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I am trying to put titles on a solid background. In the first scene title 1 fades in and stays. In Scene 2, title 1 stays up full time, and title 2 fades in and joins it. Scene 3 first 2 titles are up full time, joined by title 3, which fades in and stays. This goes on to 5 titles faded in. Have tried adding boxes, and using the scene button, etc. Don't exactly know how to pull this off. Which title effect, etc? Thanks!

I'd say ticker. your font size will have to be small enough so you will have 5 lines on one scene. I have never done that but it sounds good. Bob...

Hello Jim,

No title effect or any effect needed.....just a way to control the timing of each new title. That's just a basic splitting of the scene into the lengths (time) that you need so that the audience can read each new title and understand it's meaning. This is just the basic use of the titler. The title can go the complete length of a scene if you want. It's much easier to split the scene into the times that you need....than to try to time the title appearances over the full length of a scene.

This is a case where you can make the title sequence and split it into the lengths that you want each title to appear. Create the full length scene that you want the first title to be in and add the first title to it full length. Make of scene of it. Then split out the next length and add the second title to it and fully to the end. Make a scene of it. Then split out the next length and add the third title all the way to the end......then the next etc. until you have all the titles added. Your splitting will solve the problem of timing the titles and they'll each pop up when you want them to.

You can even be brave and make each new title a different color for the time duration of that split to emphasize the point you are making, then have that title go back to the beginning color during the next split and the new title in it will be the new color during that time period. This will draw the audience's attention to the new title each time.

Good luck and let us know how it works out for you.

Jim
My friend, Jim M’s advice is spot on, but if you have never done this before it can be a little difficult to visualise or explain in words, so the following is expanding upon what Jim is saying, by way of an example.

Lets assume your total scene is 25s long, with the first title fading in over one second at the start of the scene. Then after 5s the second title fades in after 10s, etc.

1. With your 25s scene in the story board, add your first title, then click the “Scene” button, which will create the title effect and place the 25s clip in your scene bin.
2. Use the “Split” function to split this clip into two parts, the first 5s and the remaining 20s. To make things easy later, rename the first section (Clip 1).
3. “Add” the remaining 20s clip to the story board and add your second title and again make a “Scene” for the scene bin.
4. Repeat step 2, but this time the remaining clip will be just 15s long. Rename this 5s split as (Clip 2).
5. Repeat the steps again, until you have 5, 5s clips, named (Clip 1), (Clip 2), to clip (Clip 5). Obviously you will not need to split the last step, just rename it (clip 5).
6. When placed in the story board in clip 1 to clip 5 order, you will have the 25s scene with the titles fading in at 5s intervals, all fading out together at the end over a 1s period.

If after adding them to the story board, you select the first clip, click “fx Effects” – “Scene” – “Range” “OK” and scroll to the full 25s, - “OK”, this will make a single scene of the complete sequence.

If you don’t want them fading out at the end, make the initial scene 26s long and after making a scene of the whole thing, which will of course be 26s long, trim off the last 1s.

As Jim says, let us know how you get on.

Incidentally, feed back is not for kudos, it just lets everyone know if it worked for you, so others can learn later on. Also when giving instructions, what may seem obvious to us can sometimes not be so obvious to the reader.

Another incidentally or tip, the renaming of clips is not essential, but in cases of multiple effects can be very useful and eventually time saving. I learnt this to my cost at the first MGT at Moline. When demoing a black and white fade to colour scene, because I did not rename, I kept picking up the wrong clip from scene bin to story board and of course the demo would not work. Extremely embarrassing in front of an audience of 120 people.

Ian