Fading in/out text overlays with background panel

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Henmarsh

Newbie Joined: Nov 16, 2019 07:10 Messages: 6 Offline

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Nov 21, 2019 05:32

I'm new to PD so forgive me if I'm doing this wrong.
I'm building a template for some simple instructional videos.
I wish to add caption overlays to some scenes.
For reading clarity these captions are white text over a grey 60% panel appearing in the centre of the screen.
I can get them to appear as layers over the main video by adding them to the second channel, but they appear abruptly and I would like them to fade in and out.
If I use the built-in fade in/out effect when building the caption I have to lose the panel and the transitions take too long to fade in/out.
Is there any way to achieve what I want to do?

TDK1044

Member Joined: Apr 11, 2019 12:27 Messages: 130 Offline

Nov 21, 2019 05:54

Quote I'm new to PD so forgive me if I'm doing this wrong.
I'm building a template for some simple instructional videos.
I wish to add caption overlays to some scenes.
For reading clarity these captions are white text over a grey 60% panel appearing in the centre of the screen.
I can get them to appear as layers over the main video by adding them to the second channel, but they appear abruptly and I would like them to fade in and out.
If I use the built-in fade in/out effect when building the caption I have to lose the panel and the transitions take too long to fade in/out.
Is there any way to achieve what I want to do?

Build your title plus panel as a composite with no fades attached, then use the cross fade transition to dissolve to and from your composite.

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