How to add caption onto video, in area I want, for custom duration?

browj2 wrote on 6/27/2018, 12:21 PM

Yes. All of the parameters are on the Title menu. When you accept the title, you can drag the title box on the screen to where you want.

See the chapter on Titles around page 131 for details - illustrated explanations. If there is something that you don't understand after reading that part and trying it out, come back with your questions.

John CB

Apollo89x wrote on 6/27/2018, 12:31 PM

Thanks, I found a video on youtube which showed how to do it,

So instead you can only choose an option saying 'keep within TV screen', which even when you try to drag the watermark caption text into the bottom right corner, the editor instead jumps that up to being nearly a square inch up and out of the bottom right corner!

Or if you deselect that option, the editor then loses any boundary at all, and so it's then impossible to simply drag n drop (or even just accurately place) the text box in the bottom right corner, as because Magix removes any boundary at all for some reason, you have no way of knowing when the text box is positioned against the base edges of the screen.

johnebaker wrote on 6/27/2018, 1:06 PM

@Apollo89x

As you have already been told MEP is a semi pro video editing program with advanced features - slagging off of the developers is neither appreciated nor warranted.

We appreciate you are new to the program, however, you have to do some groundwork yourself by reading the manual, and watching the tutorials on getting started with MEP to discover what MEP is capable of and learning the interface and location of effects, functions etc.

. . . . an option saying 'keep within TV screen' . . . . you deselect that option, the editor then loses any boundary at all, . . . . as because Magix removes any boundary at all for some reason, you have no way of knowing when the text box is positioned against the base edges of the screen. . . .

See the TV cropping section in the manual

John EB

Forum Moderator

Apollo89x wrote on 6/27/2018, 1:22 PM

Yes I understand that its for the semi-pro/pro-user,

however a huge number of pro users want/need to be able to add text-watermarks into the bottom right of the screen.

But so the editor not even having the function to place the caption box precisely against the boundaries is NOT what is expected from a so-called pro editor, as it makes the software just look amateurish/the developers look semi-incompetent.

I get that you personally love the brand and so refuse to accept that they are missing key features which a huge number of people would want/use regularly,

However with all due respect this isn't your personal forum, its a consumer forum about the product.

And so it IS productive and informative me highlighting all these issues and errors with the product, as now any potential future customers can be informed pre-purchase about these problems with the product.

browj2 wrote on 6/27/2018, 1:39 PM

You can precisely place a text box or any other object exactly wherever you want.

With Plus/Premium, Text box movements can be keyframed, thus the text can be moved off-screen and then fly-in using whatever movements the user wants. You can't keyframe with the basic version.

Normally, the text box is to be kept within the limits of the safe screen area (this is the basic feature for text), and when you turn off the parameter, you can place the text box beyond this, even off-screen. There is nothing to tell you that you have reached the limit of the screen because there is no limit. Since you want precise control, Magix Movie Edit Pro is way ahead of you, go to Effects, View/Animation, Size/Position and with the text box selected, you will see the size of the text box in pixels (Width and Height) and the position (Left and Top) and the zoom factor. Use these to calculate the precise location that you want. Coordinates 0,0 are the upper left, with positive X to the right, Y downwards. Note that Size/position is used for objects to make Picture-in-Picture overlays, size and position them, and move them around.

Thus to get your text box to the bottom right, if your screen is 1920w x 1080h and your text box is 400w x 100h, you place the text box at 1920-400=1520 and 1080-100=980. Just be careful, some viewers may not see the entire text at this location; it depends on their TV.

The Preview Window has a hamburger menu at the upper left. You will see commands and presets to zoom out of the screen area to see beyond it (I don't know if this is in the basic version). With Plus and Premium, one can move the text (or any objects) off of the screen and see where, and then keyframe the text or object in to wherever (including back off of the screen) and however one wants using the various movement effects, including rotation.

And please, last warning, stop with your negative comments about Magix and the developers. You have shown total ignorance of the program and its features yet you continue to denigrate the program and the developers. Just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean that there is no way to do it. Change your attitude to a positive one like simply asking if such and such a thing can be done or how to do something. If not, everyone will simply stop replying to you. Replying takes time and effort which many of us here freely give. No one is paying us to do this.

John CB

johnebaker wrote on 6/27/2018, 2:20 PM

@Apollo89x

. . . . I get that you personally love the brand and so refuse to accept that they are missing key features which a huge number of people would want/use regularly, . . . .

On a personal note - yes I am a fan of Movie Edit Pro and Video Pro X, and with, IMHO, a good reason - of all the software I have used over the past 20 years, such as Adobe Premiere, Final Cut, Sony Vegas Pro (when it was Sony), Pinnacle Studio in it many versions, Serf Movie Plus, and Windows Movie Maker to name but a few, of the ones I have used since 2006, MEP is the one I have always gone back to .

I find MEP, and VPX its big brother, are more versatile and functional then programs costing a great deal more, however as with all video editing software they have their quirks in interface design.

As to the missing features - the ones you have raised and has has already been discussed in previous topics are there - you may be missing some of the additional features etc. because you have the Basic version of the program.

. . . . However with all due respect this isn't your personal forum, its a consumer forum about the product. . . . .

I do not consider this 'my personal forum' - I am passionate about what I do, as are many of the other members here, in trying to help and support other users.

As one of many volunteer Moderators here, there is also a responsibility to ensure the forum is a friendly helpful place where users can ask questions and get meaningful answers and help constructively.

Comments, such as those which denigrate the developers experience or the software are not helpful, and tend to have a negative effect on other users willingness to help.

. . . . And so it IS productive and informative me highlighting all these issues and errors with the product, as now any potential future customers can be informed pre-purchase about these problems with the product. . . . .

As has been previously pointed in other topics, by me and other users, the issues you are having are due to lack of familiarity with the software. I, and the other members who respond to a question, can only guide and inform, the user has the responsibility to do the recommended reading, trying and homework.

HTH

John EB

Apollo89x wrote on 6/27/2018, 2:43 PM

I'm not gonna be rude to you personally mate,

but my views on the software designer's competence level/the flaws of the software remain the same.

I expect even a half-decent editor to have the capability to offer such basic functions within seconds, as standard;

Not required the user to waste their time calculating coordinates, positioning boxes into those coordinates, and then just hoping that it even shows that on all viewers screens.

Windows Movie Maker offers that exact functionality which I detailed, and the capability to do it all simply within 7-10 seconds, so until Magix can compete with that I will just edit & save 2 copies of each video with MM (1 watermarked/1 not), then simply use Magix just for the auto-lighting feature for both, then save both.

Can lock this thread.

wongck wrote on 6/27/2018, 6:45 PM

ovie Maker offers that exact functionality which I detailed, and the capability to do it all simply within 7-10 seconds, so until Magix can compete with that I will just edit & save 2 copies of each video with MM (1 watermarked/1 not), then simply use Magix just for the auto-lighting feature for both, then save both.

Since you are transferring back and forth just for the auto-lighting feature, why not just get this for WMM and be done with....SpiceFX 6 SceneFixer Wizard.

yvon-robert wrote on 6/27/2018, 6:50 PM

Hi,

to understand we must clarify terms like watermark, caption, text, close caption and filigram plus TV safe screen. My definition of terms:

TV safe screen area is a space representing about a maximum 10 to 12% around perimeter. If a screen has 1080 pixel height that means aband of 108 pixels cannot contain no thing. You lcan activate this function in title function.

Watermark : normaly ia alogo or text use on right bottom screen. This identify the video owner or author. Watermark can be place any place on the screen but small size around 100 pixel height.

text : normaly made with a title editor, must be place any place on the screen and safe area.

caption : refer to few text word like a sentense can be place any place on the screen but centrr and bottom screen.

close caption : refer to srt file or sami file with time can be place on the video or otside the video. Burn in the video. Outside the video it need a player.

normaly consumer video program has no close caption function. But the new law in USA oblige to produce video with CC. Automatic CC is generated but is not perfect depending narator between 5% to 20% text must be remake.

the law oblige either a text transcript or Cc for video.

Regards,

YR

Apollo89x wrote on 6/27/2018, 7:10 PM

ovie Maker offers that exact functionality which I detailed, and the capability to do it all simply within 7-10 seconds, so until Magix can compete with that I will just edit & save 2 copies of each video with MM (1 watermarked/1 not), then simply use Magix just for the auto-lighting feature for both, then save both.

Since you are transferring back and forth just for the auto-lighting feature, why not just get this for WMM and be done with.....

Thankyou for this.

I will give it a try tomorrow, and if it works that'll save me a huge amount of time! :)

(As Magix takes me 5-8hours to save each 10min video after the brightness correction).

RogerGunkel wrote on 6/28/2018, 3:31 AM

So far Pal, every single one of the criticisms of the Magix software that you have made, have been totally unfounded as it is capable of doing everything that you are trying to do and much more. If you want to draw artistic pictures, you wouldn't use an etch a sketch, which is what WMM is the equivalent of. As you clearly have a limited knowledge of video editing and haven't used other higher level editing software, then it is pointless trying to use a sophisticated piece of editing software to accomplish what you want. Serious editors need to be able to take control of all the parameters and all higher level software enables you to do that in the same way as Magix does.

You either need to learn how to use serious software or stick with the kids stuff. Your comments based on your own lack of knowledge are frankly laughable and I would be embarassed to broadcast my lack of knowledge to people on a forum, many of whom are very experienced professionals. Because you can fly a paper aeroplane doesn't give you the knowledge to criticise the complex controls of a jumbo jet.

Roger

emmrecs wrote on 6/28/2018, 4:23 AM

@Apollo89x

As has been clearly stated by various users who have tried very hard to assist you in learning how to use MEP, this software is extremely capable but does require the user to at least attempt to master its intricacies and foibles.

I have followed, without previous comment, all of your threads and am dismayed that, despite the clear warning from John EB that it is totally counter-productive to denigrate the developers and the software as, in your opinion, "crap" because it apparently does not instantly do what you expect, you have persisted in the rather offensive tone through several posts.

The most recent post to this thread, from a very experienced user (and valuable member of this forum) who is clearly exasperated by your attitude, is indicative of the effect your posts are having on other users.

As a result, and wanting very much to avoid this thread becoming any kind of slanging match, I am closing this thread.

If you persist in posting to the forum in a manner that causes offense to other users or merely serves to denigrate the software or Magix, your membership of and right to post here will be permanently withdrawn.

Jeff
Forum Moderator