title alignment question

FredK wrote on 11/9/2008, 1:12 PM

Is there a way to center the first line of a title, but then make each line after that aligned to the left?

It seems like you can't change the justification of an individual line, it's either all or nothing.

I'm just using the regular text plug-in under generate media.

Thanks.

Comments

richard-amirault wrote on 11/9/2008, 1:34 PM

There are two ways that I know to do this:

First: the easiest way is to Left Justify everything and just add spaces to the left of the first line to move it over to where you want it.

Second: Add a second text box *over* the first (on a higher track) This second box must have a transparent background. Then you can center justify on the top box and left justify on the bottom box.

It's not elegant but it should work.

Yes, Vegas should be able to combine justification .. and things like different color text in the same text box.

ritsmer wrote on 11/9/2008, 1:36 PM

You can do like that using the Credit Roll instead and setting the Effect to Timed Sequence.

The Credit Roll can do different colours as well.

Terry Esslinger wrote on 11/9/2008, 2:10 PM

Yes,
but how do you get outlined text in credit roll?

mickbadal wrote on 11/15/2008, 12:07 PM

Don't have VMS in front of me so I'm guessing here, but I know you can set text to different fonts & sizes within the same text event (by selecting each different line then making the change), so I would think you could set different justifications on different lines within the same text event in a similar way. But if not, then simply create different text events and set justification on each. Not too painful.