This may fall into the "so simple I missed it" category, but I don't think so. All I wanted to do was add a block of text that would type on, wipe on, anything on, where the block is smaller than the frame size so it appears nicely beside a graphic. Simple, right? It should look clean like a page from a slick magazine.
The problem is that neither Sony's titlers nor New Blue can give me WORD WRAP in VP11. I wasted close to 2 hours with these plugins and generators to simultaneously control justification, font size, hard returns, and on-screen positions to try to get a block of text to appear nicely. New Blue was promising, but it got fed up with me and crashed too many times (and selecting and moving text in the NB interface is...don't get me started), and Sony's offerings fared no better, although they didn't crash Vegas.
Truly exasperated, I exported a frame grab, dropped it into Photoshop, added my block of text layer (with WORD WRAP by default) using the frame grab to line up the text block, hid the frame grab layer, saved the PSD and dropped it on the Vegas timeline. Edits? No problem. Do them in PS, save, and they update automatically in Vegas. Took me, oh, 10 minutes.
Criminy!! Did I miss something so simple WITHIN Vegas that I had to use Photoshop to add a stinkin' block of beautiful, nicely justified text? Please tell me where I went wrong.
Also, I'm really short on sleep and patience, so sorry for the drama. And my beef is not about creating and animating short titles, which any of the options above do well for me.
-Steve
The problem is that neither Sony's titlers nor New Blue can give me WORD WRAP in VP11. I wasted close to 2 hours with these plugins and generators to simultaneously control justification, font size, hard returns, and on-screen positions to try to get a block of text to appear nicely. New Blue was promising, but it got fed up with me and crashed too many times (and selecting and moving text in the NB interface is...don't get me started), and Sony's offerings fared no better, although they didn't crash Vegas.
Truly exasperated, I exported a frame grab, dropped it into Photoshop, added my block of text layer (with WORD WRAP by default) using the frame grab to line up the text block, hid the frame grab layer, saved the PSD and dropped it on the Vegas timeline. Edits? No problem. Do them in PS, save, and they update automatically in Vegas. Took me, oh, 10 minutes.
Criminy!! Did I miss something so simple WITHIN Vegas that I had to use Photoshop to add a stinkin' block of beautiful, nicely justified text? Please tell me where I went wrong.
Also, I'm really short on sleep and patience, so sorry for the drama. And my beef is not about creating and animating short titles, which any of the options above do well for me.
-Steve