How do you get sharp text in MEP15 Pro when zooming past the text?

smithb3 wrote on 11/17/2011, 7:29 AM

I'm trying to create the feel that the text is "flying off" the screen. To do this, I simply zoomed in past the text. Unfortunately when doing this, the quality of the text degrade and pixelate. How do I create that affect without the pixelating of the text?

Thanks for your help!

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terrypin wrote on 11/17/2011, 11:04 AM

Hi,

You can do it in several ways. Staying with the basic approach you're using, there are several points, but the key one is the first:

1. Set your text font to a large value. (I used Arial Black size 100 in the demo below.)

2. Carefully adjust the position set by your second key frame so that it centres a relatively empty part of the text, i.e. a space between letters.

3. Use trial/error to determine the zoom level for your 1st and 2nd key frame. I used MEP17 which has a zoom slider, not included in MEP15, and my values were 65 and 700 respectively. Try a roughly similar ratio.

Here's a YouTube link to my example:

Another method would be to simply make your text externally in your image editor, again using a high resolution, and then apply similar KFA to that above.

Please let me know if that helps. We're just users like you, and feedback is appreciated.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

terrypin wrote on 11/27/2011, 5:50 AM

Oh well, another entry for my 'Don't answer any more questions from this user' list!

How hard is it to click the mouse to say 'Thanks'?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK