Titles

[TAMc]

Hi guys. Just updated/graded from Videostudio9(XP) to X5Pro(w7) & having fun getting into everything. Really appreciate the absence of major tinkering between versions, which helps infrequent upgrade users like me! But - after a lot of time experimenting & trawling tutorials & forums - am struggling with some details of titling (dealt with the greyed-out font by deleting & starting all over again!). Having tried using a stock animated title & fiddling around with attributes & filters - using drop characters - I'm still trying to find a way to keep the whole block on screen for a few seconds so it can be read/absorbed. Extending the clip duration just slows the whole process down & it still jumps to the next clip without proper time for viewers to take it all in. Have I missed something obvious please? Thanks so much.

Trevor Mc

[canuck]

Having a bit of a hard time understanding exactly what you are trying to do and how you are doing it.

If I understand your post then you want to show a text on the screen for a certain length of time? Is that correct? Do you want the text to have animation?

[TAMc]

Hi, yes, thanks. I've used one of the in-house 'Lorem Ipsum' animated titles, which I've chenged to my own text & it drops a text character at a time. Trouble is that it moves on to the next slide almost before the final character fully drops, which doesn't look smooth; it needs the whole text block to stay in place for a second or two. Extending the clip's duration doesn't solve the issue. Am sure there's a simple solution but haven't found it yet!

[lata]

Hi

It depends on the animation you use as to whether you can pause on screen, some animations just don’t do it, most will.
Which one are you actually using.

A simple one would be cross fade.............

Try the manual approach

Add your own text, then choose animation Fly
Press the two TT's for a manual approach, play with these settings.....
Select the enter point make the exit point on screen, the middle
set the pause duration, can be modified later by adjusting the bar intermediately below the preview screen.

Ok the text floats on screen to the middle and disappears.

Right click the text clip within the timeline and select copy, place adjacent to first clip.
Clips butt up, not overlapped
Change the animation of the second clip to say Fade --TT's again for fade out.

Now try to modify the 'Lorem Ipsum' text templates

[TAMc]

Thanks so much for your help with that. Taking out my my chosen 'fade to black' transition & replacing with 'crossfade' certainly smoothed the change, even better with an added short black 'colour' clip sandwiched between 2 crossfades. That was good enough for this stage in the project but I'll persevere at leisure with the further steps mentioned for future use.

I'd been using drop animation & those 'TT' options don't seem available on it? Playing around with fly & those wider animation settings opens up much wider possibilities - thanks again.

[lata]

Hi

When I said "crossfade" I was referring to the text animation, the options you find after selecting the TT's.

The "fade to black" is a transitions from the library, adding these will affect the other clips in the timeline.

Using Drop the TT's are available but limited in what you can do

[TAMc]

That's cracked it, absolutely what I was hoping for - using fade animation & setting an intermediate pause length gives the right outcome. Thank you so much.

Trevor M