I have downloaded Synfig Studio v0.64.3 a couple of days ago, been playing with it since, and am already seeing how enormously powerful and useful this animation software can be. I have never heard of, or used, Synfig before. (In other words, I’m a total newbie to Synfig.)
I’m having a vexing problem in Synfig that I can’t resolve, and I’m not sure if it’s a bug in Synfig or not: text in Synfig Studio jitters when rotated, although it shouldn’t.
I’ve Googled “Synfig jitter”, and found out that rotation animation jitter was a problem that Synfig Studio used to have, back in 2008, and it’s supposed to be long fixed by now. I’ve searched “jitter” in the Synfig bug tracker, and nothing showed up. Nothing much helpful in the Synfig forum either, on the issue I’m having, although it does have a few threads on “jitter”.
I’ve tried rotating an imported image of the text, instead of the Synfig text, and it showed no jitter: So I’m sure the jitter is particular to the Synfig text.
Do I have wrong settings, or is this “text rotation jitter” a bug in Synfig? If this is definitely a bug, I will report it in the Synfig bug tracker.
The Synfig file with the “text rotation jitter” problem is attached in this post.
If you render an animated video file with the attached Synfig file, with the “imported text image” layer turned on and the “Synfig text” layer turned off, there’s no text jitter.
If you render an animated video file with the attached Synfig file, with the “imported text image” layer turned off and the “Synfig text” layer turned on, there is text jitter.
TextRotationTest.sifz (948 Bytes)