[Gary Lightfoot]

Hi,

I'd like to be able to do some falling text similar to the opening title of 'The Matrix' movie. I just need to be able to drop down the title letters/fonts as the opening mpg is playing. I'm not after the entire green falling text background, just the main title effect that spells out 'The Matrix'. Does that make sense?

I have Premiere, but I've a feeling I might need to do this on a frame by frame basis as the letters need to follow some things on the mpg video, so I might need to convetr the mpg to avi for frame by frame 'animation'. It's only a 20 to 30 second clip.

Any suggestions?

Gary.

[MartinImber]

You will hate this but it will work - just take all day!

Create the title as a BMP and manually edit it in paint for each frame. Then import back in as 1/25" of a second each.

Scary but free!

I could do the same in some free ULEAD software but never bothered.

If you have to change an AVI export each frame as a BMP, interlacing will get kept!

[Mr.D]

Decent compositing package like after effects or better is what you want.
There might be some tools in premiere that will handle this.

[Gary Lightfoot]

Hi Martin,

I've done something like that already using jpgs and a paint program. That seems to work but how do I export them back to an mpg? That will be my best option right now I think.

Hi Keith,

I can try after effects but I remember looking at it and thing "what do I do"!

I guess I'm after something without a steep learning curve after it took me ages to get Encore under my belt. I'll go that route if I have to, but something like Martins idea seems favourite at the moment.

Thanks.

Gary.