Animated box border drawing for outlining text or graphics

Non, cela ne change rien.
Que je sauve dans Glaxnimate ou/et dans SC … Rien
Et pourtant les fichiers rawr sont bien dans le dossier projet.
Je peux tracer mon rectangle sur le fond à damier de Glaxnimate, il est bien visible dans SC, mais impossible de voir le clip de V1 (Rich text avec la couleur du texte bien définie)
J’ai essayé avec texte simple, c’est pareil.
Il n’y aurait pas quelque chose à régler dans Glaxnimate par hasard ?

No, it does not change anything.
Whether I save in Glaxnimate or/and in SC … Nothing
And yet the rawr files are well in the project folder.
I can draw my rectangle on the checkerboard background of Glaxnimate, it is well visible in SC, but impossible to see the clip of V1 (Rich text with the color of the text well defined)
I tried with plain text, it’s the same.
Is there anything in Glaxnimate that needs to be fixed by any chance?

@Namna your animation is in the Source player so there is nothing underneath it. You need to put the animation on V2 and click Properties > Edit to get the preview of V1 inside Glaxnimate.

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Je suis d’accord avec vous, mais si vous regardez bien ma vidéo vous verrez qu’à partir de 00:26 j’ai déplacé l’animation sur la piste V2 et que les ouvertures de Glaxnimate à 00:37 et 00:51 n’affichent pas la piste V1

I agree with you, but if you look carefully at my video you will see that from 00:26 onwards I moved the animation to the V2 track and that the openings of Glaxnimate at 00:37 and 00:51 do not display the V1 track

Probably due to a macOS IPC limitation as mentioned in the release notes:

Preview on macOS may stop working due to out-of-resources until reboot.

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Vous avez raison, je viens de redémarrer mon Mac et d’ouvrir le projet SC, la piste V1 apparait bien dans Glaxnimate.
Reconnaissez par contre que ce n’est pas très pratique, si il faut redémarrer l’ordinateur à chaque création d’animation …

You are right, I just restarted my Mac and opened the SC project, the V1 track appears well in Glaxnimate.
But you must admit that it is not very practical, if you have to restart the computer each time you create an animation…

That is not true for me. It has been infrequent in my experience, it does not prevent you from using Glaxnimate, there is nothing I can do about it, and it is not a problem on Windows and Linux.

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Fantastic! I had a little play and managed to get the offset working properly so it starts at the top left:

And then after messing with offset key frames, I discovered you can do this kind of thing (which is possibly where you were heading with your map line drawing)!

Oh là là !
Yes I was pleasantly surprised when that happened.

EDIT: Sorry about the missing lorem ipsum, it’s now fixed (I’d left the colour black)!

The only thing I haven’t worked out (yet) is how to set more than one decimal place on the percentages. For instance, when my line is wider the offset in the first video is fine at 58% and it starts exactly in the corner, but when I made the line thinner, neither 58 or 59% were quite right, and I needed something in between (hence the tiny tail you see). Still, this opens up a lot of possibilities.

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First, let me say I’m happy some forum members were able to learn from my earlier attempt at an animated line, even if I was doing it wrong (since I’m usually the one doing the learning it made a nice change).

And yes, I believe it was wrong, since the record button is for moving objects like a ball or a shape around the screen.

So here’s my first attempt at something resembling my previous intro (all in Glaxnimate). It is currently a beta since I haven’t even got the right colour scheme yet (sorry Dan), the initial teal slide in is too slow, and I might make the black lines come down centred on the white strip in the middle (they are slightly offset right now but I was just testing).
720p:

1080p:

Here’s the rawr.
ShotcutIntroBeta.rawr (31.1 KB)

P. S. My numbers are slightly messed up, so that’s next on the list ( unless someone beats me to it)!

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The exact color (and other useful informations) can be found on the Press Media Kit page.

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I didn’t experiment with the Offset parameter. Thanks for the demonstration. This can be usefull.

Dans les trucs bizarre de Glaxnimate il y a aussi le choix de la langue.
J’ai pourtant bien réglé sur Français mais tout est toujours en Anglais (même après avoir redémarré)
Et pourtant sur les tutoriels de Kamigeek, c’est bien affiché en Français.
Et vous, vous arrivez à changer la langue ? et si oui comment ?

In the weird stuff of Glaxnimate there is also the choice of the language.
I set it to French but everything is still in English (even after restarting)
And yet on Kamigeek’s tutorials, it is displayed in French.
And you, do you manage to change the language ? and if yes how ?

Diapo26

That appears to be a bug in the macOS version of Glaxnimate. I will look into it.

@shotcut, there is a bug in Glaxnimate that does not open files with a " . " in the name. So if you start Mask: Draw and create a rawr file with " . " in the name like: 12.34 when Glaxnimate opens it will say “No importer found” and the mask will not work.

My language related bug is related to build and packaging, which is why I am looking into that now. The file name bug can be reported to the upstream project.

Windows: I’m exporting with Glaxnimate and the only one that doesn’t fail is .svg. Is anyone else experiencing this?

That’s a great script for producing travel/holiday reports btw, very impressive, and now even I know how you came up with the username!

And yes, you did. From day 24: Dunedin (where I went to Uni) to Invercargill, but I highly doubt you would remember Gore’s big fish, since that is probably the only notable landmark on a trip such as yours.

Sorry, we didn’t manage to get to Gore. We took the Southern Scenic Route instead to visit some fatastic coastal sites like Jack’s Blowhole and Curio Bay. Maybe next time we visit the beautiful islands of Aotearoa.

Oh you made the right choice, not much to see here sadly!