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USING ADVANCED VIDEO FEATURES CHP. 13
If you want, you can replace the crossfades between images by dragging transitions to the crossfade regions at
a later time. For more information, see Using transition effects on page 268.
Note:
When using photographs or other media that is not the
same frame aspect as your video, you'll see black bars on the
sides or above and below the image. To create a crop
rectangle that matches the project frame aspect, right-click the
image and choose
Match Output Aspect from the shortcut
menu.
Creating titles
Most video projects include titles and credits. There are two ways to add text to your project. You can use the
titling engine (text generator) or you can use an external image-editing program to create titles. For more
information, see Using generated media on page 247.
Creating titles from images
While every software application is slightly different, the general procedure for creating titles with a
transparent background is as follows.
1.
Start your image-editing application.
2.
From the File menu, choose New. Set the dimensions of the new image to be the same as the frame size for
the project. For more information, see Correcting images for DV pixel aspect ratios on page 226. Make the
default canvas (background) color a solid color. The background will be transparent in the final image, so
any solid color works.
3.
Select the Text tool and enter the text for your title.
Note:
Size and position your titles carefully to fit within the
Title Safe Area or the titles may extend beyond the edges of
your television. For more information, see Identifying safe
areas on page 293.
4.
From the File menu, choose Save As.
5.
From the Save as type drop-down list, choose TGA, PNG, PSD or BMP (PNG is recommended). Make
sure that you save the alpha channel information (for TGA and PNG), which is used for transparency.
6.
Enter a name and click Save.
7.
Insert the image in a track just above the one with the video that will be in the background.