Flight Departures Board Animation?

Lou van Wijhe wrote on 10/11/2014, 9:55 PM

Hi-

I want to make a beginning title sequence in a flight departures board style, the one with the flipping characters. It's a lot of work to do it myself, especially as it is a one-off project. Does anyone know of software that can do this?

Tia,
Lou

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ushere wrote on 10/12/2014, 12:10 AM

years ago i used 'swishmax' which had the effect as a preset and simply imported a stills sequence..

iirc heroglyph by prodad also has it somewhere in it's effects, as does ae.

if it's for a one off i'm not sure you'll want to buy either, unless it's a paying project....

Rory Cooper wrote on 10/12/2014, 5:13 AM

Lou you can do this in Vegas Pro Type Titler quite easily

Also using normal text but the issue is you cannot kern from the character centre in normal so use a type face this is squarish
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Used a line grid comp = cut but everything is in Vegas so if this will do give me a shout and i will zip it to you.

TeetimeNC wrote on 10/12/2014, 6:16 AM

Rory, I like your approach. Here is one I did in Vegas. The flip occurs at the 17 second mark. Also, Vegasaur's Transquare 3d cubes animated mattes animated mattes give you an easy way to do these types of animations.

/jerry

DrLumen wrote on 10/12/2014, 1:28 PM

Rory, to get around the kerning you might try a monospaced font. Examples would be like the OCR A and Lucida Console fonts. These should eliminate your kerning issues but these typically aren't "pretty" fonts.

Lou van Wijhe wrote on 10/12/2014, 1:51 PM

Thank you very much for your tips, gentlemen! I'll check them out and report back!

Lou

Rory Cooper wrote on 10/13/2014, 5:41 AM

@DrLumen absolutely the type faces where the characters are the same width tend to look unusual. I noticed that in some countries they used these type faces for directional signs and strangely enough were easier to read from a distance even though the negative space between was regimental.
The nice thing about PTT is its ability to centre the animation from centre of each character which would help with the spacing issue and the rolling effect.
worth a go but a bit more hassle to see what we get.