Videonics TM-3000 - Superimposing Titles on Video with a Transparent Pattern; Making Titles Come and Go

VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 63
Infinite Duration
You can set a page to “infinite” duration — when it’s played, the page will
remain on the screen until the PLAY key is pressed again. To do this, high-
light the infinity symbol (2).
Scrolland Crawl
The scroll (3)orcrawl (4) in the bottom sub-menu indicate that the titles on
the page should move up the screen in a full-page scroll or across the screen
in a crawl .
• In a scroll, the page of titles will move up, starting at the bottom of the
screen, and continue to scroll off the top, the way credits are generally
done at the end of a movie. The color, font, and other characteristics of
each line will be preserved. Borders will scroll as well.
• In a crawl, the titles turn into a single line of text and move across the
screen from right to left, until they disappear at the left edge of the screen,
the way a news bulletin is displayed over a television show. A space is
inserted between each pair of lines. If two lines have different characteris-
tics, the first line will crawl off the screen before the second one begins its
crawl.
You can make a crawl occur at the top, bottom, or middle of the page,
depending on whether the page is set for top, middle, or bottom vertical
positioning (as described in Chapter 10).
Scrolland CrawlNotes
• When you use scroll or crawl, the transition effects for that page are dis-
abled. You can’t combine fades, wipes, and slides with a scroll or crawl.
• When you use scroll or crawl you are unable to display the time and/or
dateon that same page.
• The speed setting of the Effects In menu is used to set the speed of the
scroll or crawl; the speed and effect in the EFFECTS OUT menu are ig-
nored.
• A scroll is similar to a slide-up except that it scrolls straight through, never
stopping in the middle.
• If a page has more than 110-115 lines (depending on the amount of text in
each line), it may be too long for a vertical scroll. If the memory warning
symbolappears when youattempt to playthe scrolled page,break the page
into two pages or remove some lines.