Titles and Visual Effects for them...

[GWild]

What is the trick to selecting a specific title effect when creating a new video?

I can select an effect from the hundreds available, drag it down onto the title clip area; then play it and the title is often NOT what I selected; so I delete the title effect from the clip area and try dragging a different title effect down, add my text, and play. But I still get the first weird effect I never selected.

And why, after I enter text into the effect does the "Add title text here" keep showing up ? Pretty confusing because it looks like I haven't filled in the text, yet it plays (just with the wrong effect). Oh, and adding more text in that space doesn't change anything. Just comes right back.

[gewb]

Need more information. Which version VS? When you say "select an effect" where are you making the selection? Are you trying to add a motion effect to an existing title selection?

Not clear on what you need assistance with.

Regards,
GEWB

[GWild]

VS-Ult10Pro - in the Edit panes, the [T] menu: selecting from the animated Title region (all sorts of wild flipping text)... drag one that I like down to the Title area ... but the animation doesn't match the preview.

May be related to the VS 125% mouse cursor bug "jumping" right & down with some clicks inside VS - thus what I click isn't what VS selects.

[GWild]

Also - when I enter text, then try to deselect the text box to recenter it or move it where I want, a new one is created that I then have to go delete... pretty buggy, if you ask me.

Area of interest in the attached image.

[asik1]

Gwild, all this happens to you because the default is multiple titles if you untick that for the single, you will have only a single text per clip.
Once you will be more proficient in VS you will overcome this default.

[lata]

Hi

Some info that may help.

1 / When you select any title in the library the titles animation should play in the preview screen.
You can right click the selection to choose Insert To – Title Track

2 / If you wish to edit that title, first select the title on the timeline then click preview screen, once.
That will show the text selected, double click the text to set curser, start typing.

3 / If you click outside the box then a new title/box will be created, Multiple Titles, (more then one box within the same clip.)

4 / If no title clips selected on timeline then “Double Click Here” will show, expecting you to create a new title clip.

5 / With the Text selected on screen, choose the Attributes tab to set animations.
Click the “TT” s for a manual approach to setting Animations.

6 / The bar below the preview screen can be used to set Pause Duration timings for your animation.

[GWild]

Your version of VSX10Pro works differently than mine. When I right click things (many, but not all) the cursor jumps and I see no menus. Since VS is the only application I own that has this quirk ... I presume it is broken.

And when I do work around the bug and get to editing text (double-clicking) I still get two or more text boxes in the preview area - one I want, others I don't want; and then I still get the "click here to add title text" message that should NOT be there since I have already added text.

I still can't select the title animation I want to use.

[TonyP]

You have to be specific on which animation you want to apply to your titles. There are many online tutorials to get you up and running. With X10, you also get 21 days free access to StudioBacklot.tv.
Stop by and watch the tutorials (or if you search youtube, Gripps is amazing). Learning the basic functions of the software will help translate into easier learning of the other aspects of it.
X10 operates the same on every computer and OS version it supports.

[lata]

GWild

Please confirm that if you set the monitor scaling to 100% rather than using 125% that the problem persists
as you other post here:-

http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=61806

[GWild]

lata - as I have said, I will not break all of my other applications just to use VS. It would be like me asking you to cover one eye to use your car at night. Since the issue is mostly with pull-down menus, pretty sure the scale factor I happen to use isn't the issue.

Windows Movie Maker was free, and made making video very easy, including titles, transitions, clipping, editing, and soundtracks... just about everything most casual users need to do. And all without third party tricks and third party groups making tutorials. The only thing it didn't do better than VS was resampling to different resolutions and data rates; but FFMPEG does that really well, faster than VS, and with what I think is overall better results. Since Windows no longer supports the app, I had to get something else, and I chose VS. After using VS for a few weeks, and I am still struggling with the most basic operations, I now feel strongly that was a bad choice.

Thanks - but I consider this topic closed.

[lata]

Hi
Clearly you cannot use the program as it is…..
Your first post here was on the 7th of May, assuming you had just purchased the program your 30 day money back option will still be available.

[TonyP]

If you consider WMM the equal of VS or any other commercial editor, you are right, VS is not for you. The tutorials (which you clearly ignored because you know so much more) are there to get people up and running who are new to editing, which you clearly are. This program is far more flexible and more complex (if you want) than WMM. Get your money back and use WMM. The rest that use the program will continue to produce videos that can not be made in WMM. But then, "casual" is where you are at. Nothing wrong with that. We are all at different points in life. But to summarily dismiss VS because of your inability to use it, is disingenuous at best. And you say you programmed $10K programs... I wonder how easy it was to use without a manual.

You've never used a consumer or professional editing program judging by your post, because they all are the same in having plugins, online tutorials, addons, motion tracking, subtitles, burning DVD's, multicam editing, color correcting and more. From consumer to high end pro editors that are used to edit the movies and television shows we all watch. Heck, even for Youtube! For people who want to do more than what WMM can do, and not be limited by the simplistic track, limited text and transitions, or lack of being able to color correct/enhance a poorly lit or shot video.
Not one application I have on my computer has ever been broken by using VS. Learning to use a program as it was programmed, not how you think it should be programmed is the key to successfully using any program. Even the one you worked with.

[asik1]

my 2cents,
Gwild why do you care if WMM is supported or not. if it does 90% of what you need than keep on use it.
I still have and use WMM 2.1 that is "officially" dead for many years.
Here you can have the last of the WMM
http://movies.blainesville.com/2016/12/ ... going.html
I believe that it will work fine on 10.

[MrJohnny]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... 874d1d2aae
The above link is hopefully useful.
When computers and peripherals do not work as expected can be very frustrating.

John

[wkf94025]

This is the nearest thread I could find that addresses the questions I have about title text sizing. I've been a casual user of VS for years, currently on X9 on Windows 10. Generally a happy and capable user, but frustrated with the lack of documentation and confusing behavior associated with font sizing in titles. I overlay them on various scenes in my videos, typically near the bottom of the window, centered horizontally. The behavior I am seeing is that the rendered size is a function of the length of the text string, due to some auto-sizing behavior on the text box. I should also mention that I want fade in and fade out on all my title overlays. I implement that by using Customize Motion, keyframes, and opacity. opacity set to zero at start and end of title, and set to 100% one second into title, and one second before end of title duration. Works great. But once I've done that for one title, I want to copy it from the timeline, and past it at the next time point that I want a title at. that cut and past means I don't have to tediously create the two intermediate keyframes, play with opacity 0->100->100->0, etc. Time saver. I double click on the text in the duplicated title, and when the new string is substantially longer (or shorter?) than the string in the previous title, the text box seems to autosize, and the font is scaled down. So then I have to play with size attribute, and/or graphically pull the corners of the text box.

Is there a way to keep all titles the same font size in the actual rendering? I've noticed the nominal font size in the attributes screen often doesn't seem to always match with rendered size. It's frustrating, and makes my title sizes somewhat random as I continue through the timeline, copying previous title and pasting at new title event location.

Also, is there a better/faster/easier way to get titles to fade in / fade out? Other than the method I describe above with Customize Motion, keyframes, and opacity?

I've read the documentation on titles, and found nothing helpful on either question above.

Thanks for any expert guidance you can provide.
Kelly