68 VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE

Title

While a picture may be worth a thousand words, text effects in your video productions add clarity and comprehensibility. Besides, what production-quality movie would be complete without opening and closing credits? With VideoStudio’s Title Step, professional-looking titles complete with animation effects can be done in minutes. Use these settings to create the look of your selected title.

Editing Tab

Each option here applies to the whole text or part of it.

Create Title

Click to create a new title clip of modify an existing one.

Font face

Use any True Type font installed on your computer.

Font size

Sets the size of the text in points.

Font style

Bold, italic and underline.

Border & Shadow

Applies or removes text border and shadow effects.

Reset

Reverts to original settings.

Line spacing

Sets the spacing, or leading, between lines of text.

Al i g n m e nt

Aligns horizontal text to the left, center, or right. Or, aligns vertical text to the top, center, or bottom.

Vertical title

Makes the orientation of the title vertical or horizontal.

Duration

Sets the length of time for the title clip. You can also modify the duration by using the two yellow Trim handles on the Timeline.

Character color

Sets the color of the selected text.

Apply

Applies new settings to the title clip.

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