No, I'm specifically talking about animated templates titles. Standard titles are no problem. They are multiple tracks, locked together and if you change duration you only affect one track breaking the animation.

@eaadams

Ah! That can be difficult, depending on the nature of the template. In the case of the one that you selected, the objects on tracks 1 and 3 are mp4 files, which obviously cannot be lengthened by dragging. The object on track 4 is the text, and if you select it and go to Effects, View/Animation, Size/Position, you'll see that there are keyframes on Video Level.

You can start by ungrouping the combined object and then editing them one by one. For the text, drag the lower handle to the right for the length that you want. Move the last 2 Video level keyframes to the right, trying to get them to be about the same distance from the end as before.

I am assuming that you want the title to stay on the screen longer. Drag the png object on track 2 to the right to be the same duration as the text.

Alternative 1 for tracks 1 and 3

Go Stretch mode for the mouse and drag the lower right handles to get the duration to be the same as the text. However, this stretches both start and finish so the opening and closing effects will be slower.

Alternative 2 for tracks 1 and 3

Move the playback marker to about the middle point of the objects, select the object on track 1, right-click, insert still image at the playback marker. This will do just that and move the right part over to the right. Adjust the length of this still image and drag the right hand part of the video so that it ends with the text. You can make the still image duration small to be able to drag the right part of the video back in to the left without overlapping, and the fill the gap by adjusting the length of the still image.

Do the same with the object on track 3.

John CB

@browj2 @eaadams

Hi

(Edit : - Did not see your replies while testing this)

Interesting question that made me have a play with the possibilities.

Dragging the bottom handle is fine with a static title but gets complicated if it is an animated title or an X3D title depending on what timings you want to see on the durations of parts of the animation.

An X3D title just repeats the animation past a certain point shown with a vertical line on the object. A simple (only?) way (unless you have Xara 3D program or VPX) to extend it is to use the object stretch mouse mode. Note that (cleverly) this will not work on a standard title

A standard animated template eg. "Jump In" has keyframes on the size / position and dragging keeps the end part on screen longer, as does using the spin box for title duration in the Title Editor. Alternately you can click the down arrow, adjacent to Size / Position at the left of the KF timeline and choose "combine effects curve with object length", where upon it will extend all parts of the animation and slow it down. It is strange that the standard template duration 4 secs for this animation does not even allow the full zoom to show before it starts fading out!

Thanks, I've learned something.

Peter

@Scenestealer, @browj2, @eaadams

Why not simply export the effect, re-import and stretch to extended duration?

Terry

@eaadams @Scenestealer

The title templates are not all the same. Some have mp4 files some don't. The ones that don't are usually easy to just drag out. I found on some of them that it is best to drag out the right side of the text object and the others follow. Dragging the right side of one of the other objects does not always drag the text object along with it. So, it's important to be able to understand how to break the objects down and to make adjustments.

@terrypin

This would be about the same a my Alternative 1. The effect would slow down by being stretched out. However, there are cases where exporting to mxv and importing the result to replace the original works best.

John CB

how do you know which ones have an mp4 file?