A different kind of crawling text question

musman wrote on 9/5/2004, 6:52 AM
I've been trying to keep up with the crawling text posts lately and have a lot to experiment with, but I'm having a different kind of problem. The problem is once I create the text for the crawl and write the whole long thing, Vegas cuts off the beginning and end of it. I've done a work around by making the text much smaller than it should be and zooming in a lot in the pan/crop tool. This works, but the text starts to get a bit fuzzy.
Is there a way to fit the whole text w/o having Vegas crop it? I have a feeling I'm missing something obvious here, but I can't figure it out.
Thanks for any help!

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farss wrote on 9/5/2004, 7:07 AM
If you create the text in Vegas (the only way I've got good results BTW) you'll need to use two or more sets of text. Fit as much as you can in the first text event, get the motion OK and when you're happy with it copy it to a track above. Now type the next bit of text into that and then slide the event down the TL so the start of the text in it matches with the end of the text in the first event.
If you still need more text than will fit into two events, create a 3rd one again by copying, but that can go into the same track as the 1st one.
Pretty simple once you get the hang of it, of course unless you need to edit the text!

P.S. Make certain your text is left aligned for ease of alignement.
Bob.
musman wrote on 9/7/2004, 4:42 PM
Sorry for the delay. But thank you for that. It sounds a bit complecated, but I'll give it a try. Just ordered Boris Red and it's supposed to arrive tomorrow, so maybe things will be easier there. How's that for optimism!
Thanks again!