What version of Premiere are you using? If 7.0 or Pro, you can animate the position property by setting a keyframe at each "word". I was bored this morning, so check out: http://www.jeffschell.com/bouncing-ball.wmv
I achieved this by: 1. moving the cursor to each time the ball shoud "hit" the word. 2. dragging the ball clip to the place you'd like the word to go. Now, in order to make it bounce, this requires some deft mouse handling. You can "arch" the path between each keyframe, to make it bounce. This requires zooming in and grabbing each handle between keyframes. It's results in the cleanest effect controls panel, and fewer keyframes, but it can be hard to keep track of all the handles because they are all shown at one time. For a long song, this would be maddening. In the above scenario, the goal is to have one keyframe per word. ...OR... You could also set keyframes at the *top* of the arch, so each word would have TWO keyframes associated with it, instead of just one. 1.) The keyframe "arch" right before the word, and 2.) the keyframe "bounce" on the word. In addition, you could add an ease-in, ease-out temporal interpoloation to make the ball slow down at the top of the arch, as objects do in the real world. I created this in PP2, so I've uploaded the project file and assets to: http://www.jeffschell.com/bouncing_ball.zip. Hope this helps. -jeff ----- Original Message ----- I'm trying to put a short music video together with the lyrics of the song crwawing across the sreen from right to left. Does anyone know of an easy way to create a "bouncing ball" hightlighting the words to the song? Am I doomed to creating a frame by frame animation? Any ideas? Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
