Titles: Background color and placement

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I'm trying to create some subtitles on a clipping, and I'm running into two
problems:

1. When I go into the "Change Text Font and Color" screen, the background
color box is inactive. (The text color box works fine.) This is
particularly strange as the same problem occurs on both my desktop, as well
as on my laptop. Am I just missing something simple?

2. When selecting the "Subtitle" text animation option, is there any way to
force the text to drop even lower on the screen?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Seth
 
Titles work in two modes. As nomal video clip and as an overlay. First is
achived by putting the title in the Video track.
Change to the timeline view (ctrl-T) and locate your title. This can be drag
to and from to the Title Overlay track at the bottom of the timeline.
Background color is valid titles when they are in the Video Track only..

Also see the "Lower Subtitle" custom title:
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=57075
 
Rehan,

Thanks so much for your reply. I'm a little confused though.

On the first issue, if I have a title in the title overlay track, are you
suggesting that I can simply drag it onto the video track? When I've tried
to do so, it "inserts" a text-only piece into the video timeline and "pushes"
the existing video track to the right. So, I guess I'm not understanding how
to get a title from the overlay track onto the video track.

On the lowering of the subtitles issue, the xml chunk displayed on that
website appears to be for the "Fly in, Fly out" animation. Does it need to be
changed to work with "Subtitle"?

Thanks,

Seth
 
On the first issue, if I have a title in the title overlay track, are you
suggesting that I can simply drag it onto the video track? When I've
tried
to do so, it "inserts" a text-only piece into the video timeline and
"pushes"
the existing video track to the right.
Click to expand...

Yes this is right. It is supposed to work that way. How else do you want to
behave?

When the title is in the Overlay track there is no background so you cannot
set its background color. Even if you were able to set it it wont be used
anyway so whats the point.

The link I gave you for the lower subtitle belongs to a site where you can
"search" the term "lower subtitle". It will eventually lead you to the XML
you want.
 
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