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Creating long scrolling text in vegas 10
I have recently swaped from vegas 8 to vegas 10. In the old vegas I could creat a bottom line scrolling text that could last as long as I wanted. In the placement tab of my text media genarator there was a timeline to be able to stretch this out. I understand how to keyframe a short scolling text but where I am struggling is keyframing a 30 word scrolling text. It only wants to keyframe the section that is showing in the current frame which means it is scrolling the frame and not the text. Can anyone let me know how to do this in vegas 10. Why do they change things???? I know to make it easier.. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Make sure that the Duration length in your Generated Media matches the desired length.
For example, text defaults to 5 sec.
If you want it to be 10 sec. long, you drag it out on the timeline to 10 sec. but you also have to change the time in the location mentioned above. -
Yeah you there is a button in media generators that you can click to match the timelength but the problem is getting the entire line of text to show rather than the section that shows in the frame
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I’m not sure why you’re having problems because, other than the “Animate” button, everything else is essentially the same.
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Agreed on the timeline matching. I ran into this in Ver 9, and I was lucky enough to be running the timeline to music. My matching the txt to the timeline slot was in accurate at best, so I had to ad enough time to the segment to complete the scroll. A little bit of guess work, and it worked out fine. I also added a few blank lines to the text on top, and at the end to make sure it started in the correct place, and not in the middle of the screen where the dissolve “in” brought it on the screen.
If it moves . . . Shoot it!
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Thanks for the help Mike
Please remember that some of us are just ametuers like myself. I have been doing this about 14 months and there are a lot of things I can do but dont know how I do them. Anyway when you said Animate it all clicked. I had not pressed that button yet. I was trying to keyframe it in the pan crop section which works great if you have a two word text. When I hit the animate button it looked just like vegas 8 again. After doing this all this time I am enrolled to start college at Full Sail in January. So finally i can understand how I do what I do. Thanks Again for the help. -
You’re welcome Brian.
I usually do a screenshot as I’m a firm believer in “a picture is worth 1,000 words” but I neglected to do that this time.
Too bad as I’m sure it would’ve cleared things up a lot quicker.
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Sorry – this thread is nearest I have to my problem. – Can you PLEASE tell me (Vegas 11). I have selected media generator Text Scroll left.
I select 12 point then paste in this text “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell, my blessing season this in thee”
Can you tell me what steps I should take to get this scrolling ticket tape fashion along the bottom of the screen?
What do you mean stretch it?
Maybe I’ll start a new thread if I don’t get a reply on this.
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