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craftech wrote on 1/5/2006, 9:10 AM
Case in point. The credit roll generator should have been improved years ago instead of introducing new bells and whistles and leaving basic tasks in the prehistoric era.

Here is the workaround:

There is a limit as to how far you can stretch out the event by dragging left as far as I can tell.
Here is what I do. It works, but shouldn't be necessary if Sony/SF reworks the credit roll generator eventually:
1. Place credit roll at end of video

2. Type in all the information

3. Edit generated media: Change the time length to the desired amount (may involve trial and error)

4. Go back to timeline and place the cursor back from the end of the timeline a distance equal to the desired length of the credit roll. I did it by typing in the cursor position (in the little box under the timeline toward the right) so it was exact.

5. MOVE the Credit Roll Left to the cursor position WITHOUT resizing it.

6. Send the cursor to the end of the video by clicking Go To END (CTRL+END).

7. Stretch the end of the credit roll to the Right up to the cursor WITHOUT holding down the CTRL key.

8. If the speed is too fast go back and do it all over again from step 3 above.

Add to the above the fact that there are severe limitations in terms of the variety of fonts and colors one can use. You choose one for each of the three titile types and that's it. No more choices. Change it and they all change. Amateurish. Has been since Vegas 2.0

John

JL wrote on 1/5/2006, 10:18 AM
You might want to try asking this question over on the Movie Studio/Video Factory forum.

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=430827
Jessariah67 wrote on 1/5/2006, 2:09 PM
You can also use the velocity envelope (in Vegas) to tweak the speed. Personally, I don't mind controlling the speed by changing the time. You could also work from a PSD or other graphic file and just use pan/crop to perform the scroll.

That said, while you can do a lot with text in Vegas, that function is definitely its weakest link. I think others would agree that some palette of changeable effects for text would be nice. Wildform is okay for this, but rather limited and cumbersome to use. I opened the "free" Boris stuff once and have never given it a second look. Too complicated (for me, anyway). Still you can do a lot of tricks with layered PSDs.
Helo wrote on 1/9/2006, 4:48 AM
The credit roll and text generator are a joke. They are too amateur looking even for home movies so I end up doing all the text and credits in photoshop and using trackmotion. Sucks its takes so much additional time just to do simple credits.
craftech wrote on 1/9/2006, 5:37 AM
The credit roll and text generator are a joke. They are too amateur looking even for home movies so I end up doing all the text and credits in photoshop and using trackmotion. Sucks its takes so much additional time just to do simple credits.
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But:

"Vegas 6 takes advantage of cutting-edge parallel processing architectures, significantly reducing complex project-render times on multiprocessor, HT, and multicore systems."

Doesn't that make up for it? (wink wink)

John
johnmeyer wrote on 1/9/2006, 9:00 AM
I am resisting temptation to pile on here and ... ooh ... darn ... stupi ... arrgh ...

Whew, I did it. I managed to not say anything at all about the horrible text features in Vegas.
JJKizak wrote on 1/9/2006, 9:08 AM
Like I said before, Adam Wilt is the only dude that knows why and I haven't a clue as to understanding what he is saying.

JJK