Text Box in Timeline? Help much appreciated

[sweetchuk]

Hi all!
I've recently acquired Movie Factory 5 Plus, and am creating a project which involves both still frame pictures (with a music track underlying the stills) and video clips.

My question is this .... I need to create a Text Box in the timeline before each batch of stills, to give an overall explanation of the following still shots, and the only function I can see is one that requires you to write text on all the pictures instead - an option from the project's aesthetic point of view which is not an option here.

I created a very quick example of this using WinDVD Creator 2 (and also Windows Movie Maker surprisingly enough), whereby the program allows for stills, video and audio tracks, as well as the creation of a text box with various effects of the text appearing in and disappearing from the box (usually green text with choice of font style and size, on a black background), which then used a transition effect to go onto the following batch of pictures.

Can anyone offer assistance on how to do this with Movie Factory 5 Plus, and if I'm missing something in the functions which will enable me to do this?
I sure hope I haven't spent money on an otherwise great product which the saleperson said would do what I've outlined, only to find it is unable to undertake this fairly important project function for me.

Many thanks for any assistance you might be able to give me with this.

chuk

[maddrummer3301]

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[sweetchuk]

Hello maddrummer3301,

Thank you very much for your reply. We will be starting up the project again tomorrow, and your suggestion sounds like it could be what we're looking for.
Many thanks once again!

Cheers,

chuk

[maddrummer3301]

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