I did an audio book from one of my short stories and would like to scroll down the text while talking. Of course the abysimal credit roll addon is not suitable for that task. Any ideas how to do that or is there a add-on I could puchase that gives me more controll over rolling text? thank you!
-sam
Print the pages to a series of .png files. Use Pan/Crop to scroll through the text.
Yeah, knew about this one, but its just too much work.
Isnt there any easier way?
No.
"Isnt there any easier way?"
Yes. You could pay me or someone else to do it. I just had my house painted and I didn't do it myself.
Since it is extremely difficult to listen to someone while trying to read at the same time -- and trying to read a scrolling text more difficult still -- why not use frames of text which change at appropriate points in the story. You could likely do this more easily and gracefully in PowerPoint than in an NLE. Vegas has been designed to do many things: what you're trying to do isn't one of them!
Since it is extremely difficult to listen to someone while trying to read at the same time -- and trying to read a scrolling text more difficult still -- why not use frames of text which change at appropriate points in the story. You could likely do this more easily and gracefully in PowerPoint than in an NLE. Vegas has been designed to do many things: what you're trying to do isn't one of them!
guess you are right. I use Vegas since its inception and never before needed that either.
and yeah, it probably isnt a good idea to irritate the listener with additional reading chores :-)
I linked the written text in the youtube so thats been taken care of anyway.
thanx for all your input - sincere or not
-sam
Vegas does this easily, just trying to compose in Vegas titler is really cumbersome. Better, paste text from a text editor into Vegas scrolling titles, I haven't encountered any limit to how many lines, then sync it up with animation, if you've got a split screen just make it as long as your talk. But like JD says above, it's nicer if you export a.png from a graphics program, one with decent formatting options (I use Xara Photo and Graphic designer). Just create 1920Xhowever long you need, again, don't know if there's a limit, maybe have a few pages at a time, then export as .png, and animate. Better still, use closed captions. Easiest of all, if it's going to YouTube, use their automatic captions, if you don't mind some weird interpretations.
Dang - you posted while I was composing.
You would probably be better off with a specific Teleprompter/Autcue app for this purpose. There are several free ones available on the internet.
Vegas does this easily, just trying to compose in Vegas titler is really cumbersome. Better, paste text from a text editor into Vegas scrolling titles, I haven't encountered any limit to how many lines, then sync it up with animation.
well the limit is that the line length is equal to a paragraph which means importing a 20+ A4 pages text just doesnt fly.
I would have to edit each single line to be the right length with hard returns before doing it.
also one can only import txt files, not doc. so all formatting is lost.
the autocue aka prompter idea seemed good, however the free ones only allow for short texts and the pay types are expensive and none of the one I checked can save the prompted text to any file format I could easily import into vegas. It may work with a screen recorder though.
-sam