fading text overlay

gmes29 wrote on 9/30/2006, 3:49 PM
i'm creating an intro clip to one of my projects. since it is a sporting event, i want to put the date of the event at the bottom using generated text on the overlay track and have it (just the text) fade out after about 5-6 seconds. in Pinnacle, you would just place a fade transition immediately after the text 'clip' on the overlay track and only the text would fade out. when i try the same thing in VMS (transition only in the overlay track), all the video tracks fade out (including the main track) when i reach the transition. huh?? why is this? since i placed the transition on the overlay track only, why isn't the text the only thing faded??

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gmes29 wrote on 9/30/2006, 4:10 PM
well, it looks like it was the dissolve option i had selected - fade through color w/black as the color. what fixed it was changing the color (via the slider thingy) to transparent (0,0,0,0).
aamof, changing the option to greyscale or practically anything else seemed to work too so i guess the problem is solved..
Tim L wrote on 9/30/2006, 4:17 PM
If you simply want to fade out an event -- any event, whether video, text, or audio, etc. -- you can do this easily without applying a transition. Look at the upper right corner at the end of an event, or the upper left corner at the beginning of one. See the little blue triangle in the corner? Move your mouse pointer there, and the mouse pointer will change to an arc with a double-headed arrow. Click and drag the edge of the clip inward, and you will get a fade in or fade out. You can right-click in the faded area and select what type of fade -- a straight line, an S-curve, etc.

To get rid of a fade, simply grab the line at the end of the arc and drag it back to the edge of the event.

Tim L