Orbiting Letters Got the Jumps

[Tom Wood]

I have a slogan that is a series of words arranged in a circle that rotates so that you can read one side of the circle as it passes to the front. I set the rotation to 360 degrees over the length of the animation. In LW the motion appears fine in looping mode - just what I want, a continuous rotating motion.

But when rendered out to RTV, something happens at the point where the motion is supposed to repeat smoothly, there's a big jump in the position of the letters. I was hoping I could make a seamless animation of any length by making several copies of the single animation and placing them side by side in TED as needed. Any thoughts?

Thanx,

TW

[toby]

Could it be a frame rate thing?

Does it jump if you render to another format? Did you rendered to frames before making the rtv?

[Tom Wood]

Well this is embarrassing...

The patch changed preferences back to 1 second offest. Which has a big impact on a 6 second animation.

I'm gonna start placing my new posts in a holding bin before actually posting, seems like the act of formulating the question tickles the brain into the answer.

TW