PD can make 'Title' pages - using Title Designer. It's (a Title Page) an image I think, that allows you to put text on it and then you can put in the timeline like an image - at least that is what I have done in the past. So you can create as many 'Title' pages as you want and then drag an drop them(from the Title Designer 'room') into the timeline (I work using the timeline).

Whenever you hit the icon of a page with a corner folded over and a PLUS sign (+) you create a new Title Template - is what they call it. ( you have to be IN the Title 'room' before that icon is available - located at the top of the Title Page window) And to get INTO the Title room, you hit/select that T along the lefft side of the PD window - it's right above the lightning bolt icon.

So are you really wanting a 'Title' as PD defines it or something else?

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Thanks, CS, for responding so quickly!
Every time I drag down one of the templates from the Title Room to the timeline, edit the text in it (on the timeline) it insists on forcing me to "Save As" a new template. That's crazy. These are merely title slides for one production, not many. Like this:

First "slide" Main Title
Second "slide" Paragraph #1 of Explanatory copy
Third "slide" Paragrath #2 of Explanatory copy
Fourth "slide" Produced by xxxxx
Fifth "slide" Directed by yyyy

Etc... Microsoft Movie Maker makes this easy, just drag into the timeline a Title or Caption. (That's about it for helpful stuff with MM, that's why I'm not using it any more!)

Also, if I want to add a caption to a video clip (not a "subtitle), how do I do that?

Many thanks!
Mark

Not that I know of. Do Save which saves the changes on the title template on the timeline not Save As which will create that new title template.

Mark, I just got a title page to overlay over a short video - just using Title Designer.

I just used the 'Default Title' - modify that font and border and shadow, etc...

And the rest is like tomasc stated - 'save' will save the title to the timeline in the project you are working on/in - and 'save as' saves a new title template in the Title room.

Is that what you are looking for?

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Hello Mark1978!

You can create a title page outside Power Director by using the Microsoft "Paint" programme. There's a "Text" icon in Paint that allows you to type in short sentences but the number of characters might be restrictive.

If you have Microsoft Publisher, open up a blank page, draw out a box of, say 32cm wide by 18cm high(don't worry of the "box" extends outside the "page" limit), Click on the line icon and select No Line(this eliminates a potentially unwanted border), then right-click on the box to "add text", type in what you want(you're only restricted by the dimensions of your box), set your text font and size, add a text colour if you wish, copy the resultant box(Ctrl+C) open Paint and Paste(Ctrl+V) and save the resultant panel in BMP, JPG, PNG or whichever image format will give best results. Make up as many "panels" as required using the Publisher panel, just type in the new text and copy to Paint. When you import to Power Director, lay your title frame on a PiP track, click on Modify, here you can set chroma-key and animation effects. With Chroma-key, tick the box and an extra window will appear, move the Pippet to the colur you want to "disappear", usually the white area around the text, and you've added your own title page, hey presto!

You might want to save that publisher page as a template for future use.

Cheers!

Neil.

Hi Mark!

I've briefly used Windows Movie Maker but it has several shortcomings, for a start, there's no "capture" facility(on the version for Windows 7, there was such provision for XP, gone backwards!) and in the editing procedure, sometimes I'd lose colour(while editing from digital material imported onto my computer). WMM was definitely a disappointment for me. Power Director, on the other hand, was "pure magic"! What I was able to create with PD7 then PD8, I had a ball editing video. Now I'm looking forward to PD14 Ultra, and after viewing a couple of YouTube tutorial vids, I've got ideas to try and can't wait to get my hands on the new software package.

In the meantime, I hope the suggestions I made earlier are or were of some use to you.

Cheers!

Neil.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Well here's 4 screenshots, so that's worth 4,000. You'll see my pain....

4th screenshot....

OK, I think I know what I was doing wrong, and you can see it in the screen shots. I was clicking the X to close out the Title Editor (to me, that is intuitive, but apparently NOT to CyberLink). I found that if I went up to the "File" menu, then hit Save from there it saved the title text change in the timeline. This actually VIOLATES Windows application development conventions of many years, where everything under a "File" menu should be FILE related. In the case of PD, the "file" is the project file. Perhaps if a Title menu where to appear when the Title Editor is up, with save under that, it would be far more intuitive.

Looks like you figured it out. Saw your 5:57:31 response after I had responded below - you can disregard below then.

It looks like when you are in Title Designer you haven't hit 'save' in the lower right bottom corner before you go back out in to the editing room. Do this, hit the save when you are IN the Title Designer room - after you've typed the text you want - hit that save at the bottom of that room.

If you don't save your project before exiting, you will lose all the work done (the most recent work that is will be lost). But you only lose the work done since your last save. I think you know this though.

pic 01 - you are in the editing 'room' - main room where you drag stuff to the timeline, insert transitions, etc...
pic02 - You are NOW in the Title Designer ROOM - and you are adding random text to the Title page you had previously created ... I think.
pic 03 - You are trying to exit out of Title Designer without saving the changes you had made to a previous Title Page - so PD asks if you want to save that 'new' Title page
pic 04 - ...which asks you for a new name for the 'changed' Title page that you added the random text to

This is what I see that is happening. If you don't save a title page that has changes on it - PD will ask if you want to save it before exiting it and losing the last changes.

CS
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Hi, Mark!

Something I'm going to need to watch out for with PD14, re:titles! I note(from your first image) your video clips are NOT on the master video timeline, but on one of the PiP tracks. That might, but only might have something to do with your situation, though I can't be absolutely certain. I'll leave it to others who may have a better idea than me about this.

Just further, in PD7 and PD8, the title editing simply provided text which was superimposed onto the clip, you'd set font, size, colour and any animation effect and it became part of the clip in the final render. There was an option to save for future use but it didn't "demand" you save it. Like I said, this is something I'm goint to have to watch for in the new PD14, as I generally only use the titles for captioning and, perhaps "closing credits". My video "Titles" are created by using my own lettering(each individual letter is placed on a separate PiP track and then later animated).

Cheers!

Neil.