Text credit roll

[gord]

When I try to add a scrolling credit, I paste in the text I wish to use. It seems there is a text length limit that when exceeded, causes creator to abort. What are the rules and limitations regarding adding text scrolls.

[sknis]

When I try to add a scrolling credit, I paste in the text I wish to use. It seems there is a text length limit that when exceeded, causes creator to abort. What are the rules and limitations regarding adding text scrolls.

 

It should not; I remember that someone had tried it and was able to paste a lot of text via copy and paste -- much more than you would ever want to read in this type of situation. Are you adding the text to the internal text of a color panel? Is the panel duration long enough? Are you adding the text to a main track? Could it be running into another text on the main track? Are you using VideoWave or MyDVD? If you have V8, do you have the Suite or the Deluxe Suite? More information please.

[gord]

It should not; I remember that someone had tried it and was able to paste a lot of text via copy and paste -- much more than you would ever want to read in this type of situation. Are you adding the text to the internal text of a color panel? Is the panel duration long enough? Are you adding the text to a main track? Could it be running into another text on the main track? Are you using VideoWave or MyDVD? If you have V8, do you have the Suite or the Deluxe Suite? More information please.

 

Thanks for the interest. I am running Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 and editing the movie with MyDVD. This also happens when I use version 7 of creator suite. How much is a 'lot' of text. Also, when I paste text, it loses all line feeds and wraps everything together. When I insert line feeds (carriage returns or 'enters') I eventually get to the point it aborts. There is lots of play time left for the scroll to finish as well. Hope this helps clarify.

[james_hardin]

Depends on what program you are Pasting from!

 

There are actually 2 separate invisible characters involved. ASCII(10) is a linefeed and merely takes you down one line. ASCII(13) is a carriage return and moves you to the leftmost position. But in strict programming rules, it will not invoke a linefeed.

 

If you use NotePad it will insert both characters. If you are using any word processor, it will only use one and handle the other internally.

 

This only addresses your Paste issue with loss of Linefeeds.

 

sknis will address the others, but you really did not answer all of his questions! If you won't supply the info, we cannot be of much help.

[james_hardin]

Notepad!

 

WordPad is still a word processor.

[gord]

Thanks for the suggestion. I saved my word file as a .txt and opened it with workpad, copied and pasted to Roxio with the same effect. All text wrapped with no breaks so I may need more coaching on the process.

 

More information:

 

Are you adding the text to the internal text of a color panel? I use the "Add Text Effect", "Basic Credits", Add to Production options

 

Is the panel duration long enough? Yes. It is much longer than the play time.

 

Are you adding the text to a main track? I use the Text 1 option checked on the Show/Hide Tracks panel

 

Could it be running into another text on the main track? No--just one entry

 

Are you using VideoWave or MyDVD? MyDVD

 

If you have V8, do you have the Suite or the Deluxe Suite? V8 Suite.

 

Thanks again.

 

 

Depends on what program you are Pasting from!

 

There are actually 2 separate invisible characters involved. ASCII(10) is a linefeed and merely takes you down one line. ASCII(13) is a carriage return and moves you to the leftmost position. But in strict programming rules, it will not invoke a linefeed.

 

If you use NotePad it will insert both characters. If you are using any word processor, it will only use one and handle the other internally.

 

This only addresses your Paste issue with loss of Linefeeds.

 

sknis will address the others, but you really did not answer all of his questions! If you won't supply the info, we cannot be of much help.