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Avid Title Tool for rolling credits
Hi,
I’m having trouble with the avid title tool. I have an existing rolling title I made – it is only 1 minute long. I’d like to edit it and stretch it to last 2 or 3 minutes long. I can use the trim tool to shorten it, but I can’t lengthen it. I try to create a brand new rolling credit, but it keeps defaulting to make it a duration of 1 minutes, don’t know where I can set the duration for 3 minutes. I also don’t seem to be able to open an existing title and change the text or copy and paste the source text. When I use the effect editor and try to edit the text, the editor is empty. I’ve tried everything, getting pretty frustrating. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks
Robb -
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Does this time limit happen on new rolling titles?
Try a new one just for testing, drop it in the seq and see if you can trim out to length.
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Yeah. When I try to create a brand new test title, it makes it exactly the same duration (1 minute) as my previous titles. It doesn’t seem to prompt me anywhere to set the duration. Plus, I can’t seem to open my old title to copy/paste. I’m using the old title that I’ve dragged into the timeline from the bin.
Thanks
Robb -
When I go to edit the existing title, it keeps loading the Marquee Tool. It won’t ask me for a choice between the Title Tool and Marquee. I believe the Marquee is not what I need.
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A couple of your issues are in your settings.
The default title duration I believe is in Digitize or Media Creation (can’t recall right now).
However, when you trim the rolling title clip out to a longer length in the sequence, the start & end keyframes stay at the beginning and end of the clip, and the roll will take longer – or that’s how it’s supposed to work.
The other thing to check is your Title setting. Set it to either Title tool, Marquee, or “Ask Me” every time you create or edit a title.
No other advise at this time, tho. -
I David,
Thanks for your help.
No. There is no Digitize Setting, Media Creation setting sets up which hard drive the title will be saved to, but for the life of me, I can’t find where to setup the default title duration to longer than 1 minute. Every new title I make is always 1 minute, and in trim mode – you can shorten it, but never lengthen it. I did set the Marquee Title setting to Not ever Promote Titles to Marquee, and only use Title Tool. But it seems the great titles I’ve already done have been already Promoted to Marquee, and whenever I go to Edit them, the Marquee Tool is the only thing that opens. So I can’t ever go into that to get the text content in order to Copy Paste into a new Title.
At this point, If I can get the Title Tool to save a new 3 minute rolling title, I’ll just type all the credits in from scratch (since I can’t copy/paste) Any leads to the duration settings will be helpful. Thanks.
Robb -
Okay, should’ve gone to bed but am a bit obsessive when it comes to stuff like this. So I opened up my Avid to find the answer.
I found that I could vary the duration of a created title by adding or inserting pages to the content of the roll. This was done by adjusting the font size, adding lines inbetween, or inserting, removing, or adding pages to the title (Object pulldown menu with Title tool open).
I can only assume that some programmer in Tewksbury found the smoothest roll rate for Avid DV and baked it into the Title Tool code.
So if you want your title roll to be longer in duration, add more words!
Sounds like a joke, right? -
Ba Ba Ba Bingo! My man. Way 2 Go!
Go figure. How bizarre. Yes. At the bottom of the tool it has a field for page numbers, and I paste my existing credits from a Word Doc at font of 24 pt, it fills out 14 pages in the Title Tool. When I carriage return down a couple more times, it adds page 15, and then suddenly, when I save – I’ve got a 40 minute credit roll. Then I can trim it back down to 3 minutes from there. Thanks again!
Robb -
while you use to be able to drag this clip to the duration you want, you now have to set that duration with ins and outs before you create your title. You can drag it to a shorter duration but, being a pict sequence, you can’t drag it longer.
When encountering bugs like wabbling or interlacing, you’ll find simply adjusting your font size and/or speed/duration can fix this.
(or just use AE)
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Has anyone found a solution for this? I need to make a 9 minute scroll and the longest it’s letting me create a title is 4 minutes. I’m on version 6 of Avid.
I find it slightly absurd if Avid doesn’t have a solution for this besides “make your type bigger and add more spaces.”
https://vimeo.com/nickhennessey
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