Difficulty working with text

SpaceBoy64 · Post by **SpaceBoy64** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:02 pm

I just animated a diagram with a lot of text labels on it. I wanted all the text to be the same size, and since there doesn't seem to be a way to control the size as usual via point size, I created all the text on one layer and resized it.

This caused AS to slow to a crawl and not respond for minutes at a time every time I made a change. Making all the position changes I needed to make took an unnecessarily long time and I thought at times that AS would crash completely.

Is there a way around this? or should I just avoid working with text in AS?

Thanks.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:20 pm

For long text I recommend you not create them in AS. Try creating some pngs with your text on another software (as illustrator, photoshop, corel draw, etc) and then import it to AS.

SpaceBoy64 · Post by **SpaceBoy64** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:10 am

Thanks. I will probably just use After Effects to do the whole thing. Anime Studio just doesn't seem to be very useful for that sort of thing. I used it mainly for the audio scrubbing ability, and a couple of animated shapes.

Why does text cause such a problem? Is it the number of points in a layer?
When I am working with another layer in that project, there is no problem, but editing that layer causes it to flip out. Is there a limit to the practical number of points per layer?

It would be nice if text were easier to use in AS, like maybe with a plug-in.

Thanks.

Oh, by the way, it's still rendering after three hours! It's a very simple animated diagram. I was watching a webinar while it rendered, but it still should not be taking that long.