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Chienworks wrote on 7/8/2009, 4:04 AM
Have you added any keyframes to the text event? If so, changing the font only affects from the current keyframe to the next. You'll have to change the font at every keyframe.
Action wrote on 7/9/2009, 3:52 PM
No, I just want to select a new font and have it stay there for the text,
maybe just for one line, then change the font for the next line of text...
and so on.

What are keyframes and where do I learn 'bout 'em?

Cheers.
MSmart wrote on 7/9/2009, 7:40 PM
Unfortunately the Sony Text event FX is quite primitive. But to get what you want, type all of your text, then go back and select the characters you want to be a certain font, change it then select the next set and change it to the next desired font and so on. Cumbersome but doable.

Be careful not to change the font with no characters selected or all will be changed.

Maybe VMS v10 will give us ProType Titler.
Eugenia wrote on 7/9/2009, 11:08 PM
>Unfortunately the Sony Text event FX is quite primitive.

Hehehe... everything is a point of view actually.

A few days ago I wrote a review of the Linux KDEnLive video editor which its text editing abilities are _really_ primitive. We are talking about the ability to just select a font and place it on the screen. Nothing more than that really. Its developers were in fact contend with that functionality. Compared to all the things Vegas can do with text editing, _theirs_ is really primitive.

Personally, I have access to the ProTitler version of text editing on vegas, and I don't really use it. I don't need more than what the current text editor can do.