Re: MAGIX - MEP Titles


"Terry Pinnell" <terrypin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ken,

More trials & tribulations with titles!

I get some baffling behaviour when I include differently coloured text
in a title. For example, this one * has a yellow header yellow and
white body, but the header comes out grey on the monitor, not yellow!

[* I was going to include a screenshot here, but of course the monitor
can't be captured, so I'll have to leave it to your imagination! It's
just an Arial 12 yellow top line, then a blank line, then several
comment lines in Arial 10 white.]


(What are you using for the text effect?)

So you have the yellow Arial 12 top line (your "header"
I guess) in track 3? And the several white Arial 10
comment lines (the body?) in track 4?


Yet if I change that yellow to light blue, for example, it correctly
gets displayed as light blue. Why such a bizarre result? What's wrong
with yellow, orange, light green, etc, all of which display as grey in
this title? Actually it's as if there's a 'mask' superimposed over the
chosen colour. But only in *some* cases...

And other apparently identically constructed titles earlier in the
timeline show the correct yellow headers. Presumably there is
something different about this one, but I'm darned if I can find it!

BTW, if place the cursor in the empty line between header and the
first white line below, the colour box in some cases shows it as
*blue*, which seems very odd. And if I change just one character (say
a blank) in that line to say red, all the characters below appear as
red too, even though they were not first selected.


I don't follow what you are doing. A normal text object has
only one font and color, there is a special text effect that lets
you set colors for each letter, but that is not the norm.


Turning to the topic of templates. If I save this 2-colour combination
as a template, will it capture the separate style elements? Sometimes
it seems to apply just one style to all the lines.

And what effect does the choice of 'background colour' (apparently
restricted to only black or white) have when the title is overlayed on
another clip?


The choice of black or white for the background of the
text effects is for Luma keying (aka Alpha keying, in some
half right descriptions) as opposed to Croma keying. In
this very controlled situation the threshold to apply the
transparency and the degree of the transparency to be
applied, can be such that only the text and it's applied
effects will appear, the background will be totally
transparent and can be treated as not there at all.
Basically, if you want to use pure Black or White for
your text, then you will need to use the opposite color
for the background. If you use any other colors for
the text it won't matter.

In short, I'd love to learn 'the rules' that apply in the title
editor, as the logic eludes me at the moment.

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK




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