Did you buy VideoFactory or ScreenBlast?

Bought Screenblast 3 - I love it. Am finding stuff pretty easily, although, I am sure there are a lot of hidden commands based on what I have read on these forums.

The one thing I have yet to find is how to edit text in a scrolling credit after it has been created..... anyone have the answer to that?

I think all you have to do is to 'right click' on it on the time line, then there should be an option to open it. Click that and you should see a window open up and within there, I beleive the first choice, if you click it you should be able to see your text.....

I'm at work, but I beleive it is something like that... I check it out when I get home.

:)

If you click on the FX button in the lower right corner of the event you’ll get back to the text edit window. The log way is to right-click on the event and select Properties then select the Text/Backdrop tab. Hitting the Insert key will insert new lines. You can do the same thing just by hitting the Enter key. You can edit existing text just by double clicking in the text box.

To make the scroll run slower, just pull the event to the length you want and the go into the Text/Backdrop dialog (FX button) and in the upper right corner there is a button next to the media length readout called Set to event length. If you push it the event will be as long as you made the media. Optionally you can set the length in the dialog but then you have to move the end of the media on the timeline to match that length anyway. I find the first way easier. Do the opposite to shorten.

~jr

JR,

I new you'ld have an easier way !

Pete

Regardless of which suggestion I try - the original text simply is not there. It still appears in the original event, but not when I try to edit it.... It works for regular text, but not the text in a credit roll.

Both of those methods work for me - have you put the credits on the video overlay track?

Ian G.

Credits were originally on the text track... but even when I move them down to the video overlay track, I still cannot edit the existing text - the text is not even listed in the credit text portion (left) of the property screen... it is as if it is blank, waiting for the first line of text to be added - all I see is <insert text here>. Any modification to this screen at all, and I lose the existing text.

Sounds like a ghost in the machine. I would start a new project and add a credit roll and then make sure you can go back in and edit it. This will at least tell you how it’s supposed to work. What you are experiencing appears to be a bug. And it may just be one you can never reproduce. Try it in a new project and see.

~jr

And of course I was testing in VF, not Screenblast. I've just spoken to a friend who's got Screenblast and she can duplicate the problem - it's a bug!

Ian G

Yea, I’m testing in VF as well. I wish there was a downloadable demo of Screenblast so we could be more accurate about how we answer questions. I just see no reason to purchase it when I have Vegas4+DVD already.

~jr

Have you tried this link?

http://sonicfoundry.com/download/step2.asp?DID=452

Here's what I did:
1. Drag a video clip onto the video track on the timeline
2. Select the Text & Backdrops tab in the lower left window
3. Select 'credit roll' from menu on left
4. Select 'scrolling on transparent' and drag it up to the text track over the video clip
5. In the Video Event Properties dialog box, unter 'item text' I typed 'text line 1', text line 2', etc. up to line 5. Each on a separate line.
6. Hit the 'play' button in the video event properties window to preview the title
7. It works fine. The text lines roll over the video on the video track.
8. I closed the event properties window.
9. I go back to the beginning of the timeline and hit 'play'
10. The title still rolls correctly over the video
11. I select the title clip on the timeline and right click to reopen the vide event properties window.
12. The 'title line 1',etc. text that I had entered previously doesn't show up. where it should in the dialog box. The 'Item Text' section of the dialog box is blank, just as if nothing had been typed into it.
13. I hit 'play' in the video event properties dialog box to preview the title
14. The title still rolls correctly over the video even though the text isn't visible in the 'item text' section.

It seems like it might be some kind of bug, or else I'm doing something wrong too.

BrianJ exactly duplicated the problem - the text, although still viewable as a credit roll, does not show up in the property box to be edited.... If you type anything else, it will overwrite the original text too!!! Its not just about editing the original text either - there is no way to change font, color, size, etc...

Could it be a bug, or a deliberate issue? I noticed that text events get added to the media pool, so I thought perhaps it was editable there - but I didn't see any way to do that.

I'll fire off an email to tech support (if there is any) and see if I can get an answer. BrianJ, you did such a good job describing it, that I'm going to cut & paste your description in my message... hope that is OK.

> Have you tried this link?

Yes, in fact I have it installed already only to find that I need a key code, which no one seems to have.

Do you know how to get a demo key?

~jr

Well, looks like it is an acknowledged bug now! Not bad - Sony's response came in less than 2 hours - and on a saturday no less. Here is their response to the inability to edit the text in a credit roll:

Hi Don,

Thanks for writing. Thanks to your detailed instructions I have reproduced the problem. I have submitted it to the developers so they can add it to their bug database. This should be fixed in a future update, but unfortunately I do not know when that is planned for.

Sincerely,

Brian P.
Technical Support
Sony Pictures Digital
Software Division

Only if your willing to go to "hackers web sites", as far as I can see.

That’s what I thought. It would be nice is Sony allowed people to download a demo so they can see what Screenblast Movie Studio 3.0 is all about. I hope they’re working on this.

~jr