Titles and underlining

LGO · Post by **LGO** » Fri May 01, 2009 5:33 am

Okay, now I have the problem solved of the titles being off center or flickering, so thought I would ask for help with a new titling problem!

I have sections of my scrolling title where I use a heading, if you will, i.e. - MUSIC or PROJECT TEAM, etc. I separate the heading from the following part of that section by putting the heading in all caps, bold, and underline it. Here's the problem . . .

When I underline anything in the title, it's not a solid underline. It's missing in the space between letters and space between words. It appears as a dashed line. Looks pretty sucky.

While I can live without having the headings underlined, is there a way to apply this feature without it looking like dashed line?

TIA,

LGO

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri May 01, 2009 1:16 pm

What happens if you do the text in something like Word, then copy/paste to VS?

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri May 01, 2009 1:17 pm

That's correct behavior. VS underlines the text and not blank spaces.

LGO · Post by **LGO** » Fri May 01, 2009 8:15 pm

Black Lab . . .

Good idea so I tried it. While the size of the fonts transferred to VS, the underlining did not.

Vidoman . . .

Okay, from what you say the underlining is working correctly. What on earth good is it???? Who would want their underlining to look like dashed lines?

Is there some way to put a solid, horizontal line underneath a line of text in scrolling credits?

I'm wondering if Cool 3D PS can do that? If so, it seems like it would be a real pain to create a long scrolling title in C3DPS just for the correct underlining effect . . .

Thanks, guys, for the input. Any other thoughts?

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Sat May 02, 2009 1:39 am

If you have a graphics editor like photoshop create an image to the screen size you want or larger. Set it to 8 bit graphics

Draw a white thin line on a black background.

Import the image into VS and place it on the overlay track. Adjust it so it fades in with the title.

It's faking it but it works.

You can do the whole title in Photoshop too... less fiddly.

LGO · Post by **LGO** » Sat May 02, 2009 2:04 am

Thanks for the idea, Clevo! As I understand it, the idea should work fine for a static title.

What I'm doing is a long list of credits at the end of a video that lasts 3'43" and scrolls from top to bottom.

Don't see how your idea would work for that. Or am I being thickheaded? (always a psosibility)

LGO