Page 1 of 1

Bug in text animator

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2026 17:33
by mowgli
While working on a composition, I found a bug in the Text Animator source, specifically using the preset Countdown from 10.
If I place the preset on a clip it works as expected but simply switching decks and coming back to it, the countdown numbers are no longer centered on the screen.
Re-applying the preset, fixes the issue, until I switch decks, do nothing else, come back to it and it's messed up again.

By the way, is there no way of posting video here other than hosting it elsewhere?

phpBB [video]

Re: Bug in text animator

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2026 20:31
by mowgli
Completely unrelated, but this post has over 1000 views, yet the YouTube count is ...2
The mind boggles!

Re: Bug in text animator

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2026 11:51
by tijnisfijn
thx i'll make a issue....

about the views they are probably bots/AI's that scan :cry:

Re: Bug in text animator

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 18:13
by mowgli
I'm quite concerned regarding this bug.
Besides what I've posted here, I found another issue which at first I didn't link to this which I was posting about here:
viewtopic.php?t=33104

As it turns out, on reopening a composition, saved settings on sources and effects are changing on their own and don't display what was saved.
As it stands, I'm concerned about opening my files as this has the potential to really wreck hours of work.

Luckily, I discovered this whole thing while working on just one composition, which happens to have presets that I'm saving for a Wire effect I'm making.

Each clip in the composition has a source and my effect with one of its presets applied. Every time I open the composition every clip has changed from when the composition was saved.

Thankfully, I can restore them by reapplying the presets...until I close the composition and open it again.

The changes happening on reopening are consistent, each clip's changes are always the same but every clip changes in a different way ie. the parameters that are changed vary from clip to clip.

The bug I originally posted here is related to Spacing Y in Text Animator. You can see below that something very strange is going on. While both of them display 0%, the buggy one's slide is not on the 0% position.

settings bug.jpg

Re: Bug in text animator

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 18:18
by mowgli
Looking further into this, I've found out that the Spacing Y slider changes its range from the original:
-20 to 200
to
-100 to 200
on reopening the file.

Still, 0% spacing doesn't appear to correspond between them, ie. 0% means different things in both of them.