Creating and Editing Title Objects

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Now that you're comfortable with text, it's time to describe how to add and edit title objects: ellipses and rectangles that you can use in your titles. Title objects serve quite nicely as text backgrounds or as stand-alone design components. You can assign Looks to Studio's title objects, and customize, skew, resize and reposition them at will, using the same techniques that you learned for text objects.

Let's study objects by creating a background for a text title. If you like consistent fonts and placement in your titles, and I definitely do, you're almost always going to need a solid background. Otherwise, at some point in the project, the background video will conflict with the title text, making it hard to read.

I'll show you how I like to create my backgrounds; you're obviously free to create your own look. In most instances, however, you will want to use a transparent box, since it's less obtrusive than a solid color.

To create a rectangle

1.

From the Title editor, click the Rectangle icon in the Object toolbox (Figure 10.65).

Figure 10.65. Studio lets you draw ellipses and rectangles in your titles. Click the desire shape and drag the desired area.


2.

In the Design window, drag the pointer to draw the object (Figure 10.65).

If you're creating a background for text, draw the object about the same height and width as the text.

Tip

  • Studio applies whatever style you have selected when you draw the object. That's why the image in Figure 10.65 has both a shadow and black edge, neither of which I want in my text background.


To create a title background

1.

In the Custom panel, drag both Edge sliders all the way to the left (Figure 10.66).

Figure 10.66. To create the ideal text background, lose the edges and shadows and make the rectangle about 50% transparent with the opacity slider.


Studio removes the edge around the box.

2.

Drag both Shadow sliders to the left.

Studio removes the shadow from the box.

3.

Click the Change Face icon.

Studio opens the Color window.

4.

Drag the Opacity control to approximately 50%.

5.

Click OK to close the Color window.

6.

Drag the box behind the title text (Figure 10.67).

Figure 10.67. This title will be legible irrespective of the content in the background video.


7.

Resize and reposition the text box to achieve the desired look and fit around the text.

Tip

  • If the new object appears over the text title (instead of behind), you can adjust this with the layer controls discussed in "To Change Object Layers," later in this chapter.


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    Pinnacle Studio 10 for Windows. Visual QuickStart Guide
    Pinnacle Studio 10 for Windows Visual Quickstart Guide
    ISBN: B001E08S6S
    EAN: N/A
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 189

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