[Dave Mccallister]

Sorry Spot…

On my system, double clicking the text merely leaves it jet black with a blinking cursor in the middle somewhere. It must still be selected (i.e., so that it appears over a light blue background) before it can be edited or else the dreaded first character thing happens.

Several users on different forums have noticed this behavior. I repeated the procedure twenty times. Same result every time. To be fair, maybe the Mac Pro does not treat double clicks correctly. But it does for every other XP app I have.

In any case, following the procedure I listed will work. I’m simply trying to make clear the need for confirmed text selection before attemping to edit.

Dave McCallister

[Dave Mccallister]

The ProType Titler is quite fussy, and offers little online help to resolve issues like this and no written help at all.

With an interface this non-intuitive, and behavior this unpredictable, solutions and their explanations need to be very specific. Happily, once a given skill is mastered all will be well and the raw power of this titler can be enjoyed.

After extensive research and help from other harried users, here is the real deal on editing Collection text, following Spot’s outline regarding the Fly-in preset:

Drag “The Brown Fox” to the timeline

[That is, the Fly-in option on the Collections list. You will see nothing, so move the timeline indicator 4 sec to the right and you will see the words you need to edit]

Click the “Edit Text” icon…..or double click the text

[this brings up the brown text edit bar at the top]

Modify the text

[The cursor is blinking in the sample text, making you think that directly editing the text is possible. But alas, this will not work if the first letter is changed, in which case the animation attributes will be lost.]

[The way to really do this is to first highlight the entire sample text by holding down the left mouse button and then sweep across the text until it has a light blue background. Then, and this is crucial, DO NOT MOVE THE CURSOR BY CLICKING ANYWHERE ELSE. Doing so deselects the text. Just start typing your desired text and it will replace the sample text beginning at the first letter, all while staying highlighted.]

Hit the ESC key or click the title bar to exit the titler…..

[Well, let’s not exit the titler. Let’s just exit the text edit mode….]

Now play your title.

[That is, move the timeline indicator all the way to the left and hit the spacebar. At this point everything should work.]

[Now for fun play with the keyframes until it looks like alphabet soup. If only this thing was true 3D……]

[Dave Mccallister]

I believer XP Pro is necessary to use all four cores in a Mac Pro, if a Mac Pro is the kind of Mac you are working with.

[Dave Mccallister]

Problem solved. 7.0d runs fine on Mac Pro now. It seems it may have been hanging on a VST plugin it apparently didn’t like.

[Dave Mccallister]

There is a checkbox in the properties screen for each video element marked “reduce interlace flicker.” This stopped the wavy tearing effect cold for me on a PIP this morning.

This was ahead of any MPEG rendering…I was still working with avi’s when I saw the artifacts in the PIP. Using Vegas 6.0c, NTSC DV.