Text animation, FadeInCompress

[herbmann]

I have used the FadeInCompressed animation before and I really like the effect. I tried to apply it on a new title and the type just disappeared, never to appear again. If I remove the effect, it comes back. I have tried to examine the file that works, but can't seem see what I am doing wrong.

In addition, when I have a title that I want to fade in, oddly when it hit 100% opacity, the type acutally dims. I have stepped it through and sure enough when it goes for 97% to 100%, blink, dims.

[Chuck Engels]

There might be some help in this topic
viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1143

The animated text is new to Premiere Elements and I wouldn't doubt that there are some issues that will be found the more people use it.
In testing we didn't hit that feature very hard.

Did you use the same font or style on both?

[Steve Grisetti]

That would be my guess too, Chuck.

Fonts come in many flavors (True Type, Type 1, Type 2, Open Type) and they behave in different ways. True Type are usually a pretty safe bet on a PC.

[herbmann]

No, I did not use the same font, but they were both selected from the drop down withing PE4. I'll give that a look to see if it may be the problem.

[herbmann]

PE4 was not the problem. It was me. I had a long clip and wanted the title to stay during the whole duration, so I stretched the timeline way out. I didn't run the whole clip so didn't see that it did indeed FadeIn, but It took a loooooong time.

So, I thought no problem, I'll just make a snapshot of the title and tack it onto the end. Whoops. That doesn't work on a title.

So I copied the title and removed the Fades from the copy. Whoops. When you remove the fade from the copy, it removes it from the original title as well. That seemed odd to me, but I tried several times with the same results.

The only way I could get it to work was to create a new title and copy the text from the original into the new one. Happily it copied it into the exact position so there was no flicker during transition.

Seems harder than it should be.

[Chuck Engels]

You can duplicate the title with a right click and select Duplicate, then rename the new title, that will work.