User`s guide

Working with Title Containers
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Creating a Crawl
A crawl moves all the tracks in the Title Container horizontally across the screen in the order
that they appear in the Title Container.
To create a crawl:
1. Create the text to crawl in a Title Container—see “Creating Text Animation” on
page 422.
2. Select the Maintain Speed option to manually adjust the Speed of the tracks. Speed has
no affect if Maintain Speed is deselected. Speed pix/sec adjusts the speed at which each
track crawls across the screen.
3. Adjust Position Y to offset the crawled titles upward or downward.
The crawl sets keyframes for Position X in the timeline to move each track across the
screen.
4. Adjust Mask Left to set the distance of the mask at the left edge of the frame that hides
the text as it crawls.
5. Adjust Mask Right to set the distance of the mask at the right edge of the frame that
hides the text as it crawls.
6. Adjust Blend Left to soften the edges of the mask allowing the titles to fade out, in the
masked region.
7. Adjust Blend Right to soften the edges of the mask allowing the titles to fade in, in the
masked region.
8. To reverse the direction of the crawl, select the Reverse Direction option.
The following illustration shows rolling text with blended mask applied.
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Rolling text with blended mask.
The Page 1 track appears above the Page 2 track in the container
(in the timeline), so Page 1 appears first in the crawl.