Text or Title Fading

mkochsch · Post by **mkochsch** » Mon May 14, 2007 7:20 pm

How do I make text fade in and out? Should I use "Title" or do I overlay text on my clip directly somehow? Thx.

~m

mkochsch · Post by **mkochsch** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:45 pm

I've figured out a workaround two titles with the same text back to back. Use the fade in on the first one and fade out of the second one. There must be an easier way though...

~m

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:39 pm

You use Title > Animation and you will have several presets for fade.

Unfortunately, I am away from home at the moment and don't have any version of VS on the computer I am using. So I can't give any more information than that... Hopefully someone else might jump in...

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:47 pm

The fact that you found the fade-in and fade-out but haven't found the cross-fade baffles me.

Anyway, with your title selected, click on the Animation tab. Check the Apply Animation box and choose Fade from the Type drop-down box. To the right of the drop-down box is the Customization button (two Ts). Click on that and choose the cross-fade option. You can further choose wheter to fade the character, word, line or text.

Furthermore, I have also used your "work around" when I want to fade in a title, leave it static for a moment, then fade out. In that instance I would actually use 3 exact titles, the first two with animation, the middle one without.

mkochsch · Post by **mkochsch** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:37 am

Black Lab wrote:The fact that you found the fade-in and fade-out but haven't found the cross-fade baffles me.

O I baffle myself quite a bit...now I'm seeing the crossfade option....thanks for your patience...

~m