Soft-Blurred Shadows

Posted: Monday, 05/10/2004 -- by Russell Greenwood. Subject: Soft-Blurred Shadows

Does anyone know how this is achieved in Scala? Not just the hard edged semi-transparent shadows that some tutorials suggest? I mean it's in all the demo videos and stuff, just want to know how.

Posted: Monday, 05/10/2004 -- by Paul Miller. Subject: soft shadows...

It's usually done in Photoshop - a standard layer effect. So you would basically be using a clip, not the text tool in ICD.

Posted: Monday, 05/10/2004 -- by Russell Greenwood. Subject: more...

Then how do they animate it letter at a time in the demos?

Posted: Wednesday, 06/09/2004 -- by Vladimir Zecevic. Subject: On at the time

Type the text but press CTRL+ENTER after each letter.
That would actually make every letter as a separate text but letters will stay in one line.

Select all letters, choose wipe and uncheck WAIT option. Set for PAUSE or DURATION amount that will make text appearing as you like, and that's it.

Regards,
Vladimir Zecevic
Ars Media
http://www.atsmedia.tv

Posted: Friday, 06/11/2004 -- by Fred Ahlborn. Subject: SOFT-edge shadows

There is a GREAT cg program called "Alpha CG"....around $100 or so (comes free with Serious Magic Visual Communicator)...that makes alpha channel text and saves as png (ready to go for scala).

I use it all the time...real easy. Quick, and all text, whether individual letters or groups of words, is fully scalable in all directions. Great transparency, variable 0-255.....and multitudes of edges, shadows, and more edges to choose from. Even lets you use jpg's as shadow, edge, or face fill. It's GREAT! I keep it running along with Designer 3...and it only takes 30 sec to create a great network-quality title or lower 3rd, or...whatever! I just save the png to desktop...then bring it in as an overlaid clip on top of all the Designer stuff. Voilla. It's easy. MUCH MUCH MUCH easier than Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. It's as easy as typing on Scala!

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