CG crawl in TED

[nelsonm]

Hello,

It appears that you can't use a cg motion page in TED. Is this correct?

I say you can't because CG saves all the pages as PNG image files.

If this is true, then that cuts the usefulness of CG down a little.

In fact, if you have a long crawl - the font size gets pushed down in order to fit the entire line on the PNG image. If you use this file in TED then you have to blowup the image and use 3D motion to move it around. The only problem is that the text does not look as good as it should.

Is photoshop the only solution?

[Scott Bates]

Save it out of CG as a RTV instead of PNG or any other still file type.

[nelsonm]

I see nothing in VT3 CG that would let me save out a crawl page as a rtv file.

Premiere lets you put a crawl page from it's titler on the premiere timeline and it works!

Also. i notice that VT3 CG acts a little flakey. At least every other time i have it up and work with it a short while - the file menu button does not respond and i will have to x out and restart it.

[Jim_C]

file->save image file->choose .rtv from drop down next to file type.
and it works

[nelsonm]

Ok,

Thanks.

Is this just a temporary or the final solution?

[nelsonm]

Well,

There seems to be a problem with the CG save requester when trying to save a CG RTV file into the xxx.cg.pages directory - It will not save.

You can save a CG RTV file to any other directory but that one.

I have confirmed this.

[ScorpioProd]

Nothing "temporary" about it. This is how the CG has always worked for saving scrolls and crawls.

As for it not working to the directory you mention, that is probably intentional. Since saving a project rewrites that directory, it is probably protecting you from losing a scroll you render if you try to save it there manually and then save the project later.

Or maybe I'm being optimistic on how smart it is...

[Scott Bates]

Another possible factor being that a scroll or crawl is a video clip not a still which we want on our video drives anyway for optimal system efficiency.