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Animated Text (crawler) key frames – need more than 10 seconds…HOW?
SONY Vegas 10. Using Key Frames to animate text. Creating a crawler in the lower-third area. However, I can’t figure out how to appropriate more time on the time line. I cannot place any more key frames beyond the 10 second point. Either I’m missing something or this is a built-in limit. Surely there must be a way to expand that time line to accommodate my longer-than-ten-second string. Help appreciated.
Walking Liberty
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It would help if you explained how you were performing the crawl. If you have a text event on the timeline that is 10 seconds and you want it to animate longer you only need to drag the edge of the text event out longer to the length that you want the crawl to take. So if you drag the right edge out to 20 seconds, you can now create keyframes for 20 seconds.
~jr
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Thank you. Problem solved. So embarrassingly simple.
I *thought* I should be able to add more time to that little key frame window, enabling me to place diamond key frame indicators out further than 10 seconds.
Maybe it’s a total non-issue and it seems the duration is actually handled by the length of the text box on the actual video time line.
I obviously have much more to learn. Thank you sincerely for taking your precious time to help. You’ve rescued me from some figurative quicksand and enabled me to finish a project much more quickly.
Walking Liberty
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I’m glad that’s all it was. The timeline determines when everything happens. Yes, there is a lot to learn but over time, you will understand the concepts and editing will become second nature to you. Feel free to ask any questions. That’s how we all learn. We enjoy helping new users.
~jr
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John, I’m on Vegas Pro 10 (at work) and if I drag my text event on the timeline to make it “longer”, it will just wrap the text event (i.e. if I drag it to a length of 15 seconds, it will play the text event to the 10 second mark, then wrap around and start at the beginning and play the first 5 seconds of the event again). I believe this is the expected outcome. I have to press the Generated Media button on the right edge of the text event to open the Edit Generated Media dialog box. Almost at the top of the box is a field called Duration: . I believe this defaults to 10:00 seconds normally. If you change this value to 15:00 then the keyframe timeline in this dialog box will reflect the full time of the event (which is now 15 seconds). Sorry for the wordy explanation. Can you confirm that that is how you extend a text event timewise (without it just being a repeat of the first 10 seconds)?
Andrew Lenczycki
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Andrew:
If this in fact works, it is precisely what I was looking for. It appears that I fixed my previous issue by stretching the text box on the video time line which made my crawler text fit into the 10 second window. It turned out fine, but I still thought there was a way to tweak that key frame time line. This certainly looks like it could be it. I must get back to work now before I can take time to try it, eager as I am, but it looks good. A big thank you for the graphic explanation. I truly appreciate the Creative Cow team.
Walking Liberty
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[Andrew Lenczycki] ” Can you confirm that that is how you extend a text event timewise (without it just being a repeat of the first 10 seconds)?”
Yes, sorry I was going from memory (which apparently isn’t as good as it use to be). 😉 For generated media, you must extend the duration of the media as well as extending the event as you suggested. Thanks for catching that.
~jr
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http://www.vasst.com
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