Attach text to part of the video

faisal_ahmed786 wrote on 5/16/2016, 5:51 PM

Hi.

I have a panning shot of the sea and would like to attach a title to one of islands in the video.

I am doing this using the 'attach to picture position in video' feature. This works to an extent however I can only get it to work if the title is on screen from the start of the shot.

Example below. Can this be achived without it appearing suddenly?

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Comments

browj2 wrote on 5/17/2016, 9:43 PM

Hi,

I'm not sure what your problem is. The text in the video fades in and is not on screen at the start of the clip, so it looks to me like you have what you want, except the pan is far too fast, but that's a different problem.

All you do is put a cut (shortcut T) in the video where you want the text to start and another where you want it to end. Enter the text, sized and placed where you want it to start. Stretch or reduce the length of the text object to cover the extent of the video between cuts. Then use the command to attach the object to the video. Finally, fade in and fade out the text. Is that what you wanted to know?

I rarely use this feature; I prefer to make my own keyframes, meaning less keyframes and smoother.

faisal_ahmed786 wrote on 5/20/2016, 6:09 PM

Hi,

I'm not sure what your problem is. The text in the video fades in and is not on screen at the start of the clip, so it looks to me like you have what you want, except the pan is far too fast, but that's a different problem.

All you do is put a cut (shortcut T) in the video where you want the text to start and another where you want it to end. Enter the text, sized and placed where you want it to start. Stretch or reduce the length of the text object to cover the extent of the video between cuts. Then use the command to attach the object to the video. Finally, fade in and fade out the text. Is that what you wanted to know?

I rarely use this feature; I prefer to make my own keyframes, meaning less keyframes and smoother.

Thanks for your reply. I would like the text fixed to the island from the start rather than appearing half way. The problem is the fix feature does not attach it to the correct place unless the island is in view from the start. Maybe I will make my own keyframes.