Fade in Text?

[Tom Meegan]

Add a cross dissolve to the beginning of the clip in the timeline.

Alternatively, use keyframes to adjust the vary the opacity of the text clip from 0 to 100 percent over the duration of the fade in.

Best,

Tom Meegan
Woven Pixels, LLC

[Mark Suszko]

I’m doing this from memory, not looking at the mac right now, so I may get a detail wrong, but it won’t hurt anything to try this and play around with it.

If the text has an alpha channel, put your text on a separate video track, above the program video track. Click your mouse on the front edge of the clip, then hit command-T to get a default dissolve. Drag the end of the dissolve picon to adjust it, or hit command-click to open a window that lets you type in the transition rate and if the dissolve begins or ends or straddles the clip. Same for the back end.

If the clip has no alpha channel, but you want the text to ride over background but still show background around it, do everything the same as above, but then highlight the clip with the text, go to the menu bar up top, under modify, change the composite mode to, I think, “multiply”. If that’s not it, try one of the other composite modes.