggiest, most infuriating software I've ever used (and I've used a lot - I SWEAR it's taken 5 years off my life). But hey, it's the industry standard (you;ll hear that a lot).

I'm afraid that you're in for a few frustrating months ahead of you. Chyron lyric takes me easily 10 times longer to create something than it would in After Effects. After Effects is the best software that I've ever used and Lyric is the worst. There are many good ideas attached to Chyron, but unfortunately there's a complete pig wrapped around it. And Chyron doesn't seem to be in any hurry to fix or update this software for the 21st century. After all, it's the industry standard.

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I haven't played with the particle effects in Lyric yet, I've tried using other effects and the page wipe - neither of which really work. I could use the page wipe almost daily, but i was told that it doesn't work on movies. Then i find that it doesn't really work on still images either. I've been told that it'll be fixed on each build - I'm still waiting after about 5 builds.

Is your pivot point where you want it? Have you checked the Z depth pivot spot? You might have to Control click the the text box and check "Use Scene Camera."

After many weeks of frustration, I created all my supers in After Effects. I created a 7:15 super movie. The first :15 frames wipe the super in and from :15 to 7:15 it loops seamlessly. You might have to do your particles in AE this way.

The one guy who really knows Lyric is Marty Dormany - He can probably help you with this issue. You can call me at 716-879-4965 at work to discuss using AE with Chyron.

Good luck,

kurt murphy