text wipe popping?
by Scott Army
on
Jun 29, 2008 at 7:48:45 am
Hi all,
I was attempting to follow Aharon's old podcast for text wipes again. Everything went pretty smoothly for the most part. However, once I had finished and gone back to give stuff a final once over, I noticed that at the start and end of the wipe, pieces of the text will "pop" brighter until the end of the animation. I cannot account for this with keys for anything I've adjusted and watching the animated mask doesn't show any odd behavior. What could be causing this?
A couple of details about my stuff. The text was made in Photoshop and brought into AE. I believe I converted it to AE text. I used layer styles like a gradient when originally creating the text in PS. And there are different font sizes with different characters. I noticed that when it transitions from large to small text, the small text brightens up. But I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here. Any ideas?
Re: text wipe popping? by Scott Army on Jul 1, 2008 at 7:35:17 pm
Hey Aharon,
Been busy with my baby being sick but I'll try and post some stuff tonight. The original files looks like it was imported as footage. I have since reimported as cropped something or other and was able to get it to work sort of. I never converted it to AE text.
I noted that I wasn't able to really see my mask's bounding box when I reimported the files unless I explicitly selected them from the timeline. When I had imported as footage I was able to see the bounding box in the screen. This was weird. Anyway, I'll try and post up two versions of the file, the one that was broken, and the one that I think I fixed.
Re: text wipe popping? by Scott Army on Jul 1, 2008 at 8:58:58 pm
Oh and.....since I did find what I thought was an acceptable workaround, I had a separate question. I originally rendered my work out of AE with a music file (as a .wav). It worked fine in AE, however, when I attempted to bring that huge avi file into Squeeze the video wouldn't appear in the preview window and compressing took multiple hours (eventually it simply failed). If I rendered out of AE minus the music and attempted to compress in Squeeze, everything was peachy and it took about 20 minutes. Any ideas why this might be happening?
Re: text wipe popping? by Aharon Rabinowitz on Jul 2, 2008 at 2:45:18 pm
In your re-render, was there any audio at all? Maybe the audio track had a problem.
Did you ever try to re-render your animation with the music and try again. I have found that sometimes Squeeze has problems with a file, but if you re-render, it works.
Also, it pays to contact squeeze tech support. they may ask you to send them the original file so that they can analyze it and advise.
Re: text wipe popping? by Scott Army on Jul 8, 2008 at 4:05:38 am
Hey Aharon,
How would I go about attaching my files to a post? Not really familiar with this type of forum structure. I did some more experimentation and noticed that importing my psd as type, "Composition -Cropped Layers", and then completing the text wipe tutorial led to some wonkiness.
In particular, I wanted to add a fade out section to some text so I added later keyframes to the mask path and basically resized the mask to the right until the text disappeared. While resizing the mask to make the text disappear I noticed that as the mask transform got close to the smaller text near the end of the wipe....that all the small text brightened. To visualize what I'm talking about, I'll give an example below:
SAMPLE TEXT WIPE (with some tiny text at the end)
So if that was my text, as my mask tranform was dragged closer to the small text in parentheses, the entire grouping "(with some tiny text at the end)" would completely brighten. Any ideas? Hopefully you can help as this has been driving me batty for days.
