Title Help

[cru]

Why for the love of god can i not do title to title transitions?!

*Example*

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@| -Video1
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T| -Title1 (want transition here) Title2
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so Title1 is overlayed onto Video1, then i want a transition into Title2


Video1----\
=======| ------>Title2
Title1-----/


please help thanks.


*well after playing with it some i figured out i can make it fade or make it exit off the screen, but is this it? this is the only options?

[Ron P.]

If you are talking about the 78 preset/template title animations, then yes that's all there are. Which numerous ones of those can be further customized by the pause/duration, and where it enters/exits.

[cru]

yes i understand there are alot of templates, but why cant i do a simple title to title transistion, do i need to make a video text possibly, or is that not even possible....

[Ron P.]

It depends on the type of transition that you want to do. You can achieve this, however not in the traditional way.

If you want to use crossfades, then the animation for the titles do have this. Once you have selected to animate your text, click on the TT to the right. This will open up a dialog where you can select Cross-Fade and then in a pull-down menu for Duration choose User Defined.

Now using the blue bar at the bottom of the preview pane, now called Pause Duration for effects, drag the handles (triangles) to the sides. This will alter the time that it takes for the object/text to appear, remain static, then disappear. Having the Pause/Duration handles closer to the ends, makes the effect faster, and the text/object remain on the screen longer. With the handles toward the center, the effect of appearing is slower, and the static time shorter.

You can also copy your text once you have it on the screen where you want it, by dragging it to the library. Then dragging back to the timeline. This is one way to use say a Fly-In then a Fade-Out. Just assign the different effect to the second copy in the timeline.

Of course you have the option of using mulitple titles, each having their own effects...

EDITED
I just threw this together, is this something like you are wanting to do?

Example

[cru]

ok so your saying the text "animation tab" is the only transistions i can use for titles? I was trying to use the effects like 3/d album/ book/clock, all the transitions in the effects tab...

i'm not sure you understand what i want, ok say that I have a overlayed video over the (Xtitle), next thing i want to appear on my screen is another (Ztitle) with NO video, but i cant add the "effects tab transitions" into the next Ztitle because there is no video.

[Ron P.]

You are correct, the Effects (Transitions) can only be applied between clips, which are images, or video, not text. That is the function of the Text Animation.

Workaround would be creating your text in an image program, as an image, insert that into VS. Then a transition can be used between them. The only other possibility is using MSP8. With it you can not only add animation via the titler, but motion paths, and overlay options. For VS to have these features, they would need to charge more $$$ and call it MSP..

[cru]

ok thanks, one more question.... in Title, i have a video in my first segment, now when i add a 2nd video, it automatically puts that video next to my first video in the timeline, but i dont want it next to my first video, i want it say at 10 seconds, and the first video ends at say 5 seconds, is this possible, cause i cant use the effects transistions, in overlay???

[Ken Berry]

You could insert a colour panel between the two videos, and stretch it for however long you want.

[cru]

wouldnt that increase my video size? because i need to keep my video under 100 mb, or maybe i'm thinking of something else what exatly do u mean, and how do i do this.

Nvm i used search like you say and found it, but does it still increase the size?

[Ron P.]

There is a Color Library, that contains color panels, which basically are just images of various colors. Drag one of them to the main video track, between your first and second video clips. You can adjust the duration of the color panel, just like you do with images, by dragging the right side of it.

You're right that you can't use transitions/effects in overlay tracks, but "thinking out of the box" ... yes you can.

Transitions in Overlay Tracks Tutorial

[Ken Berry]

And the added size from a still colour panel should be absolutely minimal...