I'm wrapping up a short project and want to put a few simple titles at the back end. In Vegas 3 I tried the "Sonic Foundry Credit Roll" generated media, but wasn't pleased. Usually I'd create a tall .PNG graphic with the titles as I wanted them and animated with Pan/Crop.
In this project and with the move to V4, I've decided to try the credit roll again, especially since I just want single credits to fade in and out. Seems perfect for the "Timed Sequence" effect but I've spent a fair bit of time, and been through the manual and even Spot's V4 Editing Workshop book. Seems there is little on this mode of operation and a search here showed nothing as far as tutorials.
I created a new Generated Media event in an open space on the timeline then dragged it out to 1 minute. Then I typed in my first two credit lines (Header followed by single line) and changed the default fonts/settings to what I need and made sure I was in Timed Sequence. I am using Fast Fade In and Out. Then set a keyframe at 10 seconds and entered the two credit lines.
Previewed. . .and went Huh? Seems the first credit takes a long time to fade in, barely gets there and in a single frame jump I see the next credit. I thought the generator would note the keyframe points on the timeline and figure out how to do the fade in and out. Changing the keyframe position didn't seem to get me any closer to what I want.
I have the feeling that it cannot be as bad as it seems and that there is just some secret that I'm missing. When I switched to the rolling credits and put all in a row that seemed to work OK.
I know I could probably just go back and insert Text Media one at a time, but as long as I was in the area I wanted to see if I couldn't use the tool that seems more specific to my needs.
Any help appreciated.
Wayne
In this project and with the move to V4, I've decided to try the credit roll again, especially since I just want single credits to fade in and out. Seems perfect for the "Timed Sequence" effect but I've spent a fair bit of time, and been through the manual and even Spot's V4 Editing Workshop book. Seems there is little on this mode of operation and a search here showed nothing as far as tutorials.
I created a new Generated Media event in an open space on the timeline then dragged it out to 1 minute. Then I typed in my first two credit lines (Header followed by single line) and changed the default fonts/settings to what I need and made sure I was in Timed Sequence. I am using Fast Fade In and Out. Then set a keyframe at 10 seconds and entered the two credit lines.
Previewed. . .and went Huh? Seems the first credit takes a long time to fade in, barely gets there and in a single frame jump I see the next credit. I thought the generator would note the keyframe points on the timeline and figure out how to do the fade in and out. Changing the keyframe position didn't seem to get me any closer to what I want.
I have the feeling that it cannot be as bad as it seems and that there is just some secret that I'm missing. When I switched to the rolling credits and put all in a row that seemed to work OK.
I know I could probably just go back and insert Text Media one at a time, but as long as I was in the area I wanted to see if I couldn't use the tool that seems more specific to my needs.
Any help appreciated.
Wayne