FCPX Text Animation Bug

Hi Everyone!
I'm working through a 30+ minute video sequence showing photos and video clips of an event I attended recently. This is my first foray into FCP.
I've come across a rather weird text animation bug, where text is animated onto the screen incorrectly.
So what I've shown above is one typical text box I've added for narration, using the "Typewriter" effect. Of course, the text should render (appear) on screen one character at a time, but I have been getting a random number of characters at the end of the block that do not animate. The only way I have been able to get these blocks to animate correctly is to add enough spaces to the end of the text to force FCPX to rerender the block correctly.
At some point in the future, this bug resurfaces, and I have to delete the spaces, and re-add them, to get the block to render and animate correctly once again.
If I go and "share" the resulting sequence, the bug is rendered into the sequence.
Deleting the text block, and adding a new block, doesn't seem to help.
I have reported this as a bug to Apple.
It's not just the Typewriter text effect doing this. As far as I can see, it is every text effect bar the lower thirds (so far as I can see).
Any ideas on how to get around this? Does anyone else experience this bug?

I'm starting to pull my hair out on this one. My video is essentially ready for final rendering, but I've hit a snag re the rendering itself.
Check out this image I've just snapped:
http://www.becsta.com/pics/skitch/FCPvCompressor-20110918-225758.jpg
On the left is the Compressor 4 preview pane. Note that the text animations are screwed up, just like the screenshot at the start of this discussion.
On the right is the FCPX preview pane, showing that the rendering is complete and correct. All I did was select "Send to Compressor", and skipped the Compressor timeline up to review the same frame.
These text blocks are using the "Typewriter" effect.
So, what do I do to fix this once and for all?
Build it from scratch in Motion?
Any ideas?
/cue Princess Leia voice/ Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!

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C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Blade.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Blue_Aura.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
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C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Catapult.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Cloning.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\DePlume.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Elliptical.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Fade_In.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Feather.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Fillin_Blanks.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Flashlight.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Flight.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Flowright.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Fly_Away.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Fog_Lifted.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Futbol.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Giftwrap.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Green_Globe.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Gridright.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Hori_Scan.swf: swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\illusion.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Leading_Star.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Light_Passage.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Matador.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Mini_Starburst.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Modflare.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Multi_Wake.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Ornaments.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
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C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Reflect.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
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C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Sliced.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Sliding.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Slidingblinds.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Spindle.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
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C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Starburst.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Stuff_It.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
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C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Transition.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
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C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Windmill.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Wizard.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\TextAnimations\Zoomout.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\Interactions\Digital Timer.wdgt: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\Interactions\hangman.wdgt: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\Interactions\hourglass.wdgt: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\Interactions\memoryGame.wdgt: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\Widgets\emailIcon.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 8 x64\Gallery\Widgets\pocastIcon.swf: Swf.Exploit.CVE_2014_0564-2 FOUND
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Why can't I get my jpgs and text animation to display properly

Using the timeline, I specified the times that the 4 jpgs are to appear. I also added text animation. When I preview the individual slide, all works well. When I preview several slides in the browser, or publish as a swf, some of my jpgs fail to appear at all, or look washed out, and many of my text animations fail to appear fully. Can anyone help me with this?
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Hi Bert
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Mouseover/Mouseout Animation bug when mouse moved quickly/fast over it.

Hi everyone, this is the first time I create a thread on adobe forum ^^
In edge animate I made a pretty simple animation :
- I made a square
- I made a movieclip with an animation of about 200ms (opacity) that show some text appart from the square.
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Mouseover :
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I made this 6 times, so I have 6 differents square & 6 differents text animation.
But when I quickly move the mouse from one to another, some animation just bug but in a strange way :
the text is always shown and when I move the mouse to the associate cube that is normally playing the animation the text simply dissapear, and show back when I leave the cube with my mouse.
I tried to use mouseenter mouseleave but I'm not really sure what to use and how to do that.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi, Achyp-
Welcome to the forums! As you mentioned, you should use mouseenter and mouseleave instead of mouseover and mouseout. Here's what you would do:
Delete your mouseover and mouseout events
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Hope that helps point you in the right direction!
Thanks,
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Add Rollover Slidelet hot spot over button, Slidelet area underneath
Add within the slidelet a standard text box with some text that lasts for 20 seconds
Basically when the user hovers over the button, explanation of 'what the button is for' appears in the slidelet and vanishes after 20 seconds OR the mouse cursor is moved off the button.
Affect
Moving the mouse on and off the button will affect the text animation
If others are finding the text animation is being interfered with by the motion of the mouse over the button, I can just put it down to a Bug in CP4 with no fix and move on! If others don’t find the issue, it’s me and my settings somewhere!
All help appreciated

Text animation not working

'm having some issues with some text animation. I'm trying to animate certain text boxes of a slide and not others...it all seems to work when I preview it, but when it comes to actually playing the slide, the animation does not appear. I've tried using the Magic Slide (not sure if that's quite the name) but that doesn't give me the animation options I'm looking for. Any ideas?

Inspector???
Yes
Inspector > Animate > Add an Effect > Magic Move (inspector is the side panel on right)

Premiere elements 7 error while playing text animation

I installed premiere elements 7 on my 64 bit windows 7 os. Everything has worked fine so far except when I play a clip that involves text animation. It starts to play then freezes. A box pops up and says "Adobe Premiere Elements.exe has stopped working" Windows tries to detect the problems and it says, "A problem has caused the program to stop working correctly windows will close the program and notify you if a solution."
The is a brand new computer and meets all of the requirements. I have it installed on my laptop using Vista with no problem.
thanks

Windows 7 64-bit seems to be causing a lot of problems for Premiere Elements users. This is not a problem with the program or the operating system. It's most likely related to the OS's 64-bit drivers, which are not yet fully compatible with 32-bit programs.
Have you gone to Windows Updates and ensured you have even the non-critical updates (particularly the hardware drivers)?
If it is a Dell, have you gone to the Dell site, looked up your model and ensured you have all of the Dell updates?
Do you have the latest version of Quicktime?
These are not guaranteed to fix your problem. You are, after all, using a brand-new 64-bit operating system that has not yet fully evolved. But they'll certainly increase the odds in your favor.

Text Animation Presets do not load.

Text animation presets do not load in After Effects CC (or Adobe Bridge when browsing presets). They don't show up in Effects & Presets panel. I believe they used to show up but no longer. They are in the presets folder so I'm not sure why they won't load in either program.
Any help appreciated.
James

They show up for me and everybody I know except you. Without knowing something about your system, about whether this is new behavior, and without knowing what if anything has changed on your system I have no idea how to help you.

Does Bridge CC have more text animation presets then Bridge CS6?

so I upgrade from CS6 to CC and did not install Bridge CC. Then while in After Effects CC I try to view the text animation presets, but window informs me I do not have Bridge CC installed. I then download and install Bridge CC and view the animation presets, but seem all the same as Bridge CS6 has.
My question is - Does Bridge CC have more text animation presets then Bridge CS6.
Is there another procedure to acquire more? Did I click past something on my first launch of Bridge CC?

My question is - Does Bridge CC have more text animation presets then Bridge CS6.
Best try this in the After Effect forum, to my knowledge not many AE users are here at a regular base. Besides that, every suite version has its dedicated applications to work together in that suite, CC is no exception to that so for best practice use Bridge CC.

Help with drop-in text animation

Hi Folks,
I'm trying to create a specific text animation, but I'm having a little difficulty. I'd like to have the text drop in in a random order into its final spot. I can get close using the text drop-in animation, but I'd really like the 'source' of the text dropping in to be from a single point. Picture a watering can pouring the letters out and they randomly fall into their correct spot in a phrase. The default look of the drop-in animation is that each character drops from its corresponding spot in the phrase. I've played with changing the tracking, using the 'before' setting and managed to squeeze the space that the text is dropping from, but that causes the letter to appear to move after they've already landed. You can see a rough draft here: http://www.c2-it.com/clients/a/textdrop.mov
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get closer to what I'm looking for?
Thanks,
CJ

Todd, thanks for the reference to the tutorials. They helped me understand a little more how the animators work.
Mylenium, I'm still a little confused on your approach. I've got the base text layer and added an animator for opacity. I set it for random and that works fine, the letters randomly appear and complete the phrase. For the 'pouring in' part, I added a second text layer and animated the position property, but the text still originates from its original place in the phrase. I can't get it to originate from a single point. Also, I'm not even sure I understood about using multiple selectors for the 1st layer. Just using the animator for opacity with a random setting seems to provide the correct 'ending' of the animation.
Thanks Again,
CJ

Captivate 5 - Text Animation Does not Play on Slide 1 Only

I am using Captivate 5, updated to 5.0.1, with Windows XP, SP 3. Publishing as Export to HTML.
The problem I am ecperienced just started in the last few days, sometime after 3/18/2011. I think this issue is different from similar problems reported in January, which seemed to impact all text animations.
The problem is that text animations on slide 1 work OK in slide preview mode, but do not display at all in project preview mode or when published.
Text animations work on all other slides. If I put a .blank slide in the project, so the failing slide 1 becomes slide 2, then the text animation plays OK, but I do not like such a workaround.
In deliverables generated on 3/18, the text animations work on slide 1. If I regerate the same projects, the slide 1 animations no longer work.
Has something been changed with Captivate 5 or Flash that is causing this problem? Any suggestions?

I don't think you are missing anything. I am using the "Light_PAssage" animantion, but switching to the one you used has no impact.
For me, if there is a text animation on slide one, it will play in File->Preview->Play Slide. It will not play in FIle->Preview->Project, From this slide, or Next 5 slides.
The issue occurs in all my Captivate 5 projects, including projects that previously generated properly working outputs as recently as 2/23/2011.
Is it possible it's related to Flash player? I am using Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX 10.2.152.26.
I will send an example cptx to your email address. The example includes a blank slide one, and the text on slide 2 plays as expected in the previews and in the generated output. If I remove the blank slide 1, the text animation on the new slide 1 no longer plays.
Thanks.

FCPX Text Animation Bug

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