1. select the effect
2. move the mouse cursor over the right edge of the effect. The cursor changes to a left/right arrow cursor.
3. click and drag the edge of the effect to the desired length.

Hatti Win 10 64, i7-4790k, 32GB Ram, 256 GB SSD, SATA 2TB, SATA 4TB, NVidia GTX1080 8GB, LG 34" 4K Wide, AOC 24" 1080

Hi Hatti

Thanks for the quick response - yes that was what I had been trying

It doesn't matter how far to the right I drag the effect edge of box (when hovering the cursor over it, for example it shows 10 seconds as the length of the clip)

Yet when I play the clip regardless of that the text is gone after the same amount of time


best wishes
Andrew

What an idiot I am......I had dragged the original effect onto the screen and not noticed it as NOT being in one of the Text timeline lines !!!

Redragged it to there and it now works

Thats a relief

That is really annoying, but I was just guessing. We need more information. First of all, what "text effect" did you use? PowerDirector does not know "text effects". If I go to the "effects room(F4)", there is no text effect. So I guessed that you used the "title room (F7)". But I have far over 100 texts. Which one?
Or do you have a title and try to use an effect on that?
What was the steps that you did? And did not work? Maybe a sreenshot of your timeline would help.
If the error is not obvious, we need information to readjust that error to help you.

Hatti Win 10 64, i7-4790k, 32GB Ram, 256 GB SSD, SATA 2TB, SATA 4TB, NVidia GTX1080 8GB, LG 34" 4K Wide, AOC 24" 1080

Yeah! Win 10 64, i7-4790k, 32GB Ram, 256 GB SSD, SATA 2TB, SATA 4TB, NVidia GTX1080 8GB, LG 34" 4K Wide, AOC 24" 1080

thanks Hatti it was your first response which convinced me I was on the right path to what was needed - just not in the right place