Sun Feb 09, 2020 2:25 pm
I'm using DR Studio 16.1.2.026 and I can't believe this is still a problem, but it is.
I just want to dynamically change the position of some 2D text.
It should be so easy - drop text onto new track, Inspect, look at the video tab, make a node where I want the text to start moving, make a node where I want it to stop moving, smooth them both, and have a smooth transition.
But no - that starts and stops with a bump (and the viewing of the nodes in the node viewer is very temperamental too). You can see in the dots on the transform graph on the timeline viewer that nothimg happens when you "smooth" a node. if you're a couple of frames off the start or end points and you switch between linear and smooth you can see that the nothing changes - where you'd expect to see a change in position.
Instead I have to take that text effect, make a compound clip from it, make a Fusion clip from that, go into Fusion, make the start and end nodes, view splines, ease in/out on the nodes. Terrible User eXperiance.
Worse, I can't see the video on the layer(s) below the text while I'm making the change. Which is the whole point of a multi-layer video timeline.
Now, I love DR Studio, I've paid for it, and mostly editing is a dream with it. But silly bugs like this are really infuriating - and hard to evangelise to one's colleagues that DR is a good option to switch to.
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Mark Himsley
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