Well, I've played around with the VV text generator plugin,
and, it's not impossible to use once you get used to it,
but, the flexibility the program offers to use your own
titling ap obviously invites experimentation with outside
sources in this area.

I hate to keep injecting Pinnacle products into these
discussions, but, to me, their Titledieko is second to
none. For full screen titles, complete with colored
backgrounds, etc, I create the title in Pinnacle's
StudioDV, render it as an avi, then import it into VV. VV
can handle it as it does any avi. You can fade it,
whatever. As for overlays, if I intend to make final
render from VV, I do those within VV. Otherwise, I render
first in VV, then import the resulting avi onto the
StudioDV timeline, add overlays and anyother misc final
touches, then render and output to tape from StudioDV.

When you make a title overlay from within SDV, the program
presents a still video frame over which you type your
title, can select all or any part of it for repositioning
or alteration . . . very easy to predict where your title
will fall with respect to the video (don't want the title
to get lost on the villain's white shirt, just reposition
it a tad, voila!).

I've found SDV no match for VV in the editing area, but, it
is superior (especially at it's going (falling) price) in
output to tape and in making titles, and will handle VV-
rendered avi's nicely.

Hope this helps.

Caruso