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Text placement moves with each new letter
Hi.
I am using Sony vegas 9.0. I am trying to simulate a computer typing effect by using the standard text media generator, can keyframing each additional letter in a sentence. (E.g. I start with t, then th, then the, so that it types out “the” one letter at a time).
The problem I am having is that the text placement is changing with each letter, pulling the whole text to the left as each letter is typed in. In other words it does the following:
t
th
theWhereas what I want it to do is to keep the first letter in its original position, and then add the other letters towards the right as they go along”
t
th
theI hope that explains the problem.
Is there any way of making it so that it does not push the text placement to the left when more letters are added? Any help with this would be appreciated, as I would otherwise have to change the text placement manually with each letter added, which is a hassle.
Thanks.
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3 Replies
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Click on the Placement tab and set it to one of the “Left” settings.
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Have you tried the “Protype Titler”?
It’s abit convoluted, I admit, for what your doing.
But I believe you can achieve the result your looking for.
To get to it, open your Generated Media (text) and click the plug-in option.
Oddly enough, it seems an older version of Vegas had a plug-in (typing text) just for that…
or maybe I’m just imagining that. 0_o -
THANK YOU! I couldn’t work out why it wasn’t working before. The reason was that I put placement to “bottom left” but then I would adjust the placement manually to get it to sit where I wanted, but that would change the setting to “free flow” which would eliminate the “left” property.
So, I will do as you said and use the “bottom left” placement setting, and later move the text to where I want it with the pan/crop function instead.
Thank you for your help!
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