Script to change text size

johnmeyer wrote on 2/12/2004, 8:19 AM
I don't think this can be done, but I thought I'd ask. I have overlaid the scores over the top of a basketball video. Looks OK on my monitor, but on a regular TV set, the text is too small. I therefore need to make the text larger on about 100 separate text events.

Is there a script -- or some other method -- that would let me do this?

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johnmeyer wrote on 2/12/2004, 8:36 AM
I had to get the video finished, and I know it will take a little time for people to respond, so I just went ahead and changed every text box manually.

Brrrr ... that was brutal.

Sony

If there isn't a way to do this easily, then I vote for this as something for the next release. Sony, at least let me define text presets that DON'T include the text itself, or a way to cut/paste attributes that don't include the text. The text should not be considered an "attribute," anymore than I would consider the actual video pixels of an event an attribute.
roger_74 wrote on 2/12/2004, 9:57 AM
Perhaps you could have enlarged the text with Track Motion?
johnmeyer wrote on 2/12/2004, 11:31 AM
Perhaps you could have enlarged the text with Track Motion?

Interesting idea. However, does this enlargement happen before or after the text is created? For instance, if I made the text ten times larger (not that I'm going to go that far), would it enlarge a 720x480 image, and then make the result all pixelated?
jetdv wrote on 2/12/2004, 11:44 AM
It would happen after. You would need the font at the LARGEST size before resizing with Track Motion or Pan/Crop.

There is currently no way to script the font size of which I am aware. You can pick presets but not individual attributes. Of course a preset would also change the text.
johnmeyer wrote on 2/12/2004, 12:14 PM
You would need the font at the LARGEST size before resizing with Track Motion or Pan/Crop.

I suspected that was the case. Since I need to make it bigger, this idea won't work.

Of course a preset would also change the text.

Yup, that's what I figured. Hope Sony changes the way presets work with text. I can't tell you many times I've cursed when I use a text preset and have to delete the text that is already there (yes, I know, delete the text before saving the preset -- but that means you have to delete the text, save the preset, and then restore the text, assuming that you're creating the preset while working on an actual title).

Actually, what I REALLY hope is that Sony scrap the whole text generator, which is one of the weakest points of this marvelous product, and incorporates a "real" title generator.