Discovering EMC7 was truly a life changing time for me. I come from a family of avid photographers. A week does not go by that I take 100-300 pics (I have 7 siblings and 20 nieces and nephews) there is always a photo opportunity. With EMC7 I was able to do away with boring photo albums and transform my pics (and mini movies taken with my camera) into fun/memory filled slide shows with transitions, music, comentaries on photos, opening color panel with title/introduction and closing funny credits. Best of all, I get to burn them to dvd's make copies for the family and do premier nights to watch them on our plasma with great lighting. Promlem is, EMC 8 came out and then 9 and I wish I had never upgraded because including text (yes, more steps to make sure I do it in the internal track)has become laborious and frustrating. Try writing a 3 paragraph introduction to the slide show... sentences are by text lines. PLEASE GO BACK TO EMC7 text, way friendlier. any one else run into the same problem? any tricks or suggestions. I love Videowave but this may force me to find an alternate.

I really like the ease of EMC 7.5 for adding text, etc. too. I still do all of my slide shows in EMC 7.5, but for my camcorder movies, EMC 9 really beats EMC 7.5.

I keep both programs on my computer, and you can too. Just don't install Drag to Disc.

Not sure I am on the right track here for what you are suggesting, but In my EMC 9.1 (I'm running in Vista BTW) and in Videowave, I click on the first slide and add a colored slide. Then while still on the same slide, I click on "add text effect" from the left side menu. Once the font screen come up I choose a font and then I can add several paragraphs of text separated by a blank line in between, with no problem.

Once I have added several paragraphs, I clcik on the little red Icon on the upper right and choose to make the text scroll up the screen. From there I change the time for that particular slide so there will be enough time for the entire several paragraphs to scroll up the screen before it gets to the next suceeding slides which I have added photos too.

I agree that EMC 7.5 was very easy for adding text slides, but EMC 9 has some other options that are really nice too. I too had a frustrating time weening myself off 7.5 but after a while I began to like 9.1 with all the different progarms and options it has.

Frank...

There is always the cut and paste option if you have a lot of text.

Never thought of that Steve. Wasn't that a kind of a work around to get more than one line of text for the "MENU" when in MyDVD or earlier versions in DVDbuilder ? If you cut and paste, can you still have a moving text ?? I'll have to try that with the new EMC 9.1 and see if I can still scroll the text.

Frank...

Cut and paste still works, but for some reason V9 does not have word wrap like a word processor. Text just goes off the screen making it difficult to handle. They should add a restriction to TV safe zone or something for text.

When I add a color panel and then add a text effect, I find if I right click in the red-outlined text box there is a wrap text option in the context menu (last item in the list). If I check that, the text block I paste will be tall, not wide, and therefore much easier to work with (doesn't go off the screen sideways).

Hope this might help

Thanks karri - as you see, us gurus don't know everything. Looks like that would be a default. Tuck that info away when someone else asks.

Good find Karri !! Thanks for posting that information. That will most likely solve problems for others that want to wrap the text still or scroll.

Frank...

Hi ggrussell, Thanks for the reply If I ever get to know half as much as you gurus here I will be very happy!

It made sense to me that text wrap is not the default, from my perspective, because a lot of movies and tv programs don't usually have vertically scrolling prose. Star Wars comes to mind, but not too many other than that. I guess the Roxio designers thought that things like credits, that do scroll vertically, the user wouldn't want to wrap, so they made it an option instead of the default. (I am new to all this so that is just my thought.)

I have learned a lot from your posts and thank you for taking the time to help folks like me







Thanks Frank I'm glad if I can help a little. I have learned so much from you gurus by reading the board before attempting things in EMC, it really made the learning curve much easier and got me up and running much more quickly than had I been on my own with it.