However, the application of that line of thinking for the usage of Boris Graffiti is different.
The reason being – is that someone at sometime probably had similar questions and if you just “searched” hard enough in the forum or elsewhere on the web, you would find you answer. I’m always hesitant to post in forums such as this about “basic” program usage and functionality. You captured the “New-user” experience well. Once I figured out how to engage first gear, I’ve spent the last four hours slamming into the wall at the end of the runway. They simply put you in the cockpit of an F-18, give you the keys and wish you happy voyages. At the moment, though, there’s no flight school. Screen captures are cheap, easy to produce and very helpful to users.Īll that said, I’m confident that Graffiti will eventually make sense. In this tutorial, the first 15 instructions don’t have any pictures, so finding the buttons and triangles involves moving the cursor from icon to icon on the screen, waiting for the tip text to display. I’ve spent the last three hours trying to create crawl text using the tutorial “creating animated text”. For the tutorials in the on-line help, please, please use more pictures. I know how to create motion graphics in Premiere, but have spent four hours getting nowhere in Graffiti.ģ.
It would be really helpful if there was a basic explanation with pictures and arrows explaining what they do. No doubt there’s a good reason, but I suspect that it’s going to take quite a bit of experimentation to figure it out. Why is there a mask in the top level of the timeline, then a mask underneath the face level of the timeline. Explain some basic concepts of the Graffiti motion graphic interface to new users. The equivalent of a glossary would be very helpful.Ģ. I’ve been randomly entering values into random fields just to try to reverse-engineer what fields do. Which one means move to the left? No idea. In the type on tab (which happens to be where I’m looking now), my choices appear to be tumble, spin and rotate. For example, I want to make text move to the left (i.e., a crawl).
Create a translation table between how beginners think and what the on-screen text says. If any of the Boris documentation people read this site, I can make some suggestions from a new user’s perspective.ġ. I purchased it yesterday and spent the last four hours trying to do something very simple (crawl text along the bottom of the screen) and it’s very frustrating. It appears to be a very powerful product, but it has a very steep learning curve. As a fellow new user of Graffiti, I completely agree.
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