ProTitler How?

Derm wrote on 2/2/2008, 3:14 AM
The PT continues to baffle me. I want to put in three words, lets say,
"My Name Is". I enter the text, fine. Now I want to add an effect from the Collections, I drag and drop one of the styles onto the timeline below. I now have my text and "The Brown Fox" in the preview window. I want my text to do what the brown fox is doing, so if I remove my text and change "the brown fox" to my text I will have what I want. The trouble is I can see both texts in the preview window but only my text in the PT window. Its got to be simpler than this.

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Yarin VooDoo wrote on 2/2/2008, 3:22 AM
Ciao,

you have first to drag'n'drop a collection preset then modify the text, you can't apply a colletion preset on other text.

Ciao
Grazie wrote on 2/2/2008, 3:26 AM
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=573801&Replies=14Add a Collection THEN edit the text.[/link]

For my money? Should be the other way around. But that's me.

Bouncing, springing, leaping things are FXs-things. I Created an FX and I NOW want to apply this to some text. Hey guys, AINT this what I does when I add Gaussian Blur? I don't get the words "Gaussian Blur" instead of my Event Video? Think about THAT for a second?!??

And here is another soul who thinks the same.

We WILL change the World! We WILL!!
Derm wrote on 2/2/2008, 3:44 AM
Thanks for the input guys, but unless I'm doing something stupid this seems unnecessarily difficult. Having gone eith Yarin's method I have to do an awful lot of resizing and shifting windows just to find the text that I want to edit ( I'm using a 28' screen) and when I do find it and enter the text it does not behave in the sam way as the example text.
Kennymusicman wrote on 2/2/2008, 4:45 AM
The Protitler is a little convoluted, yes. But it's also very powerful.

Consider the collections to be "templates" - nothing more.

Therefore, use a template, double click the text, and change the wordage - and you have your text followng the template, but with your own words.

If you want to do your own, it's not too hard once you have figured out a couple of things.
1) toggle automation
2) child
3) oscillators


Granted, it would be nice to start with your own text, and apply a trick from the template afterwards (especially options such as right-click & apply transform movements or sim)
Derm wrote on 2/2/2008, 5:00 AM
Hi,
Going that way I still have the major problem of being unable to locate the text for further editing (moving resizing) in the PT window.
After messing around for a while with diferent window zooms and resizes I might find the text. Also having "Sample Text" constantly appearing is a nuisance. There is nothing intuitive about the way this functions.
Kennymusicman wrote on 2/2/2008, 5:08 AM
PTiler can handle several text bodies at once - there is a possibility that you have multiple text elements ? Your first sample text, and then the quick brown fox one you changed - with all the cascade and other info at the bottom - there is a good chance the othertext track has been moved out of sight?

*Useyour mouse wheel in the black preview to zoom, it may help you find something off screen*

*Move your timeline under the preview screen - it may be something hs gone transparent and thus out of sight*

Moving and resizing is easy once you have the text selected (you don't need to be in editing mode)

Hope that helps a bit
Grazie wrote on 2/2/2008, 5:31 AM
Consider the collections to be "templates" - nothing more.

OK . . . . Boris Graffiti has motion templates?

If I type:

This Text Moves Left

I can apply a motion/animated template, move on and develop my ideas and thoughts even further.

And yes, of course, having DONE a complex Text Event, being able to recall it from within PTT is a boon. But how different is this from just copying an EVNT that has it already? It is this subtle difference that I am pursuing. If I am AT the PTT workspace I want to have the templates that will affect WHAT I am doing at that time.

Still holding out . .. still holding the faith.