Cannot change text size

Peyton-Todd wrote on 9/17/2012, 3:29 PM
I have a problem changing the size of text I use for sub-titles on a video that I have asked the tech support people at Vegas way back in May, and still have received no reply to. (It took me a while to realize that their support team and this forum are different; sorry.)

The problem is quite simply that whatever changes I make in the Text dialog box are simply ignored. It echoes them for you (e.g. if you say 'Arial' instead of Verdana, it keeps that value in the drop-down box, and most importantly for my purpose, if you say font size 22 instead of 48 it echoes that). But no change in the actual text one has placed on the screen results.

I discovered that one can affect the text size with a slider labeled 'Scale' but there appears to be no way to set this to a precise value (one's intuitive choice will differ from one video clip to another, especially if one does not have steady hands.) And there seems to be no way at all to change the font face.

Is this a known bug? A problem with my installation (11.0, Build 683, Windows 7 64-bit)?

Thanks for your help.

-Peyton

Comments

Former user wrote on 9/17/2012, 5:08 PM
Did you select all of the text first?

Dave T2
Peyton-Todd wrote on 9/18/2012, 1:38 PM
Right you are! And many thanks. But it still seems like a bug of sorts. For why would changes in the text's font face and font size (also whether it's bold, italic, or regular) require selecting the text while changes in color or scale do not?

Former user wrote on 9/18/2012, 2:09 PM
It used to work the way you were using. Something changed, but as you say, it is inconsistent.

Glad it worked out though.

Dave T2
Peyton-Todd wrote on 9/18/2012, 7:06 PM
I can sorta see a reason for this inconsistency if the designers thought a user might want to italicize or bold just one part of a line of text (or change the font face or font size of just that part?), but they didn't think this would be likely for color (or felt users should be protected from any choice they considered so tacky?).

As so scale, I confess I don't really know what it means. For me at this point, it means only that I have to be sure to keep that in its default state so my choices as to font size will lead to consistent results.

Peyton
Kimberly wrote on 9/18/2012, 7:36 PM
Peyton:

Is the text a new text event that you just added, or is it a text event from an existing *.veg file.

I encountered something similar when I was working with some *.veg files that were created on a different computer. So the current editing computer did not have all the plug-ins and fonts loaded. I had a number of text events that would display, but I could not edit them. Not sure if that helps but maybe it will give you some ideas.

Regards,

Kimberly
Peyton-Todd wrote on 9/18/2012, 8:12 PM
Thanks. I first encountered the problem on existing files that had been prepared in Vegas 9 (or was it 10? I forgot) - and Yes, on a different computer as I recall.But the experience that led me to ask for help on this problem once again was with a new text event I had just just added in a brand new veg file.

As to fonts, I'm flat BEWILDERED by all the fonts that come up in the text dialog's drop-down font window in Vegas 11, at least on my 64-bit Win 7 computer!

Peyton :-)