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Hey Everyone!

I said I would be back with Q's about lower thirds again and here I am.

My client wants about 7 lower thirds to run througout the 3 min. video, (very irritating this client).

Each lower third has some marketing phrase on it (info about her and her company), and each is different.

So, I am trying to make fading in and out pages with lower thirds, which is no big deal... EXCEPT....

I do not know how to space them. I have tried making multiple PAGES, each page with a lower third, to run 5 sec., then I use range, trim, postion, but no matter what I do, they run back to back with out any space between them.

I also tried it using multiple consectutive BOXES, but again, it does not separate the lower thirds, they run back to back

The result I am trying to get is for a fade in lower third to appear for 5 sec. , then about 10 sec. later, another lower thirds fades in for 5 second, etc. that is the pattern I am trying to get.

I could make a scene for each lower third and keep building that way, but isn't there a way to not have to do that?

Many thanks,

Kim Wiliamson

Hi Kim,
despite there may be some other solutions I would do it this way.
Make a scene of the whole storyboard without lower thirds.
Then split up newly so you isolate those scenes which should have the lower thirds
so there are spaces between the different lower third segments.
Add all splits to storyboard and add your lower thirds to the segments where they
belong to.
Maybe some help?

Kim
I fully agree with Hans, making a scene, splitting and lower third each segment as appropriate, is exactly how I would tackle this. If for no other reason you had at some later time to go back to change a lower third, each being separate makes this soooo much easier.

As a rule of thumb, I tend to use this method with most of my effects, just working on the section I require is less complicated and easy to amend.

Ian

Hans and Ian,

thank you so much. yes, this is a good general process for adding effects, to isolate them and then I only have to work on that one short clip.

Once again, Great advice!

Kindest Regards,Kim