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- Introduction
- Flying Solo: Preparing the Project
- Creating Your Long Ago Text
- Building Your Opening Logo
- Animating Your Logo
- Flying Solo: Preparing Your Scrolling Text
- Making the Scrolling Text Scroll
- Changing the Speed
- Transforming the Shape of the Scrolling Text
- Animating the Scrolling Text
- Flying Solo: Adding the Star Wars Theme Music
- Flying Solo: Adding Some Project Polish
- Making Adjustments, Rendering, and Exporting
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Transforming the Shape of the Scrolling Text
Now that you have created the text, it is scrolling through space and time, and it looks the way you want, you now need to create the appropriate shape of the text block. The Star Wars “look” is for the text to start off close to the bottom of the screen and to gradually fade into space, becoming progressively smaller (and harder to read). You make this happen using the Basic 3D video effect to transform the text into the right shape and to make it appear on the right plane.
Change the Perspective
If you haven’t already done so, click anywhere in a blank area of the Timeline to exit the Titler and then switch to the
Edit workspace if that is not already displayed.
Click the Effects button to view the Effects panel.
In the Effects panel text field, type basic to bring up the Basic 3D video effect.
Select the Basic 3D effect from the Perspective Video Effects and drop it onto the Scrolling Text title clip on the Scrolling Title track.
Open the Properties view for the title by clicking the Properties button (next to the Zoom Controls), and then click the triangle next to the
Basic 3D control to view the effect’s controls.
Adjust the Tilt and Distance settings (all settings are negative):
- Swivel: -1
- Tilt: -65
- Distance to Image: -30
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