Graphics

I'm trying to create a crawl with a background that should be static (or an animation). I want the crawl to run over this background.

Unfortunately, when I create the crawl with the background on it, the background moves with the text. Is there a way around this? I thought maybe making a renderview of either the text or the background might work, but I don't even know how to make a renderview.

Also, is there a way to make the text editable in ENPS? If I put the crawl into a scene group, then the crawl and the crawl scene group both show up in the ENPS plugin. However, if I try to put the one that has the text field on it (the actual scene) into a script, it doesn't run. But if I put the scene group into the script I can't edit the text field.

Thanks!

Well, I got around the inputting text through ENPS by creating a datalinq file instead. Now if we want to change the crawl, we can just change the text file. Easy enough.

I still don't have a clue how to make it use a background that doesn't roll/crawl with the text.

#XPression

Your background should be a layer within the scene group itself, not a child scene of it (I assume you're putting it as a child scene at the same level as the text scenes).

#XPression

I'm not sure I follow what you are saying. I have a scene group called Phone Bank Crawl, with 1 scene in it, called Phone Bank Crawl - do not use (that way a producer doesn't pull the scene, just the scene group). That scene has 2 elements, the background on a quad and the text.

Are you saying that I should have a scene with the background graphic as a separate scene in the scene group, and put it on a different layer?

If I do that then the background still crawls, but it's after the text goes by. I want the text to crawl over the background. Basically what's happening now is that the whole thing starts off screen, and then you see the background slide into the screen, and the text follows. I've made the background as wide as the text field, so when the text runs out, the background follows it off screen, then loops and starts over again.

What I'm trying to do is to have a background, whether it's static or animation, at the bottom of the screen with text crawling from right to left over that background. I'm not really sure what you mean by making the background a layer within the scene group. The scene group of a crawl or roll just crawls or rolls each scene in the group. How do I get the crawl to put itself over a background that doesn't crawl or roll?

I tried this a long time ago with a roll instead of a crawl. I had a fullscreen background that I wanted to roll text over. When I tried it, the background moved with the text as well. I now just key that particular roll over a background coming out of our video server. Unfortunately, that doesn't work with my current objective as I want to run a crawl for an entire show.

Thanks!

#XPression

I understand what you're wanting, but maybe I need to explain it better. Try the following in Layout mode (F3):



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