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News Ticker
by joseph Wilkins (joseph wilkins) on Jul 21, 2008 at 10:48:31 pm

I have an infomercial I am creating and the client wants a continual stream of info scrolling over the bottom of the screen like a CNN newsfeed.

What's the best way to tackle this? I googled but didnt find much for it.

I have AE CS3 and Apple FC Studio 2

Your input is appreciated!

thanks

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Re: News Ticker
by Chris Wright on Jul 21, 2008 at 11:05:41 pm

distort->offset will scroll continually

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Re: News Ticker
by joseph Wilkins on Jul 21, 2008 at 11:09:39 pm

But I have a TON of text... where do I load it into AE?

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Re: News Ticker
by Simon Bonner on Jul 21, 2008 at 11:22:48 pm

You're in luck: Andrew Kramer at videocopilot.net just made two news ticker template projects for AE CS3 available. Head over to his blog and scroll down until you see them.

Simon Bonner

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Re: News Ticker
by david bogie on Jul 22, 2008 at 3:36:55 pm

[Simon Bonner] "Head over to his blog and scroll down until you see them."

Can't find Andrew's blog?

http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/

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Re: News Ticker
by Kevin Dearing on Jul 22, 2008 at 1:25:43 pm

Hi Joseph,
I'm a newbie, but I think I recall reading something about using a script to read in text from a standard text file.. Seems like that would be ideal in your situation (in conjunction with the other suggestions..) Try searching the Expressions forum - I think that's where I stumbled across the idea.. If I get some time today I'll try poking about and see if I can find it for you..

--KTFA

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Re: News Ticker
by Kevin Dearing on Jul 22, 2008 at 5:11:13 pm

Alright, I had a couple minutes to search and came up mostly blank - I did find one thread on the expressions forum where the poster was looking to load external images..

However, I think I got this from Maltaannon and I searched around there a tiny bit but didn't find it.

Knowing JavaScript you can include files using the #include directive.. Actually, I just found what I was looking for in Maltaannon's blog: here..

HTH

--KTFA

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Re: News Ticker
by Russ Moore on Jul 23, 2008 at 2:08:55 pm

Why not just make sure there are no breaks and paste the text into one text layer? Should just make one long, long line.

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Re: News Ticker
by Kevin Dearing on Jul 23, 2008 at 5:19:50 pm

Russ,
It's just my opinion and all but for me, keeping the text in an external file would be easier for me to edit when / if needed.

--KTFA

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