Increase length or display of ALL titles

FF22 wrote on 11/7/2023, 12:39 AM

I may have goofed (not unheard of). In viewing my finished result I noticed that my titles do not display for a sufficient period of time. So I was wondering if there is a way to increase ALL titles at one time with some magic keystroke(s) or process? Or is this an entirely manual process of stretching each one individually?

Thanks in advance.

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johnebaker wrote on 11/7/2023, 3:32 AM

@FF22

. . . . may have goofed (not unheard of). In viewing my finished result I noticed that my titles do not display for a sufficient period of time. . . . . .

I do not think so, and I too find the default length is too short.

Unfortunately there is no way to change all at the same time (at least in my experience and testing).

When there are multiple titles in the project, my work flow is to create the first title, set the font, size, colour, etc, and adjust to the desired length. For subsequent titles I use Alt + Drag method to duplicate the first title and position where needed and then edit the text - rinse and repeat for further titles.

If you use the same text template for multiple projects once you have created the first title and set the font, size colour, etc and length you can save it as a custom template - right click for the option.

HTH

John EB
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browj2 wrote on 11/7/2023, 5:53 AM

@FF22 @johnebaker

Hi,

Actually, there is a way and I presume that it works with older versions of the program. I only tested in MMS2024 and VPX15.

With the title editor open, select the titles that you want to change. In the title editor, to the right of Animation is a box with the duration. Set the duration that you want, Enter, done. All selected titles will change.

John CB

johnebaker wrote on 11/7/2023, 7:23 AM

@browj2

Hi John

Good catch - I never use the unlabelled box for setting the duration due to my workflow as I described above.

John EB

FF22 wrote on 11/7/2023, 10:24 AM

@browj2 @johnebaker

Thanks both for the quick reply and obviously for the answer that solves the problem. Time is money except when you are retired. In which case there's less of it, time, left! 😀 I guess I should have exported off a portion of the video and watched it on the TV to get sense of how TITLES worked. I did tweak colors when the title would disappear against the backdrop.

AGAIN, TERRIFIC. I and my butt thank you.