Do my retnas have jetjag or do the titles all quit too soon?

[yeagerd]

I have tried everything, I usually fix it by taking a screen shot of the last screen then using that photo to prolong the shot on slide shows but if you want title an animation or video, they have no use at all.

Which really sucks because their are some really nice ones. Maybe I am missing it because it seems like there would have to be a way to get the title to not immediately leave the scene the second it is done animating. It leads to a very unfinished and amateur look.

I own a big group of various programs that can do the job but to be honest, video studio is just so fall down easy to make great stuff on with this one exception.

I also had thought I read that the X5 version had SLI support but I cannot see where it is kicking in at all. For AE and PP I see the watts meter jump about 550 during heavy ops and about 280 to render with VS. Rendering is faster than in 4 but to render a full HD at 30 minutes is quite long. Comparing with other products rendering it in 20-30% less time and I think it is all around the second card siting idle, which may be an issue with my install or system, hence the question. Of course, the simplicity and fast production of VS more than makes up for it.

[Ken Berry]

When you drag one of the preset titles to the timeline, it will have a thicker yellow line at the right hand end. If you right click and hold your mouse on this yellow bar, you can then drag the bar to the right to whatever time length you want. With some of the titles, this might make the action in them a little too slow if the extension is too long, but play around and see what is acceptable to you.

As for SLI, I can't say I have ever seen any reference to VS taking advantage of it. However, in Settings > Preferences > Performance, have you ticked the three boxes enabling hardware acceleration for editing, file creation and performance optimization?

Footnote for those not sure what SLI stands for: It means Scalable Link Interface and is an nVidia term for linking two or more video cards together to produce a single output. In other words it's an application of parallel processing meant to increase the processing power available for graphics.

[yeagerd]

Yes I have all accelerators turned on.

I also have played with the time slide on the text but it is to the same end, it only seems to adjust the timing of the effect as a whole without any ability to bring the effect to conclusion, and then leave the text so it can not only be pretty but also be read by the watcher.

**To add to the other footnote, for the other half of the world (which I also run two firepro cards on a network render to segregate 3D calls) the ATI or AMD now version of the same tech is called Crossfire or Crossfire Pro, both allow you to use up to 4 video cards which I don't really see the point of but two is really good. No it does not double how fast you make video or watch video but, it gives a second set cores to handle operations like physics that were previously handled by the CPU. Physics as you can imagine are gigantic stacks of little tiny processes that need processed. Your CPU has Great Big cores but not very many, at most 16 but more likely 2-4 maybe hyperthreaded to 8 (it's like doing in town courier service with a semi truck) while your graphics card has hundreds of little tiny cores and can rip through a stack of physics like a warm knife through butter (or a bicycle through downtown NY), so strangely the benefit of adding SLI or CrossX isn't as much for graphics processing as it is for removing load from your CPU and letting it work on the big chunks. Since all bottlenecks are now clear and the system can work in a smooth process without pausing for one component to catch up... the end video is much smoother. VS5 uses Cuda Tech, VS4 does not. So if you have Nvidia cards, you want VS5 for sure. You don't have to have two cards for this, 1 will do it as well, but with two you can dedicate one.. in VS6 that is.. Fingers crossed.

So what does this all mean? Join the feedback link in the main forum and get signed up, then let them know you want multi GPU incorporated in X6 so we can all have video software that is not only easy and fun but also faster and much smoother. Your render will increase by about 20% but the video will loose all glitches and audio too. I own to the right of $6,000 in video and graphics software and prefer the Corel VS above all for just being able to relax and not stress every last brain cell to the max just to make a video. For personal use, it is everything you will need, once you have motion studio of course.

[BrianCee]

All of the titles supplied with VideoStudio are fully customisable and you can do whatever you like to them like changing the effect and how long it lasts etc.

Please refer to my screen shot below - I do not know which title you are using so I have chosen one at random - your choice may have slightly different attribute showing but the basics are the same.

Double click on the title in the preview screen so it shows highlighted - this should open the 'options' panel above the right hand end of the timeline - if not open it by clicking on the blue options tab above the very right hand end of the timeline. Note that the options panel has two tabs - by default it opens under the 'edit' tab but many of the effects are under the 'attributes' tab as shown in my screenshot.

now note that the scrubbing bar under the preview window has changed to a partially blue bar with orange 'handles' under it - moving those orange markers will change the timing of the effects so sliding the right one completely right can stop the final effect completely. Note also that depending on the title you chose you may have boxes under the edit tab to set the in and out directions of the title - centring the out one will leave the title on the screen.

click on the image for a larger view.

If all else fails you could of course make your own title to do whatever you want - most of the supplied titles have been made in VideoStudio anyrate , it's just a matter of choosing text and effects.

[lata]

Hi

If you wish to retain the text on screen for a longer period, no need for an image, simply create a second clip. (works for animations that end on screen)

Right click the title clip in the timeline and select Copy, drop this adjacent to the first, carefully position to first clip, should "snap to" do not overlap. Change the animation of the second clip to "Fade Out"

The image Brian provided shows the animation as Fly, change this to Fade.
Press the " TT's"symbol to manually set the animation, choose Fade Out.

Notice the blue bar below the preview screen, with the text selected this sets the pause durations.
Drag the orange trim handle to adjust timings.

The text will Fly In then Fade Out