Scrolling text on pictures

[Rob Strobbe]

The text needs to be on a separate track, and that track must be above the track with the picture. As long as you keep those two things in mind, I can’t think of anything that prevent you from seeing both.

Rob

[Jeff Geck]

Here’s a screen shot. I done exactly what you said:

I don’t know what i’m doing wrong but i can’t get Just the text to show up in the picture. I want it to scroll across if possible.
Jeff

[Rob Strobbe]

Two problems that I can tell just from that screenshot:

1. Your text has a black background.
2. The track with your picture is muted.

To fix #1, click the little filmstrip icon for the text event, go to the Properties tab, and change the background color to transparent.

To fix #2, disable the Mute button (the circle with a line through it) on the picture’s track.

That will at least get your text to show over the picture. Then follow the rest of your other tutorial to position and scroll the text.

Rob

[Jeff Geck]

I probably sound really dumb about now but i don’t see where to make the background transparent. I went to Generated Media (the filmstrip botton on the text track) and then to properties and see nothing about Transparency.
Thanks
Jeff

[Rob Strobbe]

On that Properties tab, have you got two sections labled “Text Color” and “Background Color”? On both, you should see tools for adjusting the color. The tool on the top left (in each section) controls the opacity for that color. Drag the little white flag up and down to change the opacity level for that color — all the way to the top for completely opaque, all the way to the bottom for completely transparent.

You can also type a value into the Alpha channel box (the one labeled “A”) — 255 is opaque, 0 is transparent.

Rob

[Jeff Geck]

Great. Thanks a lot!!