It's easy to add plain unadorned text in the title room.

1. Click on the + icon to add a new text item.


2. Edit your text. Specify colours and all the other properties you want. You can add effects such as fades, scrolls etc etc if you wish.


3. OK that and then drag your newly creted title onto the title timeline.

Quote It's easy to add plain unadorned text in the title room.

1. Click on the + icon to add a new text item.


2. Edit your text. Specify colours and all the other properties you want. You can add effects such as fades, scrolls etc etc if you wish.


3. OK that and then drag your newly creted title onto the title timeline.

Thanks, Longedge, but this seems to just create another full-screen title replacing the video for its duration, rather than simply text that will appear for a specified duration as a "label", so to speak, on my background video. Just a simple text box with reasonablel edit capabilities that I've found in other video editors.

Just drag the Default title template to the timeline, underneath one of your video tracks, that won't replace or move your video. It's a simple text in white displaying 'My Title' overlayed on top of your video. Asus P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 Mainboard : Intel i7 2700k @ 3.6ghz: 12 gb DDR3 Kingston ram:
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Quote Just drag the Default title template to the timeline, underneath one of your video tracks, that won't replace or move your video. It's a simple text in white displaying 'My Title' overlayed on top of your video.

Well, I really blew ths one. Both respondents are, of course correct. All my previous use of Title has been on the video track, using the black-backgrounded titles for chapters, etc. Something must have short-circuited in my 77 year old moth-eaten brain when I first tried the title on the "T" track, but I tried it again late last PM, and the background was indeed transparent.

Thanks, folks, for your input!

Ol' Pete

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Quote Just drag the Default title template to the timeline, underneath one of your video tracks, that won't replace or move your video. It's a simple text in white displaying 'My Title' overlayed on top of your video.

Well, I really blew ths one. Both respondents are, of course correct. All my previous use of Title has been on the video track, using the black-backgrounded titles for chapters, etc. Something must have short-circuited in my 77 year old moth-eaten brain when I first tried the title on the "T" track, but I tried it again late last PM, and the background was indeed transparent.

Thanks, folks, for your input!

Ol' Pete

All good Pete!

I appreciate your honesty. We all have days like that I reckon.

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