Working with two different continuous animations at the same time can be frustrating. I suppose another way is to have a dedicated scene director that only controls the fade up, movement left to right, and then the fade out. Add to that a jump to a specific frame and it might do what you want. I'm not sitting at my Xpression right now to give it a try, but this might take care of what you need. If you want to go that way, I can fire up my Xpression and give it a try. Good Luck.
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Malcolm Thorpe
Free Lance Xpression Designer/Carbonite TD
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-06-2023 15:52
From: Michele Hampton
Subject: Looping a Texture - Flare that moves across a lower third bar
Hi Paul
Thank you for your note. I watched the continuous animation video and I thought it could be that before I posted on the Ross site. Just not easy, yet, to get the flare to travel from left to right on the lower third bar then dissolve out. Then dissolve back up at the start point and travel back down the bar again. Need this to keep looping.
Any tips on this?
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Michele Lee Hampton
Graphics Operator
Hermosa Beach, CA
Original Message:
Sent: 10-05-2023 23:39
From: Paul
Subject: Looping a Texture - Flare that moves across a lower third bar
Sounds like a job for continuous animation.
https://www.rossvideo.com/resources/ross-university/continuous-animation-basics/
Skip ahead to 19 minutes for an example of a flare/glow animating over a lower third.
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Paul
Original Message:
Sent: 10-05-2023 18:19
From: Michele Hampton
Subject: Looping a Texture - Flare that moves across a lower third bar
I have a scene that is a lower third that has a couple of video materials. I know need to animate a flare along the bar which is just a TGA.
I need it to go from left to right dissolve off and then loop back to the left and animate across the bar again over and over.
I don't see where I can just make my group flare (because there is a top and bottom TGA flare) as an event in a scene director.
I am thinking it is easy, I am just not able to figure it out.
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Michele Lee Hampton
Graphics Operator
Hermosa Beach, CA
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