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Title Creep
ynotfish
Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Online
[Post New] Mar 10, 2013 20:39
Even though this will probably end up in the "Who Cares?" basket along with another thread I posted http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/24772.page I'm reporting it anyway.

In tutorial making, I use lots of tiles. I typically format one then copy, paste & modify. Often the titles need to fit on a text bar (lower third), so placement matters!

Every time I modify a title (change the words) then re-centre it, the rotten little thing shifts down the screen fractionally... then I have to re-align it to the bottom (or wherever it was before in the text bar). OK - I know that only requires an extra click or two... but multiply that by the many thousands of titles I've made in PD11.

The attached screen capture shows the problem, though the shift might be difficult to see.

Realigning a title to horizontal centre should NOT cause it to shift vertically. Full stop.

... and my fonts still don't display as WYSIWYG.

Cheers - Tony
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James1
Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline
[Post New] Mar 10, 2013 21:57
Hi,
Shifting could be relative to the characters used in the title as fonts baseline may be different....Maybe...I forget what you call letters like 'g' 'y' that goes below other letters.
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Carl312
Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline
[Post New] Mar 10, 2013 22:16
Quote: Hi,
Shifting could be relative to the characters used in the title as fonts baseline may be different....Maybe...I forget what you call letters like 'g' 'y' that goes below other letters.
Jim

James, I believe those are called descender.

From my dictionary:
de-scend-er (di-sendr)n. 1. One that descends. 2. Printing. The part of the lowercase letters, such as g, p, and q, that extends below the other lowercase letters. A letter with such a part.

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ynotfish
Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Online
[Post New] Mar 10, 2013 22:55
Carl -

YES! That's what I'm talking about - descending!

Jim - nice idea, but it happens whatever letters are used, even if the titles are all in CAPS! (attached)

Cheers - Tony
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James1
Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline
[Post New] Mar 11, 2013 00:36
Hi Tony,
I tried duplicating the jump but unsure if I done same procedure.

JIm
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Xerox [Avatar]
Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Aug 09, 2009 01:36 Messages: 446 Offline
[Post New] Mar 11, 2013 03:00
My observation is that the title creeps just because you open the title designer and do a save and exit. You don't even need to change the content or do any alignments.

You could copy and paste only the first title on the timeline, or drag and drop the same title from the Title room to the timeline. When you are done modifying each title, all the titles should have crept the same amount.

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ynotfish
Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Online
[Post New] Mar 11, 2013 04:28
and THAT, my friend, is a BRILLIANT observation. That's the root of the problem! ★★★★★ for Xerox!

For anyone who cares, just:
1. Drag any title to the timeline
2. Open it - align it to centre horizontally & vertically - save
3. Copy the title & paste it
4. Modify - align it to centre horizontally & vertically
5. Watch it jump back where it's supposed to be!

Xerox - brilliant. Title room - not so.

Thank you for taking the time to investigate, guys. It's appreciated.

Cheers - Tony

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