So I am doing a project which involves changing text. Basically, I want a text box with some content on it for one slide, then I want to make that text disappear on the next slide and then on the same slide a new text box should appear in the place of the original one (and the cycle continues until the end of the animation). How do I get this to happen?
Whenever I try there is a vector layer that appears and that text that I put in appears from every slide from the beginning even if I added it on like slide 15. How do I get text to appear on one slide (or sometimes, a couple of slides) and then make it disappear again - with a new text in its spot and repeat?
I’m on macOS Ventura with an M1 chip if that does anything.
You can’t animate a vector layer so you can’t actually have vector content on like ‘slide 15’.
Any vector layer content will be a static image that is present for all the animation.
What you can do is one of two methods.
1: Convert the vector layer to a paint layer, which can then be treated as raster content suitable for animation.
2. Animate the visibility of the vector layer by adding a transparency mask to it and animating the content of that mask to have it black for not visible and white for visible.
You can also do fancy wipe/fade effects with an animated transparency mask if you put some effort into it.
I’d go with animated transparency masks because they’re easy and simple:
Ok, but how do you add the transparency mask to the layer? And if I do choose to do the paint layer option, do I need to add a blank frame before the slide where the caption is actually going to be shown?
I don’t do animations, but I think you should create a group layer and group them together in that group. Maybe I’m wrong, but one try shouldn’t break anything. But to be on the safe side, you should save your animation beforehand so you can go back to that state if something breaks.
Michelist
Add: I should really consider learning to animate, I hate guessing for hints like this.
It’s worth spending time and effort to explore the UI so that you’ll see and learn what is available.
If you’re animating with a paint layer, all frames will be empty until you put something in a frame.
If a layer has a static image, you make it animated by doing right-click → Create Duplicate Frame on the Timeline at frame-0. That will put the image as frame-0 on the Timeline.
Then you can drag it to frame-n. It will then show from frame-n onwards.
To stop it showing, Create Blank Frame at frame-n+x.
