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lola ([personal profile] lola) wrote in [community profile] vexercises2022-07-03 11:12 am
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vfxercise 3 check in

Hi all! Anyone working on their vfxercise 3? If so, how's it going?

How are you approaching your text animation? Are you using lyrIcs, or dialogue, or something else?

I decided to learn Davinci Resolve (and fusion) this summer, and so am using vfxercise 3 to kick that off... I keep falling asleep to tutorials on fusion nodes! I can't decide if this is because it's complicated, boring, or relaxing :D 




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[personal profile] extrapenguin 2022-07-07 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I decided I'd really focus on learning Blender + text animation, so I'm just using screenshots as the "vid" and animating text. It doesn't quite work as I thought it would if there's multiple locations keyframed (instead of going from A to B at a steady clip, then zooming off to C at a faster speed, the journey from A to B seems to be ...velocity-smoothed, I think, so the text almost stops in the middle) and because Blender is primarily for 3D modeling, not video editing, good luck finding a page that explains WTF is going on and how to turn it off. Static images mean static masks, which are easier to work with, though!

I'm using lyrics, but translated – I decided to pick a song in Finnish and then have the (selfmade) translation be the animated text. And! The words/sub-phrases pop up in the order the Finnish says them, not the order they come in in English!