After Effects Help Needed: Lens Warp Issue for SW Title Crawl

Author: darkhelmet
Time: 6-Oct-2007 6:46 PM
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I'm trucking pretty steadily with my title crawl in After Effects 7.0, but I was hoping someone might have some tips to give for emulating the crawl as authentically as possible.

Upon setting my position key frames for the title crawl scroll with a camera layer, I'm still experiencing issues with getting my crawl to track exactly with the lines of the original Episode III version as shown in the image that follows.

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/4189/titlecrawlnottrackinghr1.png

By imageshack at 2007-10-06

Affecting this issue looks to be a lens warp or bulge on the original as shown in this screen grab and rough perspective correction I did of the original.
There definitely seems to be a curve to the text's path, especially noticeable at the bottom.

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/1232/titlecrawllenswarpvc2.png

By imageshack at 2007-10-06

Any tips which might speed me along to a proper, authentic-looking crawl without as much trial-and-error as I've had to do so far? Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

Author: darkhelmet
Time: 17-Oct-2007 2:24 AM
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So, I'm that much closer to an authentic-looking crawl. The text is tracking very closely to the real Episode III crawl, and I'm on the trail of a lens warp on text. Things are good.