I will give it a try Thanks for the help.
--- In [email protected], "Jeff Schell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/
