Media Generated Animated Title - How to Freeze?

Jim Adler wrote on 10/1/2014, 2:56 PM
I am new to Movie Studio Platinum 13 Suite. I have created an animated title using the one of the Titles & Test plugins ("Fly In"). The animation works fine, but once it occurs, the words hold for only a blink of the eye, then disappers. Is there anyway to adjust the length of time the words hold at the end of the animation for just a few seconds more, then disappear? I cannot find a motion time to set in the media generator edit panel.

Thank you.

Jim

Comments

vkmast wrote on 10/2/2014, 6:38 AM
Jim,
not exactly a freeze, but you could split the text event towards the end and time-stretch i.e. ctrl+drag the right edge of the latter part (up to 4x).
From a VPro 11 webinar:" Q. Are there any settings in the new Text & Titles plug-in that extend or shorten the animations?"
D7K wrote on 10/2/2014, 10:17 AM
manually moveto where you want the animation to stop, save picture to file, put in a new text line above, insert your picture above the animation, work around that might do what you want.
Jim Adler wrote on 10/4/2014, 9:04 AM
All,

Thanks for the tips. I did use the screen grab feature and timed it so it would sync. It was a little tricky because where I wanted to briefly freeze it was followed by the text actually moving elsewhere on the canvas. Anyway, with your suggestions I was able to get to where I wanted to be.

Many thanks!
UKharrie wrote on 10/4/2014, 6:52 PM
Something that Sony might consider is a "Hold-Text" option, because some folk will have difficulty following a moving text. If you make it larger then it appears to move faster and may fly Off-Screen. If you make it smaller the text is more difficult to read. ( by which I mean "decipher"
VEGASNeal1 wrote on 10/7/2014, 10:29 AM
One approach that can be used, would be to use text without animation, then apply your own keyframe events for text location. This way you have complete control over how the text moves.
vkmast wrote on 10/7/2014, 11:38 AM
As gret127 suggests, you could indeed use the Titles & Text Default preset (or Legacy Text) and animate text with keyframes. And you can "hold text" there as well. A bit more work though of course.