Character spacing in Title section

leszektrojanowski · Post by **leszektrojanowski** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:12 pm

Hi,

I was trying to space out the titles in the window, but I don't know if that's possible. I am a user of Corel VideoStudio.

Here's what I mean in a Word Document.

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/6273 ... pacing.jpg

Thank you.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:15 pm

In short, no. There is no means to do it in VS. I tried copying and pasting from Word, but it did not retain the formatting once it was pasted into VS. So I think you have two options. You can either do your title in something like Word, then make it an image file that you import into VS, or you can just type the title in VS and manually set the spacing by leaving spaces between the characters and adjusting them with the font size.

mitchell65 · Post by **mitchell65** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:25 pm

May I offer an alternative. Letter spacing will either increase or decrease the "distance" between letters at a set amount. If the idea is to make a title look optically correct then it is preferable to use "Kerning". This enables you to adjust the distance between each pair of letters in a single word. Example: If you have a word with double "O" in it as in "LOOK" then you rarely need to increase the space between the two "Os". However if your word has "IE" or "IK" or similar then you need more space between IE than OO to make it look "Optically correct". Most DTP programs or programs designed for web graphics will have a kerning facility. Usually you hold down the Ctrl key and hit space to increase the space by a very small amount. Then when you have your title exactly how you want it to look, save it to a format that VS can handle and import it as an image. You can then put it on the timeline and use all the effects available to any other image. There are many good DTP or image editors available. I'm sure you will find a suitable one in Freeware.
Hope this is useful
Jhn