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AV News 201- August 2015
Andrew Chadwick
Back in the November 2013 issue of AV News, a letter from me on behalf of Hull YPI Camera Club AV Group appeared, asking if there were other AV groups who would like to take part in a sequence exchange. The idea was that we would send a selection of our members’ sequences to any participating group in exchange for a selection of theirs. In the end two groups responded, and we agreed that the exercise was very enjoyable and beneficial.
Seeing sequences from people outside the group brings fresh ideas and inspiration. It is also always beneficial to discover what other people think of your sequences and so we encouraged the other groups to send us their comments. A not insignificant benefit was that we filled two nights in our programme!
We are hoping to do the same thing this season and are looking for any other groups willing to take part.
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To quickly create a text mask-
Open Objects and Animation and create a text object. Adjust the size and font as required. The colour and drop shadow don’ t matter.
On the Properties Tab of the text object, click the‘ Rasterize text to PNG image’ check box. Ignore the message and click OK. Save the png image in your images folder with an appropriate name.
Delete the text object.
To use the mask, create a Mask Object and in the initial Add Mask dialogue, select Image or Video then browse for the png image that you saved in the above step.
Add an image to the mask object to see the effect.
By animating the image behind the mask you can create some interesting title effects as shown above.
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