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Two 3D Text Crawl QuestionsNSFW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdr_2IAJWU Two questions about that type piece: 1) What is that type of text crawling called? They were really popular a couple of years ago, and I'm sure there are lots of examples, but are they called something in particular? 2) How would you go about making one in QC? 3D Transforms, Image from Strings, and Timelines? Thanks!
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It's called "kinetic typography", and After Effects is the tool used 99.9% of the time.
Add the Iterator, as you could set up your comp and animate the iterations to add elements sequentially. Then if you drop the iterator into a Render in Image patch, I could see animating across the entire scene. Good luck with it. Unless you're doing real time text crawls for broadcast or similar, kinetic typography is a lot of work in QC. Not necessarily to best tool for the job.My suggestion is to use an accumulator patch to store the current layout as pixels, rather than iterating over all words of your text all the time, even if they aren't visible on screen.
With this technique you are able to do endless animations and not stalling for having too many iterators. Also you don't have to care about storing all the layout information for each word, etc. However, I think it can be difficult to choose the right animation for the current word. That what you showed in the video is heavily depending on the content. I don't know how you can incorporate that. Maybe you can have some instructions for each word what the animation should look like.
FACEPALM! "Kinetic typography" -- thanks! I'll check out the iterator as well.
Cheers!
Thanks! I was worried that storing everything per-word would get really complicated, yeah -- accumulator it is!