Scrolling Title - refresh me, please

DelCallo wrote on 4/26/2007, 3:57 AM

I used to know how to do it, but it has been a while. I would like to import a sizeable block of text from Word and set it up to scroll by slowly. I managed the credits for my project using the scrolling media plugin - but that's a line by line affair.

Right now, I just plucked a paragraph at a time and set it statically on the timeline - that will do if I can't figure out how to import from Word.

I did a search and found a thread telling me that Word import is possible, and there is a one-line blurb in the help file - it, too, just tells you that you can import. No detail on how it is actually done.

Right now, if I copy and paste, I get the text in one long line. Obviously that doesn't work.

I am certain this must have been discussed many times on the forum, so, if you can save me some time by pointing me to an appropriate thread, I would be grateful.

Thanks.

Del

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jetdv wrote on 4/26/2007, 6:22 AM

Make sure the text is ONE long line. Go to the "Positioning" tab. Set the first keyframe so the text is off the right edge of the screen. Set a second keyframe at the end of the timeline so the text is off the left edge of the screen (manually change the "X" value - make sure the 'Y" value stays the same). Then it will scroll right to left.

AlanC wrote on 4/26/2007, 6:44 AM

Can you clarify what you are trying to do.

Are you trying to paste a Word document into the Credit Roll with line breaks or do you want to scroll a long line of text from a Word document across the screen?

johnmeyer wrote on 4/26/2007, 9:30 AM

If you are using the credit roll (found in Media Generators) you can copy from Word and paste (although the "secret" is that you have to use the Ins insert key on your keyboard to paste, rather than the usual Ctrl-V keyboard shortcut).

This may help:

Credit roll

If you instead want to use the Vegas text generator and keyframe that as jetdv suggests, be aware that there is a nasty performance surprise if you use the shadow effect. This is described in the following post, along with a workaround:

Scrolling issue

DelCallo wrote on 4/28/2007, 2:34 AM

Thanks, all. I was, apparently, not clear in my initial post. What I am hoping to do is to have several paragraphs scroll (or should I say roll) from bottom to top slowly enough that anyone interested in further detail on the project could read the message provided.

I do not want to scroll horizontally across the screen.

I used to give up and use Pinnacle Studio for this work, but, somehow, I ended up with a version (from several that I own) for which I have to buy something to enable scrolling - that's for the birds, I already paid for it once - ain't payin' for it ag'in.

I used to just do it in studio, then, render and paste the result into the Vegas timeline.

If I can really create the think in word and paste that into some Vegas plugin, that would rid me once and for all of all things Pinnacle.

So, in addition to being rusty at using the Vegas text generator, I'm a little rusy at posting clear questions, as well.

Additional advice most appreciated.

Thanks!

Del

johnmeyer wrote on 4/28/2007, 8:38 AM

Well, to repeat what I said earlier, you don't use the normal Vegas text generator. Instead, there is a separate Credit Roll generator in Vegas which is designed specifically to scroll credits top to bottom. To put text into that, you take the text from your word document and paste it into the scroll generator. The paste operation is done with the INS key instead of the usual Windows Ctrl-V.

It is possible that the line endings may not be correct. If this is the case, the simplest thing will probably be to adjust the margins in your word processor to make the column narrower prior to copy/paste.

nolonemo wrote on 4/28/2007, 8:44 AM

Just to add, if you want 2-column credits, put a tab between the text in Word, when the text is pasted, Vegas splits into columns at the tab. You can mix single column and double column in a single document.