Setting start and end time in timeline for an object

[tesseract]

Basically, in race render i have a text field where I want to have it appear after 2 seconds and the disappear (not be visible) after 8 second mark in a 10 second video. Using the timeline I was able to have it appear at 2 seconds but it always goes to the end or full duration of the video.

How do I set the time for it not to show any more or set the length to show after appears for my 8 second target?

[HoboBob]

This is probably easiest in the Display Object Properties:

1. Find the frame/time when you want the text to disappear
2. In the Display Object Properties for the text, click Add (which will add a new section in the timeline)
3. Change the Transparency to 100 (i.e. Transparent)

Before that time, the text will be solid, but after that frame, the text will disappear.

It sounds like you may already have it, but if you're looking for the text to suddenly display, you can set the initial transparency to 100, then click Add and set the transparency to 0 to show it at that point. You can click the dropdown at the top to move between the segments that you've added for a given display object.

I'd recommend starting from the beginning when adding segments since working backwards can sometimes confuse later segments' values.

[tesseract]

That worked perfectly.

thanks.