Animation of titles - a few questions

[Berzelius]

I have VideoStudio 11 running under Win XP/HE/SP2.

1) In an existing project, if you move to a title how do you tell what preset animation (Manual - P93 - Applying animation - Bullet 3) has been applied. None of them is highlighted, so it is impossible, except perhaps by running the project clip, to tell what has been selected.

2) Manual - P93 - Applying animation - Bullet 4 says that you can drag the Pause duration handles to specify how long the text will pause after it enters and before it exits the screen. What exactly should I be looking for here - I can't see any obvious handles.

3) More by luck than judgement I found that the fade animation box is accessed by clicking on the TT icon. Surely TT means True Type - why confuse the user?

4) What exactly does VideoStudio mean by Cross-fade. I always assumed it to mean one subject fading out whilst another emerges. I may be wrong but in VideoStudio it seems to mean Fade In - Pause - Fade Out.

[Clevo]

Hi, hopefully there are some answeres for you here:

1) Double click the title while in the timeline. This wile switch to clip view and the title will appear on the preview window. you can then see which attributes go into making the title animate in the Animation panel

2) In clip mode, just under the preview window you'll see a blue bar with little black triangles. You adjust pause durations by draging these in or out. you can quickly see the effect by clicking "play" button in Clip mode

3) Cross fade basically is overlaying two clips whle the first is fading out and the other is fading in. VS does this with the cross fade transition between two clips in the Video Track

[MrA]

I have VideoStudio 11 running under Win XP/HE/SP2.

2) Manual - P93 - Applying animation - Bullet 4 says that you can drag the Pause duration handles to specify how long the text will pause after it enters and before it exits the screen. What exactly should I be looking for here - I can't see any obvious handles.

These are the pause handles..

[MrA]

I have VideoStudio 11 running under Win XP/HE/SP2.


3) More by luck than judgement I found that the fade animation box is accessed by clicking on the TT icon. Surely TT means True Type - why confuse the user?

4) What exactly does VideoStudio mean by Cross-fade. I always assumed it to mean one subject fading out whilst another emerges. I may be wrong but in VideoStudio it seems to mean Fade In - Pause - Fade Out.

To answer question 1), basically that is how it done. Even though, I know it doesn't work, I double click it. Just a feel good approach. (I use their MSP 8, and there is an "apply" button)

for 3), yes, thats the "universal" meaning of TT, why they chose that, maybe someone else can answer that choice.

for 4), yes you are correct, my guess is, it just an "easier" explantion of the effect for the text.

[Berzelius]

Thanks for the replies, especially the picture. I am now a much wiser man.

And could I say that you don't seem to waste any time posting answers! Perhaps Corel should bin the manual and just post a link to this forum.