How to make text clips larger in the timeline?

[Noah Kadner]

You can’t- they are always the same size.

Noah

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[Matt Orfalea]

That’s messed up.

Thanks in advance!

Matt
https://www.youtube.com/orf

[Craig Alan]

If you are really hurting you could first try the zoom tool (Z)
and if that doesn’t do it
system preferences>accessibility and

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[Bret Williams]

It would be! But I think you’re looking for this little button right here in the roles area of the timeline inspector. It’s on by default because not many people see the point in the titles being big. But they were ready for you!

[Bret Williams]

And something I just realized playing with that feature…. when a clip is in a secondary or the primary it can’t be minimized in height by this button. Assumingly because you would have different clips of different heights in the same storyline. But it still turns on/off the thumbnails and the waveforms. Giving you quite a bit of control over what thumbs and waves the interface has to draw. For example you might be editing music and have no need to see the waveforms of dialog and effects displayed. Just turn on the little button next to the dialog and effects roles and you’d be set.

Always something new. But I’m not a big user of the timeline index or roles. So perhaps it’s something everyone else knew already.

[Patrice Freymond]

You could always select it in the Timeline Index…

P.

[Craig Alan]

Are we talking about things like titles? I just tried to blow a title clip up and nothing at all appears in the clip.

here it is in the timeline:

And in viewer

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[Craig Alan]

though blown up I can see that it’s a scrolling text.

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[Matt Orfalea]

thank you Bret

Thanks in advance!

Matt
https://www.youtube.com/orf

[Bret Williams]

He just wants the clips larger so it’s easier to click on. There aren’t any thumbs for titles. Though I don’t know why not.