Boris Graffiti - What Am I Missing?

David Jimerson

David Jimerson

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OK; I've hardly cracked open the Boris Graffiti Keyframer which came with V5 any further than to see that the workflow and interface are similar to After Effects/Commotion/Etc.. Hadn't really encountered the need to do anything super-fancy with text, that I couldn't just do inside Vegas, until now . . .

All I want to do is take a line of straight text and bend it around a curve without distorting the letters. I can't find a way to do it. Maybe you can't, and it just needs to be confirmed, and that's fine too; I'll go letter-by-letter if I have to.

Yes, I know you can bend text a little bit in the Vegas text generator, but not enough, and you can't create the style of text I want with it.

So, any of you who know Graffiti in and out (if indeed any such person exists) -- am I missing something obvious or is it just not there?
 
http://www.lafcpug.org/reviews/review_graffiti_2.html

I didn't get Boris Graffiti with my downloaded copy of Vegas 5 (it was an upgrade, maybe that's why, or else I just didn't see it...doh). But according to the above article, text on a path is doable in Graffiti. I've been using Boris FX for sometime, and it's a steep learning curve for me. The keyframer looks pretty much identical though.

Your post got me thinking. I envision text flowing in from the left hand side of the screen, last letter first, then following whatever path I have made. It could be a spiral or just a plain old hump in the path. It sounds like it would be easy.......lol
 
I thought that I didn't have it.....Boris Graffiti that is....

You know.....I went to the SONY website and downloaded Boris Graffiti LTD. Then I tried to install it and got stopped when it asked for a serial number. Not being the sharpest knife in the drawer, I was stumped. Then, there before me on the shelf I spied the box! Low and behold....a Boris card with a serial number!

(I thought I downloaded it.... the receipt for the upgrade was dated 4/2004) I'm going to get the text on a path to work or fry this CPU trying!
 
Never mind.... from the User Guide:

Graffiti LTD is a limited version of the Boris Graffiti product. The Path tab is only
available in the full version of Graffiti.

Text on a path is not available in the LTD version.... :(
 
Yeah; I figured that out. :) Seems like a pretty basic thing which should normally be included in a LTD -- a simple text curve, anyway.
 
Daniel_Runyon said:
Is it something you could do in Photoshop maybe?
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Yes, if it's just static text it's easily done in Photoshop, Illustrator or Corel Draw. It can then be imported into Vegas.

I thought that he wanted to have an animated line of text in Vegas that followed a path, (at least, that is what I wanted to do). That was a little more than the LTD program allowed.
 
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