Display Multiple Names

rollysons wrote on 7/3/2008, 3:34 PM
I am using VMS 6.0 I have a slideshow I am creating and one of the pictures has 9 people in it. What I would like to do is as the picture is displayed have the names of the people fade in next to them and then fade away. I have been achieving this effect with other pictures by using the sony text media generator and with the keyframes at the bottom and the placement tab have the words fade in and out over the pictures that have only had 3 people max.

I have only 4 video tracks and one has to be the picture so that limits me to only 3 events/names doesn't it? Is there a way to put more than one word on each event on the 3 non-picture tracks? Would that involve trial and error using the space bar and the return key to try to get more than one word per event? Would the easiest way be to create other projects and render them with 4 aligned tracks/events and put that rendered file onto a track in the slideshow?

Thanks for your time.

Shannon

Comments

TGS wrote on 7/3/2008, 6:11 PM
I don't have a direct answer to your exact question.
A workaround might be to have each name fade in and out, one at a time. Just shorten the length of each Text generator and make each name fade in & out quickly.
Chienworks wrote on 7/3/2008, 6:51 PM
Why not use multiple events? You only need to use as many tracks as you have names on the screen simultaneously. If name #4 doesn't appear until after name #1 is gone then you can put name #4 in a second event on the same track.