The more I think about @musicalbox’s suggestion (in another thread) about adding a dedicated keyframable opacity slider to the text:simple and text:rich filters, the more I can see huge artistic potential for creating interesting video title templates using the new “filter-sets” feature.
I tend to make a lot of titles for my videos in which lines of text fade in individually, as in this demo:
The problem is that they all use multiple tracks.
If the text filters had keyframeable opacity sliders, I could get each video title one one track, with multiple filters (as opposed to multiple TRACKS. Then I could save the filters as a filter set, and use the filter set as a template for further projects, simple by creating a transparent clip and applying the relevant filter set.
Also, other creative folk here could create new designs and share their filter-sets. I can see huge artistic potential.
We actually should make the color parameters keyframable (color includes the alpha component for opacity). There were recent improvements to color animation/interpolation in the engine to make this possible. This would work for all colors in Text: Simple individually, but only the Background color in Text: Rich since the rich text is not keyframable.
Sounds good. But what would happen if you say keyframed from transparent to yellow? Would you see, say a blue colour in between? (I’m just guessing at the actual colours but I hope you can understand what I’m trying to ask…)
If I understand your question correctly @jonray, I don’t think it will be an issue.
If on the first keyframe color=yellow, alpha=0 and on the next keyframe color=yellow alpha=255, the color will stay yellow, only the transparency will change.
You interpreted my (poorly articulated) question exactly! Thanks. I was just wondering if going from one colour to another it may involve other colours, similarly to if you move around on the colour grading filter:
