Can't Add Text when using fx?

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Timvids

Newbie Joined: Sep 09, 2011 15:59 Messages: 15 Offline

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May 02, 2014 13:06

Is there a way to add text, such as a subtitle or watermark type of effect, after I've used a blur effect?

Must be some way to do this without having to produce and then reload the whole video, as I just had to do.

1Nina

Senior Contributor Location: Norway, 50km southwest of Oslo Joined: Oct 08, 2008 04:12 Messages: 1070 Offline

May 03, 2014 07:58

Hi Timvids

I hope I understand what you are asking;
what I do for watermarking is having a .png image file with opacity set to 50/40/30% (depending color)
and insert it in it's own track and stretch it out for as long as I need/want.

You can do the same with text, either as a .png image of the text or adding
text (template) in it's own track.

Nina
Just something.
https://www.petitpoisvideo.com

Timvids

Newbie Joined: Sep 09, 2011 15:59 Messages: 15 Offline

May 07, 2014 19:32

Thanks for your reply Nina.

But no, that's not exactly what I was after. I could just as easily do a text screen and drag it down, as compared to making it opaque as a watermark.

BUT...the idea is the same...once I was through with editing some fx (a blurring one) there was no way I could do the above. PD simply would not let me do it.

I had to go all the way through producing it, then reloading it back into PD, THEN adding the text track. My question was wondering why it wouldn't simply let me insert the text track after all that work, since the text track field was open and could've accepted it.

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