Animated text presets

[Edalia]

Hi everyone.

I've started doing a lot of animated captions for shows and I've so far been either animating everything in after effects and importing them as videos into isadora, or using text draw but not being satisfied with the kinds of animation I can do with the text...until now.

Last night i had a play with easing and working the animation timing with curves and I'm so happy with my progress I'd like to share it with you. 

This is a work in progress, though. I've still got a lot to refine and neaten up but the aim is to end up with a set of animated presets in user actors for a line of up to 42 characters, reading the captions from a text file, so that it's easy to update the script as changes come in. 

So far I've got 4 animation presets for moving a picture onscreen, and a setup where i can switch between different lines of 6 characters, with each character animating on separately.

Here's the a folder with the isadora file as well as videos of it in action:

Animated Text Presets Folder

I'm not sure when I'll have time to carry on with this exploration so I thought it best to share where i'm at in case it's helpful to anyone.

Edalia

[DusX]

@edalia

Nice work. These will be very useful effects once wrapped up as reusable User Actors.
Once you have them in a state where you are happy with them, perhaps you would be kind enough to share them with the community by adding them to the Add-Ons page?

[Edalia]

@dusx

Hi

Yes! That's my aim.