Scrolling text (not credits) (Studio 12)

[Nick White]

Just to clarify, I want several screens of text, so to speak. So, able to scroll for some considerable time, with the total scroll far bigger than the height of the screen. Like credits only just a single column of text.

I can do one screen using Track Pan zoom , or Event Pan Zoom, but that only allows for writing that fits the screen height. I suppose I could place several events, using each to scroll only what it could contain, but that could get messy.

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Mike Kujbida]

See if this technique/trick works for you.

Place a text media on the timeline.
Set it to the length you want, set the text size to 20 (this is just a starting point so feel free to adjust it later as needed).
Copy and paste all your text into the one screen.
Switch to the Placement tab.
Adjust the Y value to a positive value high enough that the text just disappears off the bottom of the screen.
This will automatically create a keyframe at the beginning.
At the bottom of this timeline, hit the Last Keyframe button and change the Y value to a negative number.
i.e. if the beginning was +4, the end is -4.
Adjust your font colours, drop shadow, etc. as desired.
Close the window and play it.
That’s all there is to it.

[Nick White]

Thank you for that. I will give it a go when I get back to the multimedia PC…..specialising hath its downside….

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

Mike. Thanks for your help.

I am a bit confused. I the wrong place.

I can’t find a placement tab. I started in the text editing pane, which pops up as soon as I place the text clip, and could not find it there. So I tried Video Clip FX, but although I can set X,Y values and rotation, the trouble is that what shows is only the text that will fit on the screen. Trying to scroll more than one screen’s worth just results in truncated tops and bottom of the text.

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

Mike.I have to assume you are talking Pro, not Studio

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

Well until something better comes along:
Place the amount of text in a clip so that the frame is just full, both vertically and horizontally. Pan/Crop so that at the very start of the clip the text is _just_ off screen at the Bottom. Then at the end of the clip’s pan/crop timeline, make it _just_ off the Top of the frame.

Place another clip on a separate track. Make it start exactly halfway along the first clip. Again fill the frame with text. Do exactly what happened in the first clip. So just as the last line of the first clip’s text is halfway up the frame, the second clip’s text is also halfway up; it started at the bottom just as the last line of text left the bottom of the screen.

AFAICS Every clip has to be exactly the same length, and the two keyframes must be right at the start and finish. Otherwise some really weird stuff can happen. DAMHIKT.

In the end you will reach a clip that has the last text, filing it or not, and that just scrolls off.

I am but an egg, and I am sure this can be refined with compositing modes etc, but it works and it’s simple.

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Nick White]

I posted a reply thinking that you were referring to Pro. I was wr….wrrr….wrrr…wrong. Jorma put me right, in that it looks one way one place and another way another place. shudder.

However, I am not sure that what you suggest allows scrolling of text that is bigger than the screen, so I can do a long list of stuff, not just a screenful.

Nick
Head: Hertz Music

[Mike Kujbida]

Nick, sorry for the delay but things have have really crazy at work lately and I haven’t had a chance to respond.
Yes, I do have Pro but, according to what Jorma said in your other post on this issue, text behaves the same way in Movie Studio.
What you’re looking for is Text or Legacy Text option in the Media Generators tab.

Once you find it, drag the highlighted one (Default Text) down to your timeline and you will see the following tabs. Then proceed as I described earlier.

[Jorma Nippala]

Nick,
and if i understand correctly the scrolling of text that is bigger than the screen wish, here’s a tip.
Create a selection area on the timeline, Right-click the track in that selection area and choose to add your text or generated media that way. Then it will match the length of the selection area.

[Nick White]

Hay Jorma. Thanks for the reply.

My problem was not the length of the clip. I was trying to use Pan and Crop to scroll the text, not the Location/ positioning thing that Mike talked of…..’cause I could not find it. 🙁 Now I have found what he was talking about, it works fine.

Nick
Head: Hertz Music