How can I affected the visiblity of text.

Support Animation and Rigging
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After some advice from members of this forum I was able to affect the visibility of object.
Turn the little eye icon off & mark it as keyframe, go to the next frame of choice, turn it back on and mark it again as a keyframe.

I got this. The spheres turn on after the animation has started. Good.

However I was trying to do that with text. And while it works while animating in blender. vanishes off/on.
Once I went to render its visibility was not affected. It always rendered.

Was wondering why or if anyone could offer some advice.
I wonted the text to only be visible in the last 50 frames.
thanks
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I think you are animating an edit mode visibility not a render visibility. Try animating its change to another layer or it’s material opacity value.

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ok. will give it a shot.
But I was in object mode. oh well.
thanks
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This animates the visibility of the object in the view port. To animate the rendering of an object, do the same thing with the camera icon in the outliner…

Randy

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btw. went to check out your vse blog. Looks neat will look forward to using it.

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Thank you Randy will go and try it out.
But I guess I was also puzzled as to why it affect the visibility or a sphere, but not the text (either in original text format or once I turned it to a mesh)
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