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1. Ta Abe 123 2 Abc 123 3 Abc 123 4 Abc 123 plied to each line of titles A font is the style or shape ofthe letters Each font size choice can be used 5 Abc 123 6 Abc 123 as is or it can be doubled in size horizontally vertically or both The four DAMA i Abe 029 Abc 123 3 Abc 123 4 Abc 123 5 Abc 123 6 Abc 1 The fonts are displayed as they will appear In this case horizontal doubling is high lighted and the fonts are doubled horizontally symbols in the top sub menu 1 determine whether the size will be doubled When you select any of the size doubling options the fonts at the bottom of the screen are displayed doubled as they will appear on the screen The size doubling options reduce the reso lution of the letters making them appear more jagged Forthe smoothestletters use fonts with out size doubling All the undoubled fonts pro vide maximum resolution For example the screen shown here is com posed of four lines All share the same font but have different doubling options set using the top menu The top line is undoubled the sec ond line is doubled horizontally the third line is doubled vertically and the last line is doubled in both directions The bottom portion of the menu 2 is used to choose the font TitleM aker 3000 allows you to chose fonts from a list Appendix B and enter them by their respective numbers Use MARK START to make the
2. Solder the other ends of the cable to the plug F Connect to the tip G and the base H ofthe plug Don t connect anything to the middle section of the plug X Push the end caps in place After testing you can glue the end caps using PVC cement if you wish Solderthe wires atthe other end ofthe cord to the poles from the tip and base ofthe stereo mini pin plug If you re unsure which poles are which ask atthe store when you make the purchase Your new remote trigger plugs into the GPI CONTROL jack on the back of TitleMaker 3000 IMPORTANT Any time you plug or unplug the GPI trigger make sure TitleMaker 3000 is turned OFF Plugging or unplugging with the unit turned on can cause the loss of your work VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 81 Chapter 22 Preview An optional preview monitor is useful for live titling applications allowing you to change titles without disrupting the live output About Preview Imagine a restaurant with monitors that normally play sports videos A TitleMaker 3000 is used to add phone messages menu specials and announce ments to the screens using superimposed scrolling and crawling titles As dinner service begins the manager wishes to change the specials Without the Preview feature the patrons would see the titles being changed They would see the same thing the manager sees including the Editing Screen typing in progress etc Instead the manager uses a separate monitor connected to the
3. one pattern per page rule discussed in Chapter 15 Patterns To create the border use MARK START to make the last sub menu active and use the arrow keys to choose the type of border you want Abc Abc Abc Abe A B C D E Using these choices you can place a box around the text E or you can place a border line above C below B or along both sides D Borders are always applied to the entire line that is you can t border part of a line To turn the border off select A Placing a Box Around Text To wrap a box around some lines of titles mark the text as described in the section Marking Text for Major Changes in Chapter 9 In the Border Style menu choose the box symbol from the bottom sub menu E The selected pattern will be wrapped all the way around the text lines that include the marked text Note that if part of a line is z will be included Hippocampus Kuda Hippocampus Kuda You can box a single Colisa Labiosa Colisa Labiosa line without marking text With no text marked simply leave the cursor anywhere in the line and use the menu to select the box A box will appear around that line VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 59 Placing a Line Above Below or Between Text Lines You can add a horizontal border line between any two lines of text Place the cursor on one of the textlines and use the line above C or line below B symbol to place a border line either above or below th
4. such as a VCR orcamera can be substituted Hint You can leave the unit permanently connected When the power supply is plugged in justleave the power switch located on the rear panel in the on posi tion and turn power off atthe keyboard The inputsignal is passed through to the outputand no titles are added The output can be connected directly to a monitor B instead of going through a VCR if you plan to display titles without recording them The source is optional TitleMaker 3000 can operate without a source generating titles on its own backgrounds and outputting them to a moni tor or recording VCR This chapter describes how to connect the inputs outputs and monitors Chapter 4 Connecting Editing Equipment goes further explaining how to attach editing equipment such as an edit controller video mixer video pro cessor or effects unit PAGE 12 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 What You ll Need A Video source optional Any standard video source with composite RCA style or S video Y C outputs can be used including VCRs camcorders cameras video disc players video production equipment such as a mixer processor or another titler and computers with television outputs If no source is used TitleMaker 3000 will create titles on its own backgrounds B OUTPUT monitor The monitor will be connected to a recording VCR in most cases Required connections depend on the VCR You can use any arrangement that will a
5. 22 editing 19 75 multiple source 21 single source 20 EditingScreen 5 25 35 editing titles 37 effectspeed 61 effects 19 60 Effects Inmenu 60 Effects O utmenu 60 em dash 28 empty projects 35 36 EQOIPAEITQURQE GS enhancer 21 entering text 6 entering titles 25 equipment 3 erasing 26 erasing memory 83 erasing projects 35 extra bold 51 F fadespeed 61 fades 60 fatcursor 38 features 1 filter effect 56 FONT amp SIZE menu 48 fonts 48 block effect 50 bold 50 cartoon style 49 extra bold 51 listing 86 mixed 49 outlines 50 sample 87 88 shadows 50 spacing 50 upper case 49 foreign characters 27 forward 71 full page scroll 62 G General Purpose Interface GPI 16 21 GPl trigger 77 guided tour 23 H half scroll 61 highlights 43 52 hints 1 11 13 18 19 34 38 42 49 50 51 53 54 56 59 62 63 72 73 74 78 79 82 85 horizontal doubling 48 horizontal positioning 41 horizontal slides 61 hue 53 IN and OUT markings 13 infinite duration 62 71 inheriting characteristics 46 input 11 inputconnections 17 inputselection switch 16 inputselector switch monitor 16 VCR 16 insert 7 inserting a page 33 internal timed trigger 21 65 66 67 international demo 84 introduction 1 J jacks 12 jagged 48 jittery slides 61 jobs 34 L language characters 27 earning from demo 23 LEFT arrow 25 etter color 52 etterspacing 50 ightness 53 imit scroll 61 im
6. Editing Presenta tions and Other Applications Video titles are useful for more than justvideo editing The high quality titles versatile play modes projects and 16 000 character capacity make TiteMaker 3000 perfectfor a variety of applications Applications Here are some of the applications for TitleM aker 3000 Video editing Business presentations Live displays Video billboard Nightclubs Retail point of sale display Hotel and business lobbies P ublic information displays at an airport for instance Cable television information channels Broadcast slate generators Classroom presentations Self paced demos This chapter discusses three specifically Video editing presentations and live video display video billboard Video Editing About Video Editing Video editing translates raw camcorder footage into polished professional productions you ll be proud to show It usually involves two aspects Remov ing unwanted footage and adding elements such as titles and effects While film is edited by cutting and splicing lengths of film videotape can not be practically spliced So video editing is done by selective copying The raw footage is played by one machine and a separate VCR records the results on a new tape The two machines are controlled either by hand or automati cally to make sure the final tape contains justthe scenes you want An editing system such as Videonics Thumbs Up or Edit Suite is often used
7. RCA style format video using a tuner television VCR etc n Connect the video source s VIDEO OUT jack to the video IN jack on TitleMaker 3000 Connect the source s AUDIO OUT jacks to TitleMaker 3000 s AUDIO IN jacks AUDIO VIDEO AUDIO VIDEO IN IN IN IN InputConnection E xamples PAGE 18 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Avoid mixing input and output types if S video jacks are not available on both the input and output use composite for both I If you try to use the S video output and the compos WM ite RCA input an on screen warning appears to re ING 4 K mind you to use the S video input n Testthe input connections Press POWER on the keyboard to turn TitleM aker 3000 off The input video is passed through to the output so you should see the input video on the OUTPUT monitor Troubleshooting Hints If you do not see the picture you expect review the following hints Confirm that the POWER light is on Double check the connections especially the one from TitleMaker 3000 s VIDEO OUT to your monitor or VCR s VIDEO IN Most problems are caused by a cabling mistake Besure the television is setto monitor the video input you are using rather than say channel 7 see Setthe OUTPUT monitor s input switch and that the VCR is setto record its video input see Setthe Record VCR in put This is the second most common cause of problems Check the obvious Are the POWER SWIT
8. block effect 50 BNC 12 bold 50 border box 58 border color 52 borderline 58 Border Style menu 58 borders 58 removing 59 box 58 brackets 8 43 built in demo 23 button trigger 80 C cable GPI 22 cableTV 12 cables 12 cabling 12 capabilities 1 capacity 30 capacity memory 82 capitals 26 CAPSLOCK 6 CAPS LOCK key 26 CAPS LOCK light 26 cartoon style font 49 centering 17 CG definition 1 chain 19 changing characteristics 46 changing projects 36 changing titles 37 charactergenerator definition 1 character limit 30 characterset 86 characteristics 7 45 changing 46 choosing 46 concept 45 co en ved text copying 47 inheriting 46 characters accented 89 special 89 choices 43 clearing all 83 clock 65 splay 31 62 66 67 68 format 65 real time 65 67 68 set 65 start 65 synchronize 65 trigger 66 text 68 color bars 53 color control bars 53 Colormenus 52 colorswatch 53 colors 52 hints 54 noisy 54 removing 54 columns 27 come and go titles 70 COMMAND 83 COMMAND arrow keys 26 84 COMMAND ACCENT COPY 10 23 83 COMMAND ACCENT DEMO 10 23 83 COMMAND M 26 82 COMMAND MARK END 83 COMMAND MARK START 83 SPN MENDANEW PAGE COMMAND P 81 85 COMMAND PAGE UP COMMAND PAGE DOWN 36 COMMAND PLAY 10 66 84 COMMAND SHIFT 2 COMMAND SHIFT arrow keys 26 83 E COMMAND SHIFT COPY 10 23 Bh COMMAND SHIFT DELETE 35 83 COMMAND SHIFT DEMO 23 84 COMMAND SHIF
9. go back and copy the demo again PAGE 24 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 You can then use the cursor to tour the demo You can view the menu settings used on any line Position the cursor in the line press each menu key and observe the settings Using the Demo to Create Titles Instead of creating a new set of titles from scratch you can start with the demo as raw material To do this copy the demo into the Editing Screen as described above Delete pages and modify textto create your own titles This is often faster than creating new material from scratch See Chapter 9 for additional details about editing and or deleting text VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 25 Chapter 6 Typing Titles Creating titles is simple using TitleM aker 3000 s full keyboard to type upper and lowercase plus special and accented characters The Editing Screen and Cursor The Editing Screen is used whenever you are typing or editing text New text always appears at the blink ing cursor 1 New letters are always in serted they don treplace letters already on the screen The page symbols 2 indicate where a new page oftextbegins They also tell you the number of the page B the number of the project to which the page be longs A the effects that will be used to start and end the page C and E how long the page will be displayed D and whether time and or date will display on the page F These items are described iB 3 El 15 0 0
10. is designed for live use Connect a small monitor to the preview jack and the Editing Screen and Page Index will only appear on that monitor Anytime you edit titles the regular output will carry what ever video is plugged into the IN jack without titles The audience will see the input video rather than watching you type When you press PLAY the titles again appear on both monitors The internal timed trigger Chapter 18 makes it possible to have a project live titles play at a specified date and time PAGE 80 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING REMOTE TRIGGER BUTTON Tools required A soldering iron and solder Wire cutters An electric drill Parts required A 4 inch piece of 3 4 inch PVC pipe C and two end caps B and E 3 conductor 22 24 gauge stranded wire cable D A normally open momentary push button switch A A stereo 3 5 mm mini pin plug F Instructions Drill a 1 4 inch hole in the center of one PVC end cap E and a hole to match the push button switch in the other end cap B Feed one end ofthe cable through the end cap with the 1 4 inch hole E and strip the ends of each wire Tie a single knot D about 8 inches from the end of the wire Slide the wire through the PVC pipe the nut and washer and the other end cap B Solder the two wires at the knotted end to the two poles on the switch A Slip the switch into the end cap and secure it using the nut and washer
11. 9 Use the left and right arrow keys to move between the month date and year Clock and Date Notes Once set TitleMaker 3000 will retain the correct date and time in its memory When using a time format that includes seconds HH MM SS you can synchronize the clock to a time reference by setting it ahead to a time in the future and then pressing NEW LINE OK when that moment arrives For instance setthe clock 10 seconds ahead and watch your reference clock As the tenth second passes press NEW LINE OK and the internal clock will be synchronized PAGE 66 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Displaying a Projectata Pre Determined Date and Time You can automatically trigger a project to play at a pre determined time without the use of an external GPI To set the internal timed trigger A ON lg 01 15 00 Bil 08 31 96 press CMD Z Highlight the bottom sub menu Position the highlight atthe F first symbol ON OFF Turn the in B ON iy 02 00 E 08 31 96 ternal trigger on by pressing the up or down arrow key or N ON Press c ON My 03 e B 01 96 the right arrow key to highlight the project and type in the number of the project you ve selected using leading zeros for projects numbered 1 9 Next enter the time using a 24 hour format that you want the project to be played Press the right arrow key to highlight the date field then enter the date that you want the project to play using MMDDYY format The first examp
12. A6 OUAEIOU aelOUAEIOU We O D D gt Or VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 FontSample TitleMaker 3000 includes 51 fonts in four sizes plain doubled vertically doubled horizontally doubled vertically and horizontally Here is a sample of each font ABCDE FG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDERG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG HEDEFE ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG PAGE 87 abcdetg abcdefg abcdefg abcdelg abedefg abcdefg ABCOEFG abcdefg abcdefg abcdefg abcdefg abedefg abcdefg abcdefz abedejz ABCDEFG abcdefg ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG abcdefg abodefg PAGE 88 28 e 30 3I 32 33 34 39 36 36 39 p 4 42 45 u Lj 46 Sgt ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ARCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDERG ABCOTYESG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG Amnrra ABCDEFG AGC ABCOEFG ABCDEFG IBOIUG ABCDEFG WIR ABCDEFG ABLCDEFG AaCOEFG ARCDEFG ABCDEFG ABLOEFG VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 ABCDEFG abcoefg abedeiq abcdefg abcdefg al hl abedefa abcd efg abcdefg trud abcoetg LEN ABCDEFG abedefg abcdetg itr abcdefz abcderg mener ABCDEFG abrdefy VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 89 SPECIAL CHARACTERS Refer to Chapter 6 for a complete listing with explanations The following special characters are entered by pressing ACCENT and the indicated char
13. Durations Scroll and Crawl You can determine how long each page will be displayed its duatiay and what tasitin dts fade wipe etc will be used to introduce begin and remove end the page You can also display the current time and or date or make titles all ac aad cn or off the page Position the cursor anywhere on a page and use the EFFECTS IN menu to change the page s duration scrolling speed and the effect that will introduce the page Use the Effects Out menu to choose the effect that will be used to remove the page Duration is set using the bottam subQmenu of the Effects In menu Highlight the digits next to the clock smol on the left hand side of the menu and type in the desired time You can set infinite duration displaying the page until you press PLAY again by highlighting the infinity symbol See Chapter 17 Playing the Pages When the pages are amplete move the cursor to the start of the first page and press PIAY Shortcut To play all the pages in the project press QMD Command PLAY Each page will be played in sequence using the selected durations and effects To play just same of the pages play manually or use other specialized play options See Chapter 20 Learning More A convenient way to become a TitleMaker 3000 expert is to load the demo into the Editing Screen for study To do this press CMD Command ACCENT COPY at the same time OD Command SHIFT COPY for the internationa
14. SWITCH is turned on and the keyboard power is turned off video is routed fran the VIDEO IN to the VIDEO OUT and no titles are added Note keyboard must have been cycled on and off Since the last time the unit was powered on at the ER SWITCH in order for video pass through to work H Upside down legends make it easy to make connections without turning unit around Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 1 In a HUTY Ts oes De tts 1 Helpful Hints eet nets 1 What is a Video Titler vu 1 What is TitleMaker 3000 ween 1 Basic Applications vices 2 EQUIP MEN tas seats ae exa nee e XR 3 Chapter 2 QuickStart sesse 4 Chapter 3 Connections 11 Connections Overall Concept 11 What You ll Need 1 Types of Input and Output Jacks 12 Types of Cables Used with TitleMaker 3000 sss 12 IN and OUT Markings Connection Diagram Connecting Power 1 Turning Power On and Off Video Pass Through and Data Protection 14 Connecting Outputs and Monitors 15 Connecting a Video Source dT Troubleshooting Hints 18 Chapter 4 Connecting Editing Equipment 19 CONC C DEG eaten inen P e 19 Videonics Equipment Arrangements 19 Single Source Editing Setup 20 Use with Video Processors sss 21 Multiple Source Editing with a Video Mixer 21 GP Controls aciei no nimio 21 Chap
15. Suite are examples See VIDEO EDITING EDITING SCREEN In TitleMaker 3000 a display that shows the text you have entered with its characteristics page divisions and other features designed to assist in creating titles The Editing Screen contains the cursor See CURSOR PAGE INDEX PLAY SCREEN ENHANCER Device that allows user to modify video improve apparent sharpness or reduce unwanted artifacts See VIDEO PROCESSOR FADE In TitleM aker 3000 a fade is a transition effect in which the titles fade away to leave the back ground or vice versa FONT The form and shape of a set of characters FULL PAGE SCROLL See SCROLL GPI A two wire control system where the contact be tween the two wires triggers an event GENLOCK Creation of a video signal that is synchronized to a reference signal Because the new signal is synchronized it can be superimposed on the origi nal signal and effects such as dissolves can be performed Name comes from GENerating a LOCKed signal TitleMaker 3000 s titles are genlocked to the video input HALF SCROLL See SLIDE HIGHLIGHT On screen indication that shows which of several choices is selected VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 HLS Hue Lightness Saturation color specification model as used in TitleM aker 3000 HUE One of three numbers used to define a color in TitleM aker 3000 Hue specifies the dominant color such as red yellow orange blue See LIGHT NESS SA
16. TitleMaker 3000 includes special characters such as and and accented characters to support many languages They are indicated on the upper right hand corner of the keys in blue The ACCENT key on the bottom row ofthe keyboard is used to type special and accented characters AUT To type special characters simply press ACCENT while you press the desired character For instance press ACCENT and Y together to type the character SHIFT is used in some cases to type the capitalized version of the special character Accented letters such as and are typed by combining the accent mark with the letter The accent is typed followed by the letter For example press ACCENT 6 then press the a key and you will see The charts on the next pages show all the accented and special characters and how to type them PAGE 28 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 SPECIAL CHARACTERS In the following list indicates that keys are pressed together you don t press the key e Capital letters are used for clarity you don t press SHIFT unless it is indicated Character Keys Notes C ACCENT C C ACCENT SHIFT C ACCENT A ACCENT SHIFT A ACCENT 0 Press the letter O not the number 0 ACCENT SHIFT 0 Press the letter O not the number 0 ACCENT 0 ACCENT SHIFT 0 B ACCENT S ACCENT D ACCENT ACCENT i ACCENT 1 i ACCENT ACCENT Q Cents ACCENT
17. W Pound ACCENT E Yen ACCENT R Registered trademark fe ACCENT T Trademark ACCENT Y Copyright ACCENT 7 SPACE Degree ACCENT U Bullet ACCENT Long em dash ACCENT Left curled single quote ACCENT Right curled single quote x ACCENT Left curled quote K ACCENT Right curled quote 8 ACCENT F Heart 3 ACCENT G Checkmark H ACCENT H Star u ACCENT J Diamond n ACCENT K Square n ACCENT L Open box ACCENT M E ACCENT N ACCENT V ACCENT B Note TitleMaker 3000 offers curly quotes in addition to straight quotes Curly quotes look like this as opposed to straight quotes which look like this It also has the em dash a dash that is longer than a hyphen Note that the straight quotes in some fonts are actually slightly curled due to the style used by that font s designers For the degree symbol type ACCENT 7 followed by SPACE VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 ACCENTED LANGUAGE CHARACTERS The accents above the 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 9 keys are used with other letters to make accented letters For instance to type you would use ACCENT 4 followed by the letter U The capitalized version U would be displayed using ACCENT 4 followed by SHIFT U In this list letter means the letter you want accented PAGE 29 To Type Press Then press ACCENT 2 SPACE a 6 ACCENT 2 etter A E l O U ACC
18. a camcorder or VCR player to play scenes from an original tape The desired scenes are recorded on a blank tape leav ing the unwanted scenes behind An edit controller such as Videonics Thumbs Up may be used to control the player and trigger the recorder for accurate edits TitleMaker 3000 can add titles as the scenes are recorded on the new tape To do this the titler is connected between the player and the recorder When an edit controller is used the titler may be used between the edit controller and the player or between the edit controller and the recorder Either arrangement is likely to work unless the edit controller relies on infor mation that is coded in the invisible portions of the video signal vertical in terval time code or VITC If that is the case the titler may interfere with the time code when titles replace the incoming video Follow the instructions in the edit controller s manual If there are no instructions connect TitleMaker 3000 between the edit controller and the recorder VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 21 If you experience problems with this setup connect TitleMaker 3000 be tween the player and the edit controller instead Use with Video Processors A video processor or enhancer may be used as well P rocessors are generally connected directly to the camcorder output so they adjust the video before titles are added Multiple Source Editing with a Video Mixer Advanced editing combines v
19. change the position of the text by using the POSN Posi tion key in conjunction with the arrow keys Positioning Horizontally Left Right Center Position the cursor on a text line or mark text in several lines as described in Marking Text for Major Changes in Chapter 9 Changing Titles Press and release the POSN key a light will go on in the upper right hand of the keyboard indicating the POSN key is in use then press the RIGHT or LEFT arrow on the keypad The selected lines will change position between the left side of the screen the center and the right side and the light on the keyboard will go out Abelard Abelard amp amp Abelard amp Heloise Heloise Heloise You can position many lines at once by marking text Any line that con tains any marked text will change Positioning Vertically Up Down Center You can also automatically position the text vertically making it appear at the top middle or bottom of a screen Gable amp Lombard ar le Lombard ole Lombard PAGE 42 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Position the cursor anywhere in the page you want to change Press and release the POSN Position key then press the UP or DOWN arrow on the keypad The texton the Editing Screen will not change Instead the page sym bol will change to show you the new position The text itself won t show its new positioning until you press PLAY You can vertically position many pages at once by marking t
20. disappear instantly without any transition The speed setting B doesn taffecta cut A fade E causes the page to fade in or out In a wipe F a line or corner sweeps across the screen If the wipe is an Effect In the moving boundary reveals the new page of titles in its wake If it s an Effect Out the wipe removes the titles TitleMaker 3000 includes 18 wipes Any of them can be used as an Effect In or an Effect Out A slide or half scroll G causes the entire page of titles to slide on or off the page The in and out transition effects can be different For instance you could have titles fade in then wipe away Or you could have them slide in from the right hold for a few seconds then slide out the bottom G ul d EHAR ENE Jes Us EESTI GERM IER ER ES ay N w ES Gl e N ea D 9 x Ea t E 0 06 5 CO Slide Notes If the text does not all fit on the page text may be cut off depending on slide direction and position of the text on the page For instance if a line thatis widerthan the screen a horizontal slide stops when the text reaches the edge Characters thatare pastthe trailing edge are not displayed You can display the missing characters by editing the page so all characters fit breaking the line into two or using a smaller font size or style A slide can be in any of four directions and iti
21. editthe page to show the extra text break the line into smaller pieces use a smaller font size or style or use a scroll or crawl effect There is no fixed limit on the number of pages or on the number of charac ters that can be typed on a page Aline can contain up to 1000 characters If you type beyond the 1000 char acter limit the memory warning symbol appears Scrolling pages are limited to 110 115 lines depending on the number of characters in the line The memory warning symbol appears if you attempt to play a page that scrolls too many lines If this occurs break the scroll list into two pages or delete some ofthe lines Creating a Page Use NEW PAGE to start a new screen For example type Sherlock Holmes then press NEW PAGE then type 221B Baker Street Now press PAGE UP then PLAY You will see something like this Sherlock Holmes Sherlock 221B Baker Street Holmes 221B Baker Street Sherlock Holmes is on one page and 221B Baker Street is on the next VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 31 Page Symbols 5 Fis 0 06 5 F QH E A set of page symbols starts A B C D E F each page The first symbol A indicates the current project described in the next section The number indicates the number of the projectto which the page belongs The second symbol B indicates the number ofthe page within the project It also shows the vertical positioning of the text on the page The symbol
22. either case connect TitleMaker 3000 s audio OUT jacks marked L and R to the Record VCR s AUDIO IN PAGE 16 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 2 If you will not be recording the output connectTitleMaker 3000 s video OUT to the VIDEO IN of a monitor You can use S video Y C or compos ite R CA style cables for this connection If your television has no VIDEO input that is it has only an RF cable antenna jack you will need a VCR or an RF modulator to connect TitleMaker 3000 to it Connect TitleMaker 3000 s audio OUT marked L and R to the monitor s AUDIO IN or to an external amplifier and speakers n Setthe OUTPUT monitor s input switch Important If the television monitor you are using has an input selection switch set it so itis displaying the correct input For instance if you have connected to the monitor s VIDEO 1 input jack you would choose VIDEO 1 as your input Refer to the manual that came with your monitor for de tails n SettheRecord VCR input Important Set the VCR s controls so that it will record whatever comes into its VIDEO IN jack rather than recording a broadcast channel Differ ent VCRs use different methods to do this Your VCR s manual should explain how probably in a section that discusses copying tapes from a camcorder Here are some common examples e Most VCRs have an input selector switch that v sc TYNER S vHs Live TYNER goes between LINE or AUX EXT A V or S and TUNER See the illustr
23. final production Where scenes will play without titles add a blank page with a plain VIDEO background To do this position the cursor atthe end of a page and press NEW PAGE tocreate a new blank page Press BACKGROUND PATTERN and use the top sub menu to choose VIDEO If you know exactly when each page of titles will be needed in the produc tion you can setthe duration of each page and simply press PLAY and letthe tides run Alternatively you can set the duration of all pages to be infinite and as the production is recorded trigger each new page as required Projects The project capability is a convenient way to hold many titling jobs atonce You can keep standard titles such as your introductory titles credits and copyright information in project 1 and copy them to each new production Triggering the Titles Manually If your edit controller does not have a GPI output described below you can trigger tiles manually by watching the controller and using the PLAY key to trigger each page atthe correct moment Itis sometimes convenientto setthe editcontrollerto pause on scenes that require titles or to make a scene ata time to make it easier to be there when a title needs to be triggered GPI Trigger If your edit controller is automatic and has a GPI trigger the entire process can be automated with each page of titles automatically triggered by the con troller A special cable is needed to connect the GP jacks on the two d
24. hold the POWER keys too long a locked demo will begin playing To stop the demo press ACCENT SHIFT DEMO Warning This will erase all projects all colors etc You cannot undo this operation Moving the Cursor In the Editing Screen the CMD and SHIFT keys modify the arrow keys Modifier key LEFT or RIGHT arrow UP or DOWN arrow SHIFT Next start or end of line Start or end of next page CMD Command Next start or end of line Start or end of current project CMD Command SHIFT Next start or end of line Start of next project Inthe Page Index screen SHIFT causes the arrow keys to move a full screen ata time CMD causes the arrow keys to move a project ata time CMD SHIFT also moves a project ata time SHIFT and CMD also modify the meanings of the MARK START and MARK END keys in both the Editing Screen and the Page Index screens SHIFT MARK START places a mark at the start of the current page and SHIFT MARK END places a mark at the end of the page CMD MARK START places a mark at the start of the current project and CMD MARK END places a mark at the end of the project Projects Use CMD SHIFT UP DOWN to move to the next or previous project CMD NEW PAGE while the Page Index is on the screen creates a new project CMD SHIFT DELETE while in the Editing Screen erases the contents of a project Moving In the Color Menu n the bottom sub menu with the color palette use SHIFT with the ar
25. in the EFFECTS OUT menu are ig nored A scrollis similar to a slide up except that it scrolls straight through never stopping in the middle Ifa page has more than 110 115 lines depending on the amount of text in each line it may be too long for a vertical scroll If the memory warning symbol appears when you attemptto play the scrolled page break the page into two pages or remove some lines PAGE 64 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Hints on Using Effects Use simple effects most of the time reserving fancy effects for when you want to attract attention such as when using TitleMaker 3000 to create video presentations Use complementary effects for in and out For example try a wipe from the center for the in effect then wipe back to the center for the out effect Try a medium speed slide to start a page and a high speed slide at the end When pages use different background or border colors and patterns most effects will happen in two steps For example suppose you use fades to change from titles on a red background to titles on a green background The titles on the first page will fade first leaving the red background Then the background will cutto green and the in effect for the second page will occur Forthe simplest effects use the same background color and the same patterns on both pages VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 65 Chapter 18 Clock and Date Features With TitleM aker 3000 s versatile clock and da
26. internal timed trigger always plays from the first page of the project The rest of the pages will play exactly as they would if you played the project manually If a timed duration has been set the pages will play in sequence if a page has infinite duration it will display indefinitely wait ing for someone to press PLAY or for an external GPI trigger TitleMaker 3000 supports one internal timed trigger The internal timed trigger can be programmed to play only one project at a time Displaying the Real Time Clock and Date You can display a running clock date or both on a page in your project When time is selected the clock will continue to run in real time meaning it will always display the current time Likewise when the date option is se lected the date will change from one day to the next Both will stay current regardless of whether the unit is powered on To display both a running clock and date on a page press EFFECTS IN Position the highlight at the bottom sub menu D and use the up or down arrows to choose the combination clock date symbol E7 Next use the left or right arrow keys to move the highlight from the clock date symbol to the position symbol E8 Change the horizontal position of the clock with the up or down arrow keys Press NEW LINE OK or PLAY To display only a running clock in a page press EFFECTS IN Position the highlight at the bottom sub menu D and use the up or down ar UR iE m rows t
27. superimpose titles on video change the background pattern to VIDEO rather than a solid color or pattern as described in Chapter 15 Patterns Position the cursor on the page that contains the titles you wish to super impose Press the BACKGROUND PATTERN menu key Use MARK START to activate the top sub menu Use the RIGHT arrow key to highlight the VIDEO symbol Press NEW LINE OK Confirm that your video source is running start the VCR or camcorder and press PLAY The OUTPUT monitor shows your page of titles superimposed over the source video Superimposing Titles on Video with a Transparent Pattern You can mix a background color or pattern with the video creating a see through pattern effect Use the top sub menu in the BACKGROUND PATTERN El menu to choose solid color or a pixel or rainbow pattern PAGE 70 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Use MARK START to highlight the bottom sub menu the Video P attern slider Use the RIGHT and LEFT arrow keys to select a mix between video and the pattern Press NEW LINE OK Making Titles Come and Go You can make superimposed titles appear for a while then disappear You can make them appear using an effect such as a fade or slide then cause them to disappear using another effect To do this place blank pages with video backgrounds between pages of titles Katia Toronto Create a page of superimposed titles Atthe end of the pa
28. that can be displayed on a televi sion or monitor or be recorded by a VCR Whatis the TitleMaker 3000 TitleMaker 3000 is a video titler with many additional capabilities With TitleM aker 3000 you can Create high quality video titles over a solid color or patterned background or superimposed genlocked over a video picture Create and hold over 16 000 characters of text divided into hundreds of pages Divide your pages into projects The newsletter and other services are available for Videonics customers in the U S and Canada Elsewhere contact your Videonics distributor or retailer PAGE 2 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Copy and move text to revise titles without retyping Position text anywhere on the page including automatic centering Choose from a wide variety of fonts and sizes Choose different styles You can change letter spacing make the letters bold and add outlines or shadows to the titles Apply a pattern and any of a million colors to titles backgrounds outlines and borders Usetransitions fades and wipes to startor end each page oftitles Use scrolls and crawls to move titles on or off the screen Useareal time clockto superimpose a running clock onto all backgrounds including live video Have a project start playing automatically at a specified date and time Basic Applications TitleMaker 3000 can be usedin live ortaped settings Chapter 21 Editing Presentati
29. the desired page using either the Editing Screen orthe Page Index and press PLAY Play will begin atthe cur sor location To play a range of pages mark text that spans those pages Position the cursor anywhere in the firstpage you wantto display and press MARK START Position the cursor in the last page and press MARK END Press PLAY and the marked pages are displayed in a loop after the last marked page plays the first marked page plays and the sequence begins again Playing Backwards Press SHIFT while you press PLAY to play the pages in reverse order You can also reverse the direction while pages are playing by pressing just the SHIFT key Press PLAY again to continue playing in the forward direction You can also play backwards a page ata time using the LEFT arrow key as described in a later section Pause You can pause display at any time by pressing the SPACE bar The cur rently displayed page remains on the screen even after its duration time has finished Press SPACE again or PLAY to resume automatic play Hint This is analogous to the pause orstill function on a VCR Search Cue and Review When you are playing titles you can force the immediate display of the next page even if the current page s duration has not finished To do this press PLAY The next page is displayed immediately and automatic play con tinues from that page on You can back up a page by holding SHIFT and pressing PLAY The current
30. the rear panel and a key on the keyboard TM 3000 Unit Press the POWER SWITCH D con the rear panel the power light on the front panel cames on for a moment and then goes out Simulta neously the three lights on the keyboard ugper right hand comer flash on and off Keyboard Press the ER key on the keyboard upper left hand comer and the power light comes on You should see a screen called the Editing Screen on the OUIPUT moni tor similar to the a in the illustration below Press ER again to turn power off Titles are retained in TitleMaker 3000 s memory even if the unit is unplugged When vicEo Note power is off and the power switch remains on the OUTPUT monitor shows the source that is plugged into VIDED IN When tuming the unit off power off the keyboard and then the rear panel switdy making sure the power light is at before you umplug the unit Demo To start the demo press ACCENT while you press DEMO POWER The demo is a built in project that demonstrates a wide range of the TM 3000 features and effects To run the DEMO If no demo appears international version of the demo press SHIF check the connections Press any key to stop the demo Instant Titles Creating basic titles is sinple Start with the Editing Screen The screen may not lock exactly like this but it should have at least the blink
31. the text on the page Additionally page symbols tell you which effects have been set to start and end the page whether the page will scroll or crawl how long the page will be displayed between transitions and whether the time and or date have been selected to display and its horizontal posi tion on the page In the examples above the first page page bar A starts with a cut 1 remains on the screen for 6 5 seconds 2 ends with a fade 3 and displays the current date 4 which is left justified on the page 5 The next page page bar B opens with an imploding wipe 6 all four edges sweep in to the center remains on the screen until PLAY is pressed 7 ends with an exploding wipe 8 the edges sweep from the center out to the edges and displays current time 9 which is left justified on the page 10 Effects Menus The Effects In menu contains three sub menus The first two are used to determine which effect will be used to start the page and the speed of the effect The third menu is used to determine how the title is displayed after the in effect is performed including displaying the date and time The Effects Out menu is used to choose the effect that will remove the page Itis identical to the EFFECTS IN menu and works the same way ex cept that the bottom sub menu is omitted VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 61 Transition Effects Cuts Fades Slides and Wipes A cut D makes the page appear or
32. to highlight the appropriate symbols and change their settings as described in the following sections Setting Duration To set a fixed duration highlight the numbers next to the duration symbol 1 The numbers show the duration of the page how long it will be dis played in minutes seconds and tenths of seconds They can be set from 0 00 0 which will display it just for an instant to just under ten minutes Highlight the clock symbol and its numbers and type a value using the number keys To seta duration to 10 5 seconds for instance you would type 1 then 0 then 5 If you enter 60 or more as the number of seconds the TitleMaker will convert itto minutes 72 seconds would be changed to 1 12 0 for example The numbers you type will scroll in from the right If you make a mistake and wantto re enter the number press 0 several times first to clearthe num ber Hint To display a page longer than 9 59 9 duplicate the page using COPY Mov ing and Copying P ages in Chapter 7 End the first page and start the second page with cuts The cuts will be invisible since both pages are identical and the result will be thatthe two pages will appearas one Y ou can repeatthis to display a page as long as you like VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 63 Infinite Duration You can set a page to infinite duration when it s played the page will remain on the screen until the PLAY key is pressed again To do this high ligh
33. 4 SHIFT POSITION 17 85 SHIFT key 26 shortcuts 82 side bars 59 single source editing 20 sizes 48 skipping pages 72 slide 61 slide projector 72 slide speed 61 slides 60 slow response 82 smarttab 26 smoothness ofletters 48 solid color pattern 55 spacing 50 special characters speed 61 66 82 straight quotes 28 sub menus 7 43 superimpose 69 superimposing 8 switch trigger 80 switching projects 36 T TAB key 26 television 15 copying 39 editing 7 entering 6 25 modifying 7 moving 39 revising 37 typing 25 textcolor 52 textual object date 68 time 68 Thumbs Up 20 22 75 title generator definition 1 Title Style menu 49 titler definition 1 titles entering 25 revising 37 typing 25 display 31 62 66 realtime 65 67 68 set 65 start 65 synchronize 65 trigger 66 as text 68 transition effects 9 60 transition speed 61 transitions 9 transparenteffect 56 transparentpattern 69 trigger 72 display 65 66 67 format 66 67 set 66 start 66 time 66 67 trigger switch 80 troubleshooting hints 18 TUNER LINE switch 16 typing text 6 typing titles 25 U UNDO 7 38 UNDO key 37 UP arrow 25 uppercase 26 upper case only fonts 49 usercolors 52 53 using demo 23 using menus 43 44 V VCR 11 vertical doubling 48 vertical interval time code vertical positioning 41 vertical slides 61 vibrating slides 61 ideo billboard 74 video editing 19 75 IDEO OUT 17 IDEO pattem
34. 5 Setting the Clock and Date Formats 65 Setting the Clock and Date Clock and Date Notes vices Displaying a Project at a Pre Determined Date and TIME seisnesid Repeating Triggers 2 Internal Timed Trigger Notes eee 67 Displaying the Real Time Clock ANG Dale dcn c teen e es Real Time Clock and Date Notes Placing Time or Date in Your Text Mie Chapter 19 Superimposing Titles 69 Superimposing Titles on Video sesse 69 Superimposing Titles on Video with a Transparent Pattern wees 69 Making Titles Come and GO 70 Chapter 20 Playing Titles 71 Pro e Gto eee dee dee n des 71 Important Concepts all Playing All Pages a71 Playing Some Pages 12 Playing Backwards 12 Pals Gio ictetcotue 12 Search Cue and Review sees 12 Manual Play Slide Projector Mode Continuous Play Video Billboard Leaving Play to Edit Again Chapter 21 Editing Presentations and Other Applications 75 Applications wee Video Editing Presentations s RIT cheatin churns Chapter 22 Preview wuss About PTevIew m cte Using a PREVIEW Monitor Forcing Preview Mode AppendixA Advanced Techniques Shortcuts and Command Keys woes Ca Pa Cypriana nN Erasing Memory and Resetting Unit Moving the Cursor Proje Gto cce Moving In the Color Menu Using the Demo esse Play Modesti tes Contents Miscellaneous H
35. 6 5 Cd xl in detail in Chapter 7 P ages A B C D E F BH Meek Moving Around the Screen Use the arrow keys to position the cursor Note You cannotmove the cursor pastthe end ofthe text If you wantto add some new textatthe bottom ofthe page pastthe lastcharacter use the NEW LINE OK key to add some blank lines and move the cursor to the bottom ofthe page Or position all ofthe text atthe bottom ofthe page using the POSN Position key Chapter 10 If there is more than one full page of text you can move to the next or previous page by pressing PAGE UP orPAGE DOWN or by using the UP or DOWN arrows to go beyond the top or bottom line on the page the pages will scroll to keep the cursor in view The cursor will stop when it reaches the top of the first page or the bottom of the last page Shortcuts for Moving the Cursor Hold SHIFT while you press the RIGHT or LEFT arrow key and the cursor will jump all the way across the screen in the direction of the arrow you press Pressing PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN or holding SHIFT while pressing the UP or DOWN arrow key will move you forward or back a page ata time PAGE 26 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Hold CMD while you press the UP arrow to go to the top of the first page of text use CMD DOWN arrow to go to the end of the last page You can move between projects explained in Chapter 8 by pressing CMD and SHIFT as you press the UP or DOWN arrow CMD PAGE UP or P
36. AGE DOWN also works Modifier key LEFT or RIGHT arrow UP_or DOWN arrow SHIFT Next start or end of line Start or end of next page CMD Command Next start or end of line Start or end of current project CMD Command SHIFT Next start or end of line Start of previous or next project Typing Titles To create a title simply type the letters They appear at the cursor s loca tion You can change the color style size etc as you go or you can type all the text and change the way it looks later Use the NEW LINE OK key to end a line of text and begin line 00K another line You can type up to 1000 characters per line It s unlikely you would ever try to type that many but if you do the memory full symbol appears to remind you to start a new line ip f you make a mistake use the DELETE key to erase the last letter To type capital letters hold the SHIFT key as you type the 4 shift letter The SHIFT key also provides punctuation marks such as m and amp PS If you want something in all capitals Our trip to NEW YORK lock CITY you can use the CAPS LOCK key Press itonce and all your typing will be in capitals press again to type lower case letters CAPS LOCK doesn t affect the number keys or punc tuation marks you must use SHIFT forthose characters even when CAPS LOCK is on A light will go on upper right hand corner of keyboard indicating CAPS LOCK is on and will go off once CAPS LOCK is pressed again
37. CH on the rear panel and the POWER key on the keyboard both turned on Are all switches set cor rectly Are all connections correct with OUTs going to INs f you see titles when you press PLAY but you never see the screen with the cursor confirm thatthere is nothing noteven an unconnected cable plugged into the PREVIEW OUT jack Try swapping cables if the problem changes when you completely ex change two cables you may have a bad cable f you are using S video connectors try temporarily using the RCA con nectors instead Jumpy or off color recordings are often caused by poor quality originals or by the use of commercially recorded videos as source material Many re cordings carry copy protection signals designed to prevent copying TitleMaker 3000 is not designed to remove copy protection signals VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 19 NESENEANEEEE Chapter 4 Connecting Editing Equipment TitleM aker 3000 is compatible with a wide range of editing equip ment such as editcontrollers video processors and video mixers It can be connected in a variety of ways depending on whatyou plan to do and whatequipmentyou have A title generator is a common part of a video editing setup This chapter describes how to connect editing equipment to TitleMaker 3000 For informa tion on how to edit using TitleMaker 3000 see Chapter 21 Editing Presenta tions and Other Applications Hint Verify that
38. CHARACTERISTICS Attributes ofa character or border or background such as color pattern boldness outline shadow CHARACTERS Letters numbers and symbols COMPOSITE VIDEO A video signal in which the luminance black and white chrominance color blanking pulses sync pulses and color burst information has been com bined NTSC PAL and SECAM are composite video standards R CA style jacks are often used for composite video signals CRAWL An effect in which characters march onto the screen in a single row from right to left CURSOR Flashing objectthatappears in the Editing Screen and shows where the next character will be typed CUT Transition effect in which a page of titles appears or disappears instantly DIGITAL A method of representing a signal using binary numbers The TitleMaker 3000 converts video sig nals into digital form and all video processing and title generation is done digitally Digital video pro vides advantages in reliability accuracy quality performance and features VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 C Glossary DURATION Length of time a page of titles will be displayed Can be zero to just under ten minutes in tenth of a second increments or can be Set to infinite EDIT See VIDEO EDITING EDIT CONTROLLER Device that controls one or two videotape ma chines to assistuser in recording desirable scenes from original tape and leaving unwanted footage behind Videonics Thumbs Up and Edit
39. Connection Diagram This diagram shows the connections for a typical titling setup The sec tions that follow provide detailed instructions oo FF PREVIEW CONTROL PORER e E Connecting Power n Connectthe power supply C to the POWER inputand plug itinto a work ing power outlet Be sure to use the power supply that came with the unit Others including the ones supplied with other Videonics products may damage the unit and void the warranty Once the power supply is connected turn on the power by pressing the POWER SWITCH D on the rear panel The power light on the front panel will go on for a moment and then go out Simultaneously you should see three lights on the keyboard upper right hand corner flash on and off Turning Power On and Off Video Pass Through and Data Protection n Toturn the uniton or off press the POWER key upper left hand corner of the keyboard The front panel light indicates that the power is on Notes When the unit has been connected to the power supply for a while it will be warm to the touch The power supply will also be warm This is normal VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 15 Whenthe powerswitch rear panel is on and the keyboard poweris turned off video is routed from the video input to the video output and no titles are added This eliminates the need to disconnectthe unit when titles are not needed you can simply turn the keyboard off and video is
40. E OK Ends a line of text and starts a new one Also accepts settings of menus returns to Editing Screen fram Page Index and Play Screens Chapter 6 LEFT and RIGHT BRACKET Use the left and right bracket to change submenus MARK START MARK END and TAB will do the same REAR PANEL H NOTE S video Y C and composite RCA style video jacks are provided Use same type for input and output for instance if your video source only has RCA jacks use RCA for both even if the recorcer has S viceo VIDEO IN Optional Connect either S video or RCA type cable fram video source B VIDEO OUT Connect either S video or RA type cable same as used for input to recorder or monitor C AUDIO IN and OUT Audio connections are provided for convenience the audio signals pass straight through without modification D PREVIEW OUT Qpotional When used in live title setup pemits you to modify titles and typing is not seen on main output Important leave unorected when nt in use Chapter 21 E CONTROL GPI Allows remote trigger of titles using switch or controller with I General Purpose Interface output ming Always tum power off before aamecting ar discarecting I jack Chapter 20 E POWER Connect TitleMaker 3000 power supply Important Do nt use power Suo plies designed for any other equipment G POWER SWITCH Controls the power supply When the POWER
41. ENT 2 SHIFT letter ACCENT 3 SPACE a 1 0 U ACCENT 3 etter A E 1 0 U ACCENT 3 SHIFT letter ACCENT 4 SPACE 6 i 6 ACCENT 4 etter A E 1 0 U ACCENT 4 SHIFT letter ACCENT 5 SPACE 6 ACCENT 5 etter A O N ACCENT 5 SHIFT letter ACCENT 6 SPACE 8 6 10 0 ACCENT 6 etter A E L O U ACCENT 6 SHIFT letter ACCENT 7 SPACE ACCENT 7 etter a A ACCENT 7 SHIFT letter a 7 ACCENT 8 SPACE 6 ACCENT 8 etter O U ACCENT 8 SHIFT letter AGES ACCENT 9 SHIFT letter a d i ACCENT 9 etter l ACCENT i ACCENT SHIFT i PAGE 30 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Chapter 7 Pages Titles are displayed as pages and pages can be managed in separate projects This chapter describes ways to manage textas pages and projects About Pages TitleMaker 3000 can hold over 16 000 characters They can be divided into pages The Play Screen shows one page ata time Text can be divided into new pages anywhere you like For instance you could have simple subtitles each on a different page resulting in multiple pages each with just a few characters Or you might have a few long pages each scrolling up the screen Long Pages Text that is typed past the edges of a page is not erased When you move the cursor pastthe edge of the screen the invisible text scrolls into view If you play a page thathas text pastthe edge of the screen the extra text will not be displayed You can
42. ENT 4 followed by SHIFT U In this list letter means the letter you want accented To Type Press Then press To Type Press Then press ACCENT 2 SPACE ACCENT 6 SPACE ACCENT 2 letter 8 6 1 0 0 ACCENT 6 letter ACCENT 2 SHIFT letter E 1 0 ACCENT 6 SHIFT letter ACCENT 3 SPACE ACCENT 7 SPACE 6 0 ACCENT 3 letter a ACCENT 7 lettera A E 1 0 U ACCENT 43 SHIFT letter A ACCENT 7 SHIFT lettera T ACCENT44 SPACE g ACCENT 8 SPACE 8 6 1 0 ACCENT44 letter 6 U ACCENT 8 letter A E i 0 0 ACCENT 4 SHIFT letter U ACCENT 8 SHIFT letter ACCENT 5 SPACE AGRE ACCENT 9 SHIFT letter ACCENT 5 letter a JEE ACCENT 9 letter AO N ACCENT 5 SHIFT letter ACCENT i ACCENT SHIFT i PAGE 90 Appendix ARROW KEYS The four arrow keys at the right side of the TitleMaker 3000 keyboard used to move the cur sor and highlights BACKGROUNDS Solid color patterns or video used behind letters BNC CONNECTOR A type of connector with twist locking capability used on some VCRs video and RF equipment BOLD Heavy characters with a wider stroke or line width BORDERS In TitleM aker 3000 lines and boxes that surround text Border lines can be in any color and in any TitleMaker 3000 pattern CAMCORDER Combination of camera and video tape recorder in one device CHARACTER GENERATOR OR CG Device used to superimpose text onto a video signal
43. ITLEMAKER 3000 no effect on titles that use the color The titles continue to use the color it is simply not displayed in the palette There is no way to manually remove a color other than completely reset ting the unit Colors are removed only after 64 user colors have been defined Hints on Using Colors As with font styles it s a good idea to exercise some restraint It s tempting to use lots of wild colors but unless your video production is as wild as the colors they may detract from the result Don t forget black white and gray With the amount of color we see every day on television black and white can be a refreshing change In addition black white and gray tend to look sharper especially for small fonts Some colors work better on television than others especially when they re recorded with a VCR For instance blue on green doesn t work well bright reds tend to smear white black and gray work well with almost every thing E xtremely bright colors may notlook as sharp when they re recorded Some background colors are noisy they give a speckled or snowy ap pearance when they re recorded by most VCRs Dark colors especially dark blue are likely to be noisy Solid red also tends to be noisy Extremely bright purples and oranges may also be a problem Medium colors are usually fine Light colors such as sky blue and black or gray backgrounds work particularly well Blackorwhite outlines or shadows
44. PAL and SECAM OUTLINE Narrow line that surrounds a character and pro vides it with an edge Useful for delineating char TELEVISION STANDARDS PAGE 91 acters to help them stand out from the back ground OUTPUT Similar to the preview in concept except that the resulting output is the final signal that goes on the air Also called program out PAGE The lines that will be displayed together when the tides are played Each page is presented with its effects then the next page is displayed etc TitleMaker 3000 allows the user to separate text into hundreds of pages PAGE INDEX Compact display that shows many pages on one screen Each line in the Page Index represents a page in the Editing Screen See EDITING SCREEN PAGE SYMBOLS Row of symbols on the Editing Screen that sepa rates pages and indicate characteristics of the page PAL PHASE ALTERNATE LINE The European color TV broadcasting standard featuring 625 lines per frame and 50 frames per second See NTSC and SECAM PATTERN In TitleMaker 3000 an array of dots lines or colors that create a pattern that can be used for backgrounds letters outlines and borders PIXEL PATTERN Pattern comprised of small dots and or lines TitleMaker 3000 patterns include star field pat terns grids and random patterns PLAY Show finished titles for display or recording PLAY SCREEN Screen that displays title pages in finished form ready for re
45. PREVIEW output When the manager presses NEW LINE OK the Editing Screen ap pears only on the PREVIEW monitor The normal output displays the sports video without titles and changes can be made privately Once the changes are complete the manager presses PLAY and the titles play as usual on all monitors Using a PREVIEW Monitor Preview is automatic If a cable is plugged into the PREVIEW OUT jack TitleMaker 3000 automatically uses it displaying the Editing Screen only on the PREVIEW monitor When you play titles they are always displayed on both screens Forcing Preview Mode You can also switch P review on and off regardless of whether the PRE VIEW OUT jack is in use by pressing CMD P PAGE 82 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Appendix A Advanced Techniques Shortcuts and CMD Command Keys Here are some hints and techniques that will become useful as you become experi enced with TitleM aker 3000 When appears between the names of two buttons press both keys atthe same time Capacity TitleMaker 3000 can hold over 16 000 characters You can check its remain ing memory capacity by pressing CMD M A number will appear on the screen It gives an idea of how much room you have left The number gets smaller as you fill memory To return to the editing screen press NEW LINE OK Each line can hold up to 1000 characters It s unlikely you would ever try to type that many but if you do the memory full symbol appea
46. T DOWN 36 71 COMMAND SHIFT MOVE 84 COMMAND SHIFT UP 36 71 COMMAND X 65 COMMAND Z 65 66 commandkeys 82 complex borders 59 composite 12 15 composite RCA style 4 concept characteristics 45 editing connections 19 menus 43 video editing 76 connecting video source 17 Videonics equipment 19 connecting monitors 15 connecting outputs 15 connection diagram 14 connections 4 11 continuous play 74 80 CONTROL GPI 16 21 77 control bars 53 copies multiple 40 COPY 33 39 copying characteristics 47 copying between projects copying demo 84 copying pages 33 copying text 39 crawl 10 60 62 crawl speed 61 creating colors 53 creating projects 35 curly quotes 28 currentdate 65 currenttime 65 cursor 5 6 25 moving 25 wide 38 custom colors 53 cuts 60 D date 65 display 31 62 67 67 68 format 65 real time 65 67 68 set 65 start 65 synchronize 65 trigger 66 text 68 dash long 28 defining colors 53 DELETE 35 38 delete 7 DELETE key 7 26 32 37 deleting 26 deleting a page 32 deleting marked text 38 deleting marks 38 deleting memory 83 deleting projects 35 demo 5 23 copying 84 copying into memory 23 international 23 84 locked 23 84 using 84 DEMO key 23 84 description 1 Digital Video Mixer 20 doubled fonts 48 doubledsize options 49 doubling horizontal 48 vertical 48 DOWN arrow 25 duration 62 71 infinite 62 durations 10 E edit controller 20 EDIT SUITE 20
47. TURATION KEY Button on the TitleMaker 3000 keyboard LETTER SPACING Amount of space used between characters Tight spacing crowds characters together loose spac ing spreads them apart LIGHTNESS One of three numbers used to define a color in TitleMaker 3000 Specifies overall lightness or darkness ranging from white to black See HUE SATURATION LINE 1 A video picture consists of an array of horizon tal lines An NTSC frame has about 525 lines a PAL frame has about 625 2 A line of text is the text that occupies one horizontal row of characters on the screen 3 Border lines are colored or patterned lines be tween alongside or around text lines MARK On screen symbols used to identify a range of text Two marks are used One denotes the start ofthe marked text one denotes the end TitleMaker 3000 permits you to copy move or delete all the marked text at once or to change its characteris tics Also used to loop play a range of pages MENU On screen display that shows available choices MENU KEYS The top row of keys on the TM 3000 used to display a menu MONITOR A television that gets its signal directly from a camera or VCR in the form of a VIDEO line signal as opposed to an RF antenna or cable TV sig nal NTSC NATIONAL COMMITTEE Standard of color TV broadcasting used mainly in the United States Canada Mexico and J apan featuring 525 lines per frame and 60 frames per second See
48. Ww VIDEONICS TitleMaker 3000 Model TM 3000 Instruction Manual TM 3000 Video TitleMaker 3000 Instruction Manual MANL 0612 02 1996 Videonics Inc The Videonics logo Thumbs Up and Videonics Video TitleMaker are registered trademarks of Videonics Inc TM 3000 MX 1 Digital Video Mixer and Edit Suite are trademarks of Videonics Inc Product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies and are hereby acknowledged Television screens are simulated Subjectto change without notice This device is notto be used for the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material Videonics Inc 1370 Dell Avenue Campbell CA 95008 USA 408 866 8300 CONTROLS o D KL LI a LL 3 SSS A caps lock Omark e LETTER D BORDERS m EFFECTS Paver BA eani 4 5 rm Ae 8 j TE TI eT Y To n Tele eel TEE Te nu 11 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 232425 1 POWER Power key turns on the keyboard once the POWER SWITCH rear panel of TM 3000 unit is in ON position DEMO Demonstrates features Press ACCENT DEMO for English version SHIFT DEMO for International version You can also copy the demo into the editing area to modify it or study how its effects were accomplished Chapter 5 2 MENU KEYS Menus chang
49. acter at the same time For instance ACCENT C indicates you press C and ACCENT together indicates that two keys are pressed together you don t push the key Capital letters are used for clarity you don t press SHIFT unless it is indicated Note TitleMaker 3000 offers curly quotes in addition to straight quotes Curly quotes look like this as opposed to straight quotes which look like this It also has the em dash a dash that is longer than a hyphen Note that the straight quotes in some fonts are actually slightly curled due to the style used by that font s designers For the degree symbol type ACCENT 7 followed by SPACE ACCENT C ACCENT R S ACCENT T C ACCENT SHIFT C ACCENT Y ae ACCENT A ACCENT 7 SPACE ACCENT U ACCENT SHIFT A ACCENT ce ACCENT 0 ACCENT E ACCENT SHIFT 0 ACCENT ACCENT 0 E ACCENT ACCENT SHIFT 0 A ACCENT fs ACCENT S 8 ACCENT F 3 ACCENT G ACCENT D H ACCENT H ACCENT u ACCENT J ACCENT n ACCENT K i ACCENT 1 n ACCENT L ACCENT 7 ACCENT M ACCENT Q E ACCENT N ACCENT W ACCENT V Y ACCENT E g ACCENT B ACCENTED CHARACTERS The accents above the 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 9 keys are used with other letters to make accented letters For instance to type you would use ACCENT 4 followed by the letter U The capitalized version would be displayed using ACC
50. aracteristics Simply mark the text and change it as described in the following chapters Note that some changes such as the use of a larger font or wider letter spacing may push characters off the screen Characters are never deleted when they are pushed out of view To bring all the characters back on screen you can choose narrower letter spacing shorten the text or break the line in two by positioning the cursor somewhere in the line and pressing the NEW LINE OK key VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 47 Copying Characteristics You can copy characteristics such as color font etc from one area of text to another Mark the text you want to change Move the cursor so it s immedi ately after a letter that has the desired characteristic Press the appropriate menu key LETTER COLOR for instance then press NEW LINE OK and the marked text will be changed to match the character before the cursor You can then use other menus to change other characteristics To change all char acteristics simply press each menu key followed by NEW LINE OK PAGE 48 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Chapter 13 Fonts Sizes and Styles TitleM aker 3000 offers a wide variety of ways to add flairto your titles You can independently change font size and style for hun dreds of combinations Fontand Size FONT FONT amp EJ sre The first menu key brings up the FONT amp SIZE menu It is used to choose the font and size thatwill be ap BODA
51. are often a good idea they separate the letters from the background making them more legible If you re using small letters it s best to use black or white whichever contrasts the most with the background VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 55 Chapter 15 Patterns With TitleMaker 3000 you re not limited to plain solid colors A variety of patterns including moving animated patterns can be used They can be colored and changed forthousands of interesting variations Finally you can mix video into the background pattern or colorfor a transparent pattern or tinted video effect You can apply patterns to your letters backgrounds outline shadows and borders Each page can use a different type and color of pattern Pattern Menus The top of each Pattern menu 1 shows four basic pattern choices Use MARK START to make the top sub menu active and use the arrow keys to select one of the pattern types The restofthe menu changes appearance somewhat adding or removing ap propriate sub menus depending on which pattern you ve selected The solid color pattern displays a solid color using whatever color you picked in the corresponding Color menu Pixel patterns are made up of dots and lines of various styles The second sub menu 2 chooses the style The Color menu affects one of the colors used in the pattern the other color is determined by the style you choose in the second sub menu Rainbow pattern
52. as you like COPY is pressed twice in the following example Mary amp Lee C Mary amp Lee amp Lee Mary amp Lee amp Lee amp Lee The Characteristics of Copied and Moved Text Suppose you copy some red textto a new location where the textis blue Will the copied text be blue or red There is an invisible NEW LINE character associated with each line It is located at the end of the previous line of text If the NEW LINE character is included in the marked text then the characteristics will move with the text f you copy part of the line but no NEW LINE characters the letters will take the characteristics of their new home In this case the text would be blue f you place the MARK START at the end of the previous line then the NEW LINE character will be included and the characteristics of the line will be copied as well In this case the resulting text would be red This applies to other characteristics as well fonts outlines borders etc VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 41 Chapter 10 Positioning Text You can automatically center each line of text or you can position it againsteitherthe rightorleftedge ofthe screen Y ou can also adjust the vertical position of the texton each page centering the text or positioning it atthe top or bottom ofthe page When you type text it automatically appears atthe center ofthe EB screen As you type more the whole block of text remains centered You can
53. ation at right SOURCE SELECT INPUT SELECT Some use a button on the remote control or an aa On screen menu to choose an external line TUNER source Others require that you choose a special channel like 99 or A1 Still others switch automatically when you plug the cable into the VIDEO IN jack n Testthe connections Turn TitleMaker 3000 the VCR s and the television or monitor on and press ACCENT DEMO You should see a series of titles with various transitions between them P ress any key to stop the demo n Connect CONTROL GP optional The CONTROL GP input allows the unit to be triggered played by edit controllers equipped with a GPI General Purpose Interface See Chapter 21 n Connect the PREVIEW monitor optional Note See Chapter 22 to determine whether you need a PREVIEW monitor Important Leave the PREVIEW OUT jack unconnected if you are notus ing a PREVIEW monitor Connecting anything even an unconnected plug to this jack enables preview mode In Preview mode the Editing Screen is notdis played on the OUTPUT monitor VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 17 ConnectTitleMaker 3000 s PREVIEW OUT to the VIDEO IN jack ofthe PREVIEW monitor using a composite RCA style cable If the monitor only has an RF cable antenna jack you will need a spare VCR or an RF modulator to convert n the RCA style output to RF A n Testthe PREVIEW connection if used Turn the PREVIEW monitor on Activa
54. ay be added to a video scene during shooting or in post production S ophisticated titling devices such as the Video TitleMaker 3000 allow the user to prepare text and graphics in various sizes fonts and colors to be triggered later one by one at appropriate places within a production VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 TRANSITION EFFECT Effects such as fade wipe slide scroll and crawl used to introduce display and remove a page of titles USER COLOR TitleMaker 3000 has 64 predefined colors that can be used for characters outlines borders and backgrounds In addition the user can define any additional colors Over a million colors can be chosen The last 64 colors a user designs are stored in the color palette along with the pre defined colors These are called user colors VIDEO BANDWIDTH The range between the lowest and highest signal frequency of a given video signal In general the higher the video bandwidth the better the quality of the picture TitleMaker 3000 has a bandwidth specification of 5 0 MHz VIDEO EDITING A procedure for copying selected portions of video footage in order to create a new combined ver sion During video editing special effects such as wipes dissolves inserts etc can be added VIDEO MIXER A device such as the Videonics Digital Video ixer used to combine video signal from two or more sources Inputs are synchronized then mixed along with various special effects patte
55. ay or recording CMD Cammand PLAY always plays fram first page in project If no text is marked PLAY displays the next page If text is marked PLAY loops through marked pages Once playing begins Press PLAY again to go to next page use SHIFT and PLAY to play backwards press arrow keys to manually Step forward or backwards NEW LINE OK ends play and returns to Editing Screen Chapter 20 X DATE CD Command X displays date menu Use to set current date display fommat and set current date Chapter 18 SPACE BAR Ads space to text Pauses the page that is playing PAGE INDEX Displays an index in which each page occupies cme line making it easy to look through all pages and projects Projects are created and named using PAGE INDEX Chapter 8 NEW PAGE Starts a new page of text CMD Command NEW PAGE starts a new project when Page Index is on screen Chapters 7 8 PLAY I tical to item 16 ARROW KEYS Use the four individual arrow keys to move the cursor on screen to change highlights in a menu and when playing text to go forward and backward SHIFT makes arrow act on one page at a time CMD Command with UP or DOWN goes to top or bottom of all text CMD Command SHIFT UP or DOWN moves you between projects Chapters 6 11 and 19 PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN Used to re position cursor a page at a time PAGE UP places cursor at the first line of the page PAGE DOWN places cursor at the last line in the page NEW LIN
56. bottom sub menu active Type in the number of the font you wish to use 01 03 44 etc and the highlight bar will move to thatselection You can also Pavel Cherenkov Karl Compton Francis rick Marie Curie VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 49 use the arrow keys to move the highlight bar 3 to the desired font To apply your choice press NEW LINE OK or PLAY Upper Case Only and Fonts and Mixed Fonts Some ofthe fonts have only upper case letters Whether you type upper or lower case letters only upper case will be displayed on the screen If you later change to a fontthathas upper and lower case the letters will appear as you typed them One font the cartoon style font contains two styles in one Its upper case characters use a heavier style than its lighter weight letters Cartoon style fonttyped as J ULIUS CAESAR as julius caesar andas ulius Caesar TULIUS CAESAR JULIUS CAESAR JULIUS CAESAR Hints on Using Fonts and Sizes Here are a few tips from the pros First note that using too many fonts and sizes can create a loud jumbled look When you watch television notice that professional productions sel dom use more than a one or two styles at once Combine fonts and sizes in a harmonious way using two sizes of one font or using distinctive styles together For example when creating cred its put the character s name in one style and the Don Miller actor s name in another The smalle
57. ces then use the copy or move capabilities to move them where you need them Use builds to tell your story A build is a series of pages each adding a point of information to the one before There is an example in the demo To create a build first create the last page the one with all the information Set it to position the titles at the top ofthe page Choose the cuteffectas both the Effect In and Effect Out Duplicate the page as many times as you have points Delete all butthe first point from the first page Delete all but the first two from the second page Continue modifying all the pages until you reach the last page which will have all the points Advanced hint Make the last point on each page the one you will be discuss ing a different color As each new point appears the previous points will be in the same color and only the newly appearing point will use the new color When your titles are complete videotape them for future use after the titles have been removed from the unit The tape is also a good safety net al though it is unlikely TitleM aker 3000 will lose titles itis wise to have a backup plan justin case When you turn off the unit always wait until the power light is out before you turn the POWER SWITCH off or unplug the unit This minimizes the chance of accidentalloss Good presentation material techniques are especially important when using video It is important to use large fonts Keep the
58. changes depending on whether the text is positioned atthe top bottom or center ofthe page The next symbol C shows the EFFECT IN that has been selected This effect will introduce the page when it s played The next symbol D shows the duration of the page how long it will be displayed when you press PLAY If the page is set for infinite duration scroll or crawl a symbol is displayed here instead of a number The next symbol E indicates the EFFECT OUT Thelastsymbol F indicates whether time date or both are to be displayed after the text on the page and it s horizontal position on the page Navigating Pages and Projects with the Page Index With the ability to create hundreds of pages comes a problem How do you find a particular page efficiently ei Bs Julius Caesar TitleMaker 3000 includes a P age Index M2 Vacation Video that lists all pages in a condensed fez E1 TorontoUacation form and makes it easy to move the H2 H2 11 10793 Ms 778 94 cursor to the desired page Press PAGE INDEX and a Page er mT Index screen appears M P o P E S Each page appears as a single line Ms Bs v Asquez2 54 9 beginning with the project symbol the project number the page symbol and the page number The rest of the line contains as much of the text from the page as will fit All pages and all projects are listed in order The cursor shows the current page Use the arrow keys to find any page As in t
59. cording or display POST PRODUCTION All editing done after the video footage has been recorded E diting titling special effects insertion image enhancement enriching fine tuning and other production tasks are done during post pro duction PREVIEW In TitleMaker 3000 an output that allows the op erator to create and edit titles outofthe audience s view The regular output carries the untitled video input while the operator edits the titles When titles are played both outputs carry the titled video PROGRAM See OUTPUT PAGE 92 PROJECT The memory of TitleMaker 3000 can be divided into any number of projects Projects keep titles separate One project can be modified without affecting others and text can be copied and moved between projects RAINBOW PATTERN Pattern composed of color gradients RCA CONNECTOR A type of jack used on consumer VCRs and camcorders to carry composite video signals REAL TIME CLOCK An effect in which a running clock calendar is capable of being superimposed over all back ground possibilities including live video RECORDER VCR connected to TitleMaker 3000 output used to record titles RESOLUTION A measure of the ability to reproduce detail Gen erally referred to as horizontal resolution and evaluated by establishing the number of horizon tal lines which are clearly discernible on a test pattern In TitleMaker 3000 the term refers to the fineness of the characters an
60. cts are possible experiment Choose narrow spacing to squeeze more letters on a line or give a busy high tension look Use wider spacing to convey a more relaxed tone and make the titles easier to read You can widen the spacing even more by typing one or more spaces between each letter VIDEONICS VIDEONICS VIDEONIC S V IDEON C S PAGE 52 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Chapter 14 Colors TitleM aker 3000 provides over a million colors In a gaudy mood You can use rainbow letters with blue outlines on a red tinted video background with green and white pattemed borders Letters backgrounds outlines and borders can be independently colored The colors can be combined with patterns including your moving video Each line of text can use different colors and each page can use different background and border colors Color Menus 77 BACKGROUND There are four Color menus one each for letters outlines borders and backgrounds All work the same way Aboutthe Color Palette The simplest way to choose a color is to use the palette of sample colors 1 atthe bottom of the Color menu Each Color menu shows the same colors The palette list repeats af ter the last color the top of the list reappears You can reach any color by moving up or down Triangular pointers highlight the current choice and it is also shown in the sample patch 3 in the middle of the screen The swatches in the palette change as you u
61. d Pattern You can mix video into a background pattern 3 on the previous page blending both images on the screen This creates a transparent effectas ifthe pattern were a see through filter over your video To do this use the video mixing control in the Background Pattern menu This control doesn t appear on other Pattern menus E The position of the diamond shaped marker determines how video and pattern are mixed in the background When the marker is to the left the pat tern is opaque with no video As it moves to the right more video is added and the pattern is gradually removed until at the far right the background is all video with no pattern Hints on Using Patterns Important Rainbow patterns are very bright and should be used sparingly Some video equipment may react to the brighter patterns If you encounter undesired fringing or overly bright colors try mixing the rainbow pattern with video see Mixing Video into a Background Pattern above or choose the more subdued patterns such as numbers 4 5 and 11 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 57 When using complex patterns pay special attention to the choice of font style and size to avoid making the titles hard to read Note that complex patterns may not be apparent when used as outlines or shadows Try applying a rainbow pattern to the letters ortheiroutlines Because each letter covers only a portion of the rainbow pattern it will look as if each letter i
62. d and back as up and down use the UP and DOWN keys If you think ofthem as rightand left use those keys instead PAGE 74 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Continuous Play Video Billboard You can play all the screens in sequence again and again like a slide pro jector with a circular tray and an automatic timer This makes TitleM aker 3000 into an automatic video billboard useful for point of purchase display cable television stations hotel lobbies bars or any other application that requires a running program of video titles To do this use MARK START and MARK END to mark a selection of text Then press PLAY The marked pages will play over and over Any page with infinite duration will cause display to stop at that page until PLAY is pressed Hint To continuously play allthe pages hold CMD as you press MARK START followed by MARK END to markallthe pages This marks allthe pages in the project Then press PLAY Be careful when you have pages marked because you can make unintended global changes easily Press UNDO immediately Leaving Play to Edit Again To stop playing pages press NEW LINE OK and the screen you were us ing when you pressed PLAY the Editing Screen or the Page Index screen reappears The cursor is located on the page you were viewing You can also end play with the cursor located where it was before you pressed PLAY To do this press UNDO instead of NEW LINE OK VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 75 Chapter 21
63. d determines how smooth they are TitleMaker 3000 has high reso lution with a specification of 720x480 in NTSC or 720x580 in PAL 70 ns SATURATION One of three numbers used to define a color in TitleMaker 3000 Specifies strength of color rang ing from pale to colorful See HUE LIGHTNESS SCROLL An effect in which a page of titles slides smoothly on to the screen from the bottom continuing to slide up until all the titles slide off the top of the screen See SLIDE and CRAWL SECAM SEQUENTIAL COULEUR A MEMORIE The video standard used mainly in France East ern Europe Russia and surrounding countries In countries using the SECAM standard most video production is done using PAL and converted to SECAM prior to transmission MESECAM is a very similar format used in some Middle East countries See NTSC and PAL SHADOW Boundary around a character which is wider in one direction to convey the impression of a shadow making the character look three dimen sional SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO S N The ratio in decibels dB of an audio or video signal from the signal s maximum peak to peak voltage to the measured voltage in absence of a signal VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 In video the higher the ratio the less snow is visible In audio the higher the ratio the cleaner the sound TitleMaker 3000 has a very low noise signal with a specification of 60 dB SLIDE Effect in which a page of titles slides on or off t
64. d the up arrow to move the curser back to the first page and pressed PLAY This produces the following Editing Screen and Play Screens wE Kelk wE Heek Rit S1em Play Sen Ry 1 Play 2an Ry 2 Page Symbols A row of page symbols divides one page fram the next These are described in detail in Chapter 7 Briefly The first two synbols and their numbers identify which page this is and to which project described in Chapter 8 it belongs The next symbols tell which effect will be used to introduce the page how it will be displayed and which effect will be used to end its display Projects You can create separate popts Chapter 8 Each project has its own pages which are protected fram alteration while you are working on another project This way several people can use the same unit or one person can work on The PAGE INDEX key is used to access projects It displays all the pages in all the projects By moving the cursor up and down through the Page Index screen you can begin work on any page in any project Press NEW LINE OK to retum to the Editing Screen Entering Text To create a title simply type sare letters and they will appear at the cursor s location VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 7 To type a capital letter hold SHIFT as you type Press CAPS IOCK to type all capital letters keyboard IED will P light Press it again to type in nmal upper and lower AA shift case keyboard IED will go out To ty
65. e Some fonts have only capital letters and produce capital letters with or without SHIFT or CAPS LOCK e If this symbol appears when you type memory is full or the line or page is full You will be un I able to add more textunless you erase othertex mem 90K Press CMD M atany time while in the editing screen to see how much memory is left VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 27 Columns Tabs The TAB key is a smart tab designed to make it easy to create columns of information It works by aligning with the next blank space in the previous line of text Example Type a line of text using spaces to separate the words Name Age Address Now press NEW LINE OK and type a second line using the TAB key between words Each TAB will cause the next word to begin where a word above it begins Name Age Address J ules 11 1406 Windmere You may need to make adjustments For instance if a word aligns itself to the wrong blank space you may need to add more TABs You can also add and remove spaces and blank lines to adjustthe appearance Notes When you add a tab to a line the line is automatically left positioned as if you had pressed POSN Position followed by the LEFT arrow Tabs are notautomatically adjusted when you edita line You may need to add tabs or spaces to realign the columns Tabs are based only on the line immediately before the line that contains the cursor Typing Special and Accented Characters
66. e TitleM aker 3000 with messages like Business Effectiveness Seminar Ballroom G At dinnertime the hotel manager changes the titles to advertise the restaurantspecials P rime R ib S pecial today in the Mezzanine Grill Another example is the use of TitleMaker 3000 for business presentations Instead of using transparencies or charts you can create titles using the colors back VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 3 grounds effects and other features to emphasize the important points and make the presentation dynamic and exciting Y ou can also use the superimpose feature to combine the presentation with video footage such as shots of a new productor ofthe factory sites Equipment Your Video TitleMaker Package comes with TM 3000 Unit Keyboard Power supply This manual Product registration card You may need to purchase cables to connect audio and video equipment to the TitleMaker Y our Videonics dealer can help you identify the cables you need PAGE 4 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Chapter 2 QuickStart Whether you re a video expert looking for justthe basic steps ora beginner who wants instant gratification this chapter will have you titling in minutes This chapter describes just the basics Many features and applications are skipped or mentioned only briefly For more information or if you encounter problems refer to the table of contents or the index to locate a more complete discussion elsewhere in th
67. e color font style etc of lines or pages that oontain marked text or cursor Use either MARK START MARK END TAB or the bracket keys ad to change suodrenus arrow keys to highlight the desired choice and NEW LINE OK or PLAY to implement changes Press UNDO to cancel the menu and leave titles unchanged Chapters 11 18 3 POSITION LIGHT Used in conjunction with the POSN key 10 Indicates that page or line positioning may be done see POSN key 4 COPY and MOVE To copy or move text mark the text using MARK START and MARK END move cursor to desired location then press COPY or MOVE Chapters 7 9 5 CAPS LOCK LIGHT When the CAPS LOCK light is on typing a letter key A Z causes the SHIFTed version to appear Other keys numbers symbols etc are unaffected Press the CAPS LOCK key to turn the CAPS LOCK light on and off 6 MARK LIGHT Indicates that the mark function has been enabled i e MARK START or MARK END has been pushed 7 MARK START ad MARK END Mark text to modify delete copy or move it Posi tion cursor before first character and press MARK SIART Position after last character and press MARK END Notice cursor becames wider to remind you something is marked Use UNDO to remove marks SHIFT used with a mark key marks start or end of the page COMMAND plus a mark key marks start or end of all text in current project Chapters 7 9 8 UNDO If you accidentally delete samething press UNDO immediatel
68. e manual Typical TitleM aker 3000 connection Connections Rear Panel Connect the power supply C to a working wall outlet and connect the other end to TitleMaker 3000 s POWER jack Connect TitleMaker 3000 s OUT jacks to the VIDEO and AUDIO IN jacks of a VCR B Connect a television or monitor to the VCR in the normal fashion so you can see the WR s output Leave the PREVIEW OUT jack unconnected unless you are using a PREVIEW monitor Chapter 22 Turn the television and VCR on Connect a camcorder VCR or other source A to TitleMasker 3000 s video and audio jacks if you plan to superimpose titles over video Tum on the video source and start the tape rolling Note The illustratian shows the use of amposite RZ style jacks for the vido oomectians You can use Svid YC jacks instead It is important to use the sare type of jacks for the ineut and the output In other words if your ipt is amnected via the S vicbo jack the output should also use S vicbo if it uses the composite jack the output should use amposite too An on screen warning will alert you if you atteypt to use the S vidso output and anposite ipt Note The audio omnectims are for convenience aly the audio signals are not affected by te unt Keyboard Connect the keyboard to the jack on TitleMaker 3000 s front panel VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Power POWER DEMO PAGE 5 On Off There is a power switch on
69. e text Adding a border line below one text line is the same as adding a border line above the following text line Hint If you would like two border lines a double line cre Tm Jupiter Capitolinus ate a blank line of titles Add a anette Capitolinus p P border line below the new empty Lucius Verus iN line Add a border line below the Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius text line above it This trick places a line above and below the blank line Y ou can change the distance between the two border lines by changing the fontand size ofthe blank text line which changes its height Side Bars You can also place bars on the sides of text using the side symbol D Complex Borders Whenever you change a border style the new style replaces any borders already in place Y ou can create some interesting border patterns 1 Simple box Mark text using MARK START and END and add the box border style 2 Box with lines inside Create a box as inl rz 1 heer Remove the marks by pressing UNDO and Def Def Def place the cursor on the second line inside the cri Ghi _Ghi box Add the box border style Repeat for a o each line in the box 3 Box plus lines Add a blank line above and below the box Set the blank lines to the smallest Font amp Size Add a border line below the blank text line above the box Add a border line above the one below the box 4 Lines Mark text including the line of text following the last line Add a b
70. e titing projects E ach projectis stored inde pendently and can be changed withoutaffecting other projects About Projects With its ability to hold over 16 000 characters and retain them even when power is disconnected TitleMaker 3000 can hold the titles for many different titling tasks atonce Projects provide a convenient way to keep each job s titles separate A project is simply a collection of pages Each project is independent you can make changes in one project withoutthe danger of accidentally eras ing or changing titles that are in another project Projects can have any num ber of pages or text characters and there is no fixed limit to the number of projects You can have many small projects one large one or anything in between Projects can be named to make it easy to remember which projectis foreach use Examples of How Projects are Used Projects are a convenient way to store titles for multiple jobs For example an event videographer shoots two weddings and a party and is editing all three in one week Making each eventinto a separate project makes iteasy to avoid editing the wrong titles especially if some pages are similar You can set up a project to store some standard text you expect to use often such as an introduction page you use on all your productions You can use projects to share the unit with other users by keeping each person s work in different projects Example A language lab has a TitleMake
71. ed page Marc Chagall Marc Chagall Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Francois Boucher Francois Boucher Piet Mondrian Piet Mondrian Ifnothing is marked deleting justthe page symbolline will merge the two pages If you delete something accidentally remember that UNDO restores the lastthing you deleted as long as itis pressed immediately after the deletion Inserting a Page To add a new page or divide a page into two pages position the cursor at the desired location and press NEW PAGE A new set of page symbols will appear at that point and the new page will inherit the characteristics of the page before it You can then change the characteristics of either page VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 33 Moving and Copying Pages You can move or copy entire pages Mark all the texton the page including the page symbols In other words position the cursor at the very end of the page before the one you want to copy or move and press MARK START position it atthe end of the page and press MARK END Then move the cur sor to the desired location and press COPY or MOVE To copy a series of pages pages two through five for example position the cursor at the end of page one and press MARK START Then position the cursor at the end of page five and press MARK END Move the cursor to the new location and press COPY or MOVE PAGE 34 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Chapter 8 Projects You can setup separat
72. ed text PAGE 46 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 wE Kiek LE Jerry Uels mann Notexthas been marked so the fontand colorchange is applied only to the line thatcontains the cursor Note In the Editing Screen several pages can appear on the screen atonce The background and borders of the entire screen will always be displayed using justone setof patterns and colors the ones used by the page that contains the cursor even ifthe other pages are defined using different patterns and colors As you move the cursor to a different page that page s pattems and colors will be used by the entire Screen When PLAY is used to display the actual titles each page will use its own pat terns and colors Choosing Characteristics Before or After Typing the Text There are two ways to create text with the characteristics you desire You can choose the characteristics and then type new text The characteris tics are automatically applied as you type e You can type the text first and change its characteristics later New Lines and Pages Inherit Characteristics When you create a new line it has all the characteristics of the previous line color font style etc Similarly a new page has the characteristics of the previous page effects background pattern and color etc In other words all newly typed items inheritthe characteristics of the char acter before the cursor Changes Itis notnecessary to retype text to change ch
73. editing screen without mak ing any changes e Another menu key to make the indicated changes and immedi ately move to another menu to make additional changes VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 45 Chapter 12 How Characteristics Affect Text Some characteristics affectlines and others affect pages This chapter describes whatis affected and gives strategies for efficiently creating titles with the characteristics you desire Concept The term characteristics refers to all the ways titles can be modified font colors effects scrolling etc Line and page position are defined using the POSN key Chapter 10 All other characteristics are defined using menus Chapters 11 17 How Characteristics Affect Lines and Pages Changes to Pattern Background and Effect menus always affect the entire page Colorchanges to the border and background also affect the entire page Allotherchanges affectthe entire line You cannot mix colors styles etc on a line Ifyou have used the MARK keys to mark some text changes to character istics will affect all lines that contain any of the marked text f no text has been marked then changes affect just the line or page that contains the cursor Examples iB E EHE Alfred Stileglitz Harold Edgerton Texthas been marked so the fontand colorchange is applied to alllines that contain marked text The line thatcontains the cursoris unchanged since it contains no mark
74. eleted the next time you display then exit the Page Index screen unless you exit into the empty project Naming a Project Projects can be named Names can act as a reminder of the purpose of a project They are especially handy when you have many projects with similar contents iB 2 Vacation Video To add aname position the cursor within the brackets that follow the project number in the first line of the project Type the desired name Names can be 20 characters long and can contain any characters You can change a project name using the cursor and the normal editing functions Names appear only in the Page Index only the projectnumbers are shown in the Editing Screen Removing a Projector Erasing its Contents To delete a project display the project using the E dit ant 0K ing Screen Press CMD SHIFT DELETE A warning ii E symbol appears to warn you the project is about to be discarded Press NEW LINE OK to confirm this is what you wantto do press UNDO if you change your mind You can delete all the titles in a project without removing the project Mark all text press CMD MARK START followed by CMD MARK END and PAGE 36 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 press DELETE This leaves the project empty If you have notnamed the now empty project it will be deleted the next time you leave the Page Index screen But if ithas been named it will be saved until you explicitly delete it or delete its name and exit page index
75. es of titles with pre defined durations and effects and have an external controller trigger each new page as the production is assembled E dit controllers such as Videonics Thumbs Up or Edit Suite are equipped with a GPI output that will trigger TitleMaker 3000 Warning Always turn off power before plugging anything into the GPI jack GPI Cable A special cable is required You can buy a Thumbs Up or Edit Suite to TitleMaker GPI trigger cable from Videonics part number CBLA 0041 01 or you can buy ormake your own The cable has a stereo male 3 5 mm mini plug at each end and three wires connect each terminal of one plug to the corre sponding terminal of the other For other controllers you will have to make your own cable using a stereo male 3 5 mm mini plug at one end Wire the tip and base not the middle ring to the two wires of your GPI trigger source You can also wire a push button switch to the GPI input to remotely trig ger titles as described in Chapter 21 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 23 Chapter 5 Using the Demo The built in demo is a convenient way to learn whatthe unitcan do Using the Demo To display TitleM aker 3000 s built in demo simultaneously press the AC CENT key and the DEMO key The OUTPUT monitor will display a series of tides that describe the unit s features and applications and demonstrates the kind of effects you can generate Press any key to end the demo Running the demo does noterase a
76. evices Chapter 4 describes how to buy or make one For detailed instructions using the Videonics Edit Suite as an automatic trigger with TitleMaker 3000 consult the Edit Suite user manual Chapter 5 Here s how to automatically trigger titles using Videonics Thumbs Up First you will need to connect the GP I jacks together using the appropriate cable Chapter 4 Warning Always turn off power before plugging anything into GPI jack As you mark scenes press the T button where titles are to be triggered You can trigger titles anywhere in the middle of a scene Setup your titles page by page remembering to insert a blank page with VIDEO background anywhere you want titles to disappear When Thumbs Up creates the production it sends a GPI trigger event to the TitleMaker at the moments you indicated This triggers the next page of titles exactly as if you pressed PLAY atthatinstant The Thumbs Up manual provides more detail PAGE 78 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Presentations Whether you are trying to demonstrate teach or persuade video is a very effective medium The built in battery backup in TitleMaker 3000 means you can create a set of titles at home then carry the unit anywhere you need to present You can use projects to make multiple presentations on the same trip or to share one unit with other users Hints Copy the demo into the Editing Screen and use it as a starting point Find interesting sequen
77. ext then ad justing the position Any page that contains any marked text will be changed Additional Positioning Hints You can fine tune the horizontal positioning by adding spaces to the front of each line or using tabs see the section Tabs in Chapter 6 You can fine tune the vertical position on a page by adding blank lines to the page press NEW LINE OK a number of times Since the height of a line is determined by font and size you can further fine tune vertical positioning by changing the font and size of the blank lines VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 43 ae a Chapter 11 How to Use Menus Fonts colors and other characteristics are defined using menus which show all the available choices Concept RN P EFFECTS Ed E Je E EE The keys in the top row are called menu keys because when you press one you see a menu on the screen Like the menuin a restaurant TitleM aker 3000 menus are simply lists of what s available In this menu for example you can choose the style of your titles shadow outline bold and letter spacing Note that you choose from actual examples ofthe style rather than abstract names Sub menus Video TitleMaker Menus may contain sub menus which Wegen show additional choices or alternate ways of D EXUERUUEUER E making a choice In the menu shown in the il UE lustration there are three sub menus The top p fdeeTieMaker sub menu is used to add outlines or shadows wealth t
78. ge press NEW PAGE but don t type anything on this page Set its background to VIDEO Press NEW PAGE again and type the next titles When you play these pages the first tiles appear then transition to the blank page Since this page is empty and the background is plain video the resultis thatthe titles simply go away The next page can then introduce more titles You can change the duration of each page to control when it appears and disappears or you can play the pages manually Chapter 20 to introduce them on cue Add effects to these pages fades wipes scrolls and slides to add interest to the titles as they come and go VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 71 Chapter 20 Playing Pages You can play pages many ways Like a VCR TitleM aker 3000 al lows you to play pages oftitles in forward orreverse atvarious speeds After you have created and edited your titles using the Editing Screen you are ready to play them P laying titles displays the titles you have typed on the screen with the backgrounds effects positioning and other details you have selected The resulting titles can be recorded or displayed TitleMaker 3000 provides many ways to play titles You can play auto matically or manually in forward or reverse You can play some pages or all of them You can even play a series of pages repeatedly to create an eye catching video billboard This chapter describes the different methods Projects Titles are always p
79. hapter 11 How to Use Menus 43 COT GE iit edat 43 Sub menus sss 4143 Highlights and Choices 43 Using the Menus 44 Chapter 12 How Characteristics Affect Text 45 CO TC eDim te teet petere 45 How Characteristics Affect kines and Pages icri 45 Contents Changes iaceat 46 Copying Characteristics sss 47 Chapter 13 Fonts Sizes and Styles 48 Font and Size tossina 48 Upper Case Only and Fonts and Mixed Fonts 49 Hints on Using Fonts and Sizes 49 BONES CY lO s nette 25 0 Hints on Using Styles sss 51 Chapter 14 Colors sssss 52 Color Menus tiet Using the User Colors A Hints on Using Colors Chapter 15 e Patterns nosses 55 Pattern Metis terrre 555 Selecting Different Rainbow and Pixel Patterns ssse 56 Mixing Video into a Background Pattern 56 Hints on Using Patterns sss 56 Chapter 16 Borders 58 Border Style Menu Complex Borders Removing borders Chapter 17 Effects Scrolls and Crawls 60 Page Symbols niriana 60 Effects Menus Transition Effects Cuts Fades Slides and Wipes Slide Notes Choosing a Transition Effect Setting the Transition Speed 62 Displaying the Page 02 Setting Duration sss 62 Infinite Duration e 63 Scroll and Crawl 4 63 Scroll and Crawl Notes 63 Hints on Using Effects sss 64 Chapter 18 Clock and Date Features 6
80. he screen in any of four directions A slide starts off the screen and stops when itis fully on the screen or it starts on the screen and slides completely off See SCROLL and CRAWL SNOW A general term used to describe interference in a video image It manifests as random colored or black and white dots SPACING See LETTER SPACING STYLE Any of several characteristics that can be as signed to characters In TitleMaker 3000 these include outline shadow letter spacing and bold SUB MENUS Portions of a menu Each sub menu is used to define a different characteristic or to provide an other way to set characteristics MARK START MARK END TAB and left or right brack ets make different sub menus active SUPERIMPOSE To place in front of video e g placing text over a video signal S VIDEO Abbreviation for Super Video this term describes a video system which transmits the chrominance color and luminance black and white informa tion over separate conductors to minimize color ringing dot crawl and other artifacts of color and black and white interaction TEXT OB ECT Numbers treated as text on a line able to be ormatted font size like text TIMED TRIGGER Plays a project ata pre determined date and time set internally from the CMD Z menu TITLE GENERATOR TITLER Device such as TitleMaker 3000 used to gener ate video titles TITLING The addition of text to a video image Titles m
81. he Editing Screen you can move quickly through the pages Press PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN and the cursor will jump a full screen ata time You can perform the same function by Holding SHIFT while you press the arrow keys Hold CMD while you press the arrows to move between projects Press NEW LINE OK to exit the Page Index and return to the Editing Screen PAGE 32 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Deleting a Page To delete an entire page and its contents use the Editing Screen to locate the page Position the cursor after the very last character of the previous page and press MARK START Position the cursor after the last character of the page you want to delete and press MARK END This marks the entire page including the page symbols at the page s start Press DELETE Remember thatas a safeguard in order to delete marked text the cursor must be located just after one of the marks Marc Chagall Marc Chagall Jackson Pollock Andy Wa rhol Francois Boucher Piet Mondrian Francois Boucher Piet Mondrian Ifanentire pageis marked DELETE willerase page andits contents To delete a set of page symbols merging the two pages don t mark any text Position the cursor just before the first character after the page symbols and press DELETE The page symbols will be deleted and the pages will merge The page characteristics background color effects etc ofthe page that pre ceded the symbols will be applied to the new combin
82. ideo from more than one source A video mixer is used to combine the video sources to use fades wipes and other effects to transition between sources As with a single source you can connect a titler before or after the mixer 1 C aas sete po li B8 mii sees N ge Bessa ooo Ex E ES omma Beal i EE Edd BS Generally the most flexible arrangement is to connect TitleMaker 3000 between the mixer and the recorder 2 This arrangement has an important advantage Titles can be superimposed over the mixed signal For instance you could have a wipe from source B to source C and have titles superim posed over the entire transition rather than just having the titles atop either B or C You may use the titler as a separate input 1 The advantage of this ar rangementis that the mixer s effects can be used on the titles Of course you can use multiple TitleM aker 3000s connecting one titler to the input and one to the output GPI Control If you want to trigger a project which contains just titles you can use TitleMaker 3000 s internal time trigger See Chapter 18 If you want to trig ger the titles with other equipment you will have to use a GPI cable PAGE 22 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 TitleMaker 3000 is equipped with a CONTROL input As explained in Chapter 21 Editing Presentations and Other Applications this allows you to set up pag
83. ing arxr 1 Press POWER once ar twice if the arso is not displayed The cursor indicates where characters you type will appear Page symbols 2 amp scribed later separate pages of titles Type save titles They appear at the cur Sor location Press either of the two PLAY keys on the keyboard when you are fin ished The Editing Screen disappears and the finished titles fill the screen Cagratu lations you have created your first titles Press NEW LINE OK to return to the Edit ing Screen AE KeA The Editing Screen and the Play Screen You have just seen how the screen changes appearance depending on whether you are creating titles or displaying them The Hitting Sen the one with the cursor is used to create or change titles The Play Saem shows just the titles with no cursor or other items It is the screen you use to display and record the ompleted titles PAGE 6 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 HE Melk Rit Sen Ply Sen The PLAY key is used to go fran the Editing Screen to the Play Screen NEW LINE CK or any letter key goes back to the Editing Screm fran the Play Screen You can recognize the Editing Screen by the flashing cursor and the page synbols Pages Titles are divided into pags A page is a full screen of titles You create a new page by pressing the NEW PAGE key In this example we typed Sherlock Holmes then pressed NEW PAGE then typed 221B Baker Street We then use
84. ints sss 85 Appendix B FontListing 86 Character Setanta 86 Font Sample 81 88 SPECIAL CHARACTERS 89 ACCENTED CHARACTERS sss 89 AppendixC Glossary 90 93 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 1 Chapter Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of Videonics TiteMaker 3000 With TitleM aker 3000 you can add brilliant full color titles to all your videos Its wide choice offonts sizes styles colors borders backgrounds fades wipes scroll crawl and more make the TitleM aker 3000 a creative tool for anyone who uses video In a Hurry If you wantto get started quickly see the Quick Start section Chapter 2 Helpful Hints TitleMaker 3000 is a sophisticated video production tool Some ofthe words and concepts used in this manual may be new to you Specialized terms indi cated by italics are defined in the Glossary section of this manual You can find complete descriptions of titling concepts and techniques as they apply to TitleMaker 3000 by referring to the Table of Contents and the Index For More Information Send in your registration card so we can keep you informed of new de velopments and send you our newsletter Note that Videonics does not sell its mailing list Your name and address will remain confidential Whatis a Video Titler A titler also called a title generator character generator or CG creates letters and numbers characters on a video signal
85. its character 30 line 30 ine above 59 ine below 59 LINE TUNER switch 16 ive tiles 80 ocked demo 23 84 ong dash 28 ong pages 30 ooped play 72 74 80 owercase 26 M majorchanges 37 manual play 72 MARKEND 38 43 MARK light37 43 MARK START 37 43 marking text 37 marks 37 removing 38 memory 40 82 clearing 83 memory capacity 82 memory full 26 82 memory full symbol 26 menu 7 menukeys 7 43 menus 43 44 merging pages 32 mixed fonts 49 monitor 12 monitor input switch 16 MOVE 33 39 moving between projects moving cursor 25 moving pages 33 moving projects 36 moving text 39 moving the cursor 6 multiple copies 40 multiple source editing 21 N naming projects 35 navigating pages 31 NEW LINE OK 6 NEW LINE OK key 26 NEW PAGE 30 NEW PAGE key 6 newsletter 1 noisy colors 54 numbered fonts 48 0 OUT jacks 15 outline color 52 outlines 50 output 11 OUTPUT monitor 12 16 overscan 17 P page adding 33 copying 33 moving 33 PAGE DOWN 7 25 31 43 52 Page Index 31 PAGE INDEX key 6 31 Pagelndexscreen 35 page number 31 pagesymbols 6 25 31 60 PROF UP 7 25 31 43 5 pages 6 30 rapidaccess 31 palette 52 pattem see through 69 transparent 69 Pattern menus 55 patterns 55 see through 56 transparent 56 pause 67 picture centering 17 pixel patterns 55 PLAY 10 play 10 71 PLAY key 5 PLAY Screen 71 Play Screen 5 playing allpages 71 playing backwards 72 playing continuou
86. ker Video TitleMaker eMaker Outlines and Shadows The top section of the FontStyle menu deter 4 5 6 mines whether the titles are plain or have a shadow or outline An outline 5 is an edge that completely en closes the letter 4 A shadow 6 is similarto an outline exceptthatitis slightly wider below and to the left of the letter giving the letter a raised look The shadow is a subtle effect providing a slight separation between the letters and the background All shadowed letters also have an outline that is a thin outline surrounds the letter and a slightly broader shadow appears to the left and below Special note Font number 1 treats outline and shadow differently When outline is selected a block ef Nicrosorium Pteropus fect is produced in which each letter Ludwigia Repens is Surrounded by box You can use the Limnophilo Aquat ica Outline Color menu to change the color of the boxes The block effect is only available with this font and the font does not have the capability of producing ordinary outlines This font and effect work particularly well in doubled sizes Spacing The middle section of the Font Style menu lets you adjust the spacing be tween the letters VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 51 Bold The bottom sub menu provides bold characters to provide extra empha sis You can also create an extra bold effect using the outline styles as de scribed in the hints below Hints on Using St
87. l demo and the unit will create a new project that contains the dem text This allows you to see how the demo was created More Refer to the index and table of contents to find detailed sections which explain how to Create projects Move between pages or projects Use the Page Index Use a PREVIEW monitor to hane titles out of the audience s view Add borders lines and boxes to your video pages Mark large blocks of text so you can move or copy them without typing Use effects such as wipes between pages and set durations so pages are displayed for a pre defined time Cabine scroll and crawl to move titles on and off the screen in many different ways Play pages in many ways such as manually backwards autamatically repeating etc Use TitleMaker 3000 with editing equipment Choose colors and define your own colors Create transparent background patterns and colors Add real time time date display features to your video pages Play projects autaratically at a specified date and tire VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 11 Chapter 3 Connections Connections Overall Concept The first diagram 1 shows a typical video production setup TitleMaker 3000 is connected between a video source A which plays the picture to which you will add titles and a recorder C which will record the results Some common variations 1 The diagram shows a camcorder A as the video source Other sources
88. layed from the current project To play titles from a dif ferent project you must switch projects by pressing CMD PAGE UP or CMD PAGE DOWN until you see the project you want to play As described in Chapter 18 a project can be triggered internally to play at a specified date and time Important Concepts fany pages are marked the PLAY key plays those pages over and over again If no pages are marked play starts with the page that contains the cursor and continues until the last page in the project is played Pages are played using the durations effects and other choices you setup when you created the titles Each page will appear for the amount of time you specified using the duration option in the Effects In menu Chapter 17 The effects you specified will be used to transition between pages If you chose infinite duration for a page the page remains displayed until PLAY is pressed again PLAY works the same way whether you start from the Editing Screen or from the Page Index screen Playing All Pages The easiest way to play all pages in a project is to gt press CMD and PLAY at the same time CMD PLAY PLAY ignores marks and the cursor location It plays all pages starting with page one using the effects and durations you have defined PAGE 72 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Playing Some Pages To start playing from any page be sure no text is marked press UNDO if there are marks Position the cursor on
89. le A shows a typical internal trigger setting for project 1 to play at 3PM on 08 31 96 To turn the internal trigger off highlight the ON OFF symbol and press the up or down arrow keys or F OFF Repeating Triggers You can make the timed trigger automatically repeat the trigger event ev ery hour every day etc To do this use wild card characters for some of the digits in the time and date The wild card character is the asterisk The requested project is triggered when the time and date set equal the actual time and date wild card characters match any digit For instance if the tens digit of the hours setting is a wild card a trigger will occur every ten hours Examples Every Minute Every Hour 00 Every Day 1st of each Month 01 On the Hour Everyday 00 amp At 10 PM Everyday 22 00 amp To use wild card characters place asterisks Shift 8 within the time and or date you type in In example B project 2 is triggered to play once every hour on 08 31 96 In example C project 3 is triggered to play every minute on the first day of each month in the year of 1996 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 67 Internal Timed Trigger Notes When setting the time for the internal timed trigger the format is always entered in 24 hour time and the date is always entered in MMDDYY for mat regardless of which format you use for the displayed clock The
90. line is copied or moved the character istics will come along Hint To mark all the texton a page press SHIFT while you press MARK START fol lowed by SHIFT MARK END To mark all text on all pages press CMD as you press MARK START followed by CMD MARK END Deleting Marked Text In this example the cursoris located in the word Marion and the word Watson is marked Because the MARK START symbol 1 is located on the previous line the NEW LINE after Miller is included within the marked selection If this selection is copied the color and other characteristics of the Watson line will be copied Press DELETE immediately after marking text and the marked text will disappear To prevent accidental erasure the cursor must be located just after one of the marks If you accidentally press DELETE press UNDO immediately and the text will be restored Replacing Marked Text To replace a block of text with something new mark the text and delete it as described above The cursor will remain where the deleted text was so you can type something new to replace it VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 39 Moving and Copying Text Suppose you want to move some text elsewhere on the screen Or you d like to copy some textso itappears in two or more places Or you d like some thing to appear many times on a page You could retype it but fortunately there s an easier way Markthe text as described previously Be s
91. lines that contain the marked text To Mark Text Position the cursor just before the first letter 1 2 3 you plan to change Press MARK START Note the MARK START character 1 which n NE PAGE 38 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 marks the start of the text An indicator light will go on next to the word mark upper right hand corner of keyboard when the MARK START key is pressed Position the cursorafterthe lastletter you wish to change and press MARK END 3 The indicator light will stay on until marks are off You can change the markings simply move the cursor to a new place and press MARK START or MARK END again and the startor end point will move to the new location The mark characters always show you what text is marked The cursor changes to a fatcursor 2 when textis marked This is handy when marked text is out of view to let you know that changes could affect off screen text You can remove the marks completely by pressing UNDO Marking Whole Lines and Pages If you wantto copy move or otherwise change an entire line of text place the MARK START character atthe end of the preceding line rather than placing it at the start of the line you want to change This way the marked selection includes the in visible NEW LINE character that created Holmes K Miller Watson A Marion 0 the line This character contains the char acteristics of the line following it so when the
92. llow you to view tapes played on the VCR C Record VCR In a live setup in which the results will be displayed without being recorded the VCR is optional but mostsetups will include the VCR Preview monitor optional If used this monitor must have a composite RCA style video input Use ofthe PREVIEW monitoris described in Chap ter 22 Preview Video Cables You will need one video cable to connectthe TM 3000 out putto the Record VCR and one to connect the Record VCR to the OUTPUT monitor Y ou may also need a cable for the input if a video source is used and for the PREVIEW monitor if used The nextsection describes the types of cables Types of Input and Output acks VIDEO AUDIO TT EN e INPUT VS Composite RCA style video and audio S video Y C BNC video used in some professional equipment RF cables Coaxial cable and twin lead antenna cable Note European video equipment often has SCART plugs Adapters are commonly available to connect SCART equipped units to the RCA jacks provided on the TitleMaker Audio RF cables carry the audio signal along with the video All the others re quire a separate R CA style audio cable gel AUNE VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 13 Types of Cables Used with TitleMaker 3000 INPUT and OUTPUT You can use S video Y C or composite R CA style jacks for the input and output S video Y C jacks deliver somewhat better performance
93. ls how to superimpose titles and explains how to make superimposed titles come and go Standalone titles are independent of any video footage They appear over TitleMaker 3000 s own colored or patterned backgrounds and no video footage is involved Connections To use TitleMaker in an editing setup simply connect it between the VCR or camcorder that will be playing your original tapes and the recorder as described in Chapters 3 and 4 Concept You can create a page of titles and record it immediately then create the next page and record that But generally it is more efficient to create a se quence of pages ahead of time As the production is recorded you trigger play each page at the appropriate moment displaying the page designed for that point in the production Blank pages are added to the sequence any where the production calls for untitled video to be displayed If you are using an automated edit controller with a GPI trigger output such as Videonics Thumbs Up or Edit Suite the controller can automatically trigger each page of titles at the right moments as explained later Here are the steps for defining and using a sequence View your original tape and visualize where titles will go A storyboard diagrams on paper that show how scenes titles and effects unfold is a helpful aid VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 77 Design the titles and create the pages you will need in the order they will have in the
94. ny titles you have entered International Demo Press SHIFT DEMO to display a demo that minimizes the use of English language text This demo is designed for international use Locked Demo Normally pressing any key will end the demo If you want to prevent passers by from accidentally ending the demo hold CMD Command as you start the demo CMD ACCENT DEMO for the English language demo CMD SHIFT DEMO for the international version This will start a locked demo Only the CMD ACCENT DEMO or CMD SHIFT DEMO key combination will stop it Using the Demo as a Guided Tour The demo makes extensive use of TitleMaker 3000 s features and includes several clever tricks for making interesting titles You can study the demo in detail by copying it into the Editing Screen To do this press CMD AC CENT COPY This creates a new project which contains the English lan guage demo Y ou can copy the international demo by pressing CMD SHIFT COPY To move between the demo project and other existing projects press CMD PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN If the memory warning symbol appears when you I attempt to copy the demo it means memory is full 4JU DK Partofthe demo may have been successfully copied MEM but you will have to delete some text before you can copy the whole demo First delete pages text from existing projects then delete the partial demo To delete the project contain ing the partial demo press CMD SHIFT DELETE Now
95. o choose clock F9 Next D 03e use the the leftor right arrow keys L 7 2 S B to move the highlight from the E 0 06 60 OJE clock symbol to the position sym 3 2 3 7 85 bol F8 Change the horizontal position of the clock with the up F Ggo 06 6 60 B or down arrow keys Press NEW 1 2 3 9 8 LINE OK or PLAY To display only a running date G Caose s 00 E in a page press EFFECTS IN Po 1 2 3 10 8 sition the highlight at the bottom sub menu D and use the up or down arrows to choose date G10 Next use the left or right arrow keys to move the highlight from the date symbol to the position symbol G8 Change the horizontal position of the date with the up or down arrow keys Press NEW LINE OK or PLAY PAGE 68 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 To remove the time and or date display from your page return to the EFFECTS IN menu and position the highlight at the bottom sub menu Move to the clock date symbol as chosen and using the up or down arrow key change the clock date symbol back to the off position D6 on previous page The scroll and crawl symbols will reappear Press NEW LINE OK to return to the edit screen Real Time Clock and Date Notes The clock and date when selected from the EFFECTS IN menu will al ways display the current time and date Duration timed or infinite can be set for the page containing the clock and or date either before clock date are set or after by moving from clock date position back
96. o the titles The middle sub menu changes the DE MEER spacing between letters The bottom sub menu is used to make the titles bold The MARK START key is used to determine which sub menu is active The TAB MARK END the left bracket or the right bracket keys can also be used The inactive menus are dimmed changed to a subdued gray to show they re notin use In the example the top sub menu is active the others are grayed The color menus are slightly different the bottom sub menu which con tains a palette of colors is not grayed Instead the triangle shaped highlight arrows tell you which sub menu is active Highlights and Choices One item in the active sub menu is highlighted to show the current choice The arrow keys are used to move the highlight to make a different choice PAGE 44 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Using the Menus SEG Using a menu is simple Position the cursor in the line you want to change or mark the text you wantto change 1 Press the appropriate menu key 2 If there are sub menus containing additional choices use MARK START to determine which sub menu is active see the previous section Sub menus 3 Use the arrow keys to highlight the desired choice 4 When the correct choices are highlighted press one of the following NEW LINE OK to make the choice and return to the editing screen PLAY to make the choice and play the page as changed UNDO or DELETE to return to the
97. oject that in clude marked text The same pages are repeated over and over looped play If no text is marked PLAY starts with the page that contains the cursor CMD 4 PLAY Starts playing from the first page in project regardless of marks or cursor location SHIFT PLAY plays backwards Pressing SHIFT during play switches di rection of play SPACE BAR pauses playing immediately While pages are playing the PLAY key goes to the next page immediately and resumes automatic play from that page Arrow keys move forward and backward ceasing automatic play One page is displayed with each arrow key press and out effects are skipped VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 85 Miscellaneous Hints e You can adjust TitleMaker 3000 s video output to compensate for a televi sion that is off center Press SHIFT POSN A large rectangle is displayed Use the arrow keys to adjust the rectangle until it is centered then press NEW LINE OK CMD P turns Preview mode on and off PAGE 86 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Appendix B Font Listing TitleM aker 3000 includes 204 font size combinations with a com plete setof characters including accented and pictorial characters Character Set All fonts include the following characters except some fonts which include capital letters only ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijkImnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890 gozj amp 2 Fr 10 1 2 x e 1 3HunoO cC RE CE BDAAR j Z
98. ons and Other Applications describes these functions in more detail and explains how they are accomplished with TitleMaker 3000 You can add titles as you copy or edit tapes The original tape remains untouched titles are added to the edited copy TitleMaker 3000 works with VCRs and camcorders of all videotape formats as long as the equip ment used has composite or S video outputs You can superimpose titles on live video or on colored backgrounds using fades and wipes to transi tion between plain video and video with titles For example you might start a basketball video with a solid color screen with the title of the video The names of the players could scroll onto the background Then the titles could fade away As the players run onto the court their names appear superimposed over the image at the bottom of the screen The last name fades away as play begins A player makes a difficult basket and the crowd roars The score appears over a wildly col ored animated background pattern and scrolls off the screen as play con tinues e You can present a running slate of on screen titles for display video D point of sale or video billboard applications You can place titles on top of colored or patterned backgrounds or on live or taped video material Forexample a hotel has monitors in the lobby A video describing the hotel s facilities plays Meanwhile information aboutthe day s scheduled events are su perimposed using th
99. order line above Each text line will have its own border line Hint Don tforgetthatcharacters can make excellentborders Use a row of bullet and pictorial characters such as ACCENT J dashes the letter O etc Make them hollow by making them the same color as background and adding a contrasting outline Removing borders To remove borders mark the text and choose the no border symbol A in the BORDER menu PAGE 60 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Chapter 17 Effects Scrolls and Crawls Effects provide interesting transitions between pages of titles They include simple cuts fades wipes slides scrolls and crawls TitleMaker 3000 includes a variety of transition effects You can use one transition effectto introduce a page oftitles and a separate transition effectto end the page Each can be setto any of eight speeds You can seta duration for each page to determine how long it will be displayed before the out effect removes it You can set an infinite duration to display a page until you press PLAY again You can superimpose the date ortime onto a page You can also use scrolls and crawls at any of eight speeds and in four directions to make yourtitles march across the screen Page Symbols m The Editing Screen in A Migs G15 k 006 5 p m E cludes a setof page symbols at O 06060 the start of each page Page rn en E symbols identify the project B ls Ed1e Ei OF page number and vertical positioning of
100. ow keys to find the desired location in the project Press COPY or MOVE and the marked pages will be duplicated or moved to a new location VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 37 Chapter 9 Changing Titles Youcan easily make changes to the texton the screen Y ou can delete or insert new text reposition it and more Y ou can even copy or move a section of text without retyping Undo Suppose you delete text and then realize you prefer the way it im was The UNDO key lets you change your mind it restores the deleted text Note that UNDO only restores the last text you de leted Any additional action such as typing new text makes the deletion per manent After pressing UNDO to restore deleted text press UNDO one more time to remove the MARK START and MARK END brackets Simple Changes The DELETE keyremovesthe characterbeforethe cursor To make a simple change use the arrow keys to position the cursor after the text you wantto change and press DELETE Each time you press the key the letter before the cursor will be removed Type some new letters and they will be added at the cursor location Marking Text for Major Changes You can delete copy or move large blocks of text at once To do this you first mark the text you intend to change Marked textis brack New York Chicago eted by special marking characters so you can see where itstarts and ends Any changes you 2 557 Seattle JDenver make will affect all
101. page ends the previous page is displayed and play continues in the reverse direction Hint Pressing PLAY or SHIFT P LAY is a handy way to zip through the pages without ending automatic play Itis analogous to the search cue and review fea tures ofa VCR Manual Play Slide Projector Mode You can make TitleM aker 3000 actas a slide projector playing a new page with each key press For example if you are using titles to make a live presen tation you would probably want each page to remain on the screen as you discuss it moving on to the next page when you are ready VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 73 You can define a project so that it always plays manually or you can tem porarily make a project play manually Making a Project Always Play Manually To make a project always play manually set all pages to infinite duration using the Effects In menu Chapter 17 You can do this as you create the titles make the first page infinite and future pages will also be infinite since new pages inheritthe characteristics of the previous page Or you can change all the pages in an existing project to infinite duration by marking all pages and changing their duration To do this use CMD MARK START followed by CMD MARK END to mark all pages then change the duration to infinity using the Effects In menu Hint You can mix manual and automatic play For example suppose you have a presentation and atone point you wanta series ofti
102. pages brief P resent details verbally If you have a lot of information break it into multiple pages Include taped material where appropriate For instance after presenting the reasons your company has built a new facility you can play a tape showing the facility Add a blank page with plain video background at that point in the presentation so the video can be seen You can add titles and effects designed to play over the video Study the play modes carefully Chapter 20 so you know how to play pages backwards and forwards find a page using the Page Index etc VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 79 You can use a remote push button to trigger titles This is useful when you are standing some distance from the titler The following instructions describe how to make a remote trigger button Live Titles Many of the applications listed at the start of this chapter such as video billboards nightclub and restaurantuses and in store displays have one thing in common Titles play live rather than being recorded Live presentations often rely on automatic play in which each page is as signed a duration or uses scroll or crawl Chapter 17 Continuous play Chapter 20 makes it easy to have the program repeat over and over again Projects make it possible to store multiple programs For instance a res taurant might have one set of titles play during lunch and switch to a dif ferent project later in the day Preview Chapter 22
103. passed straight through Note the keyboard must have been cycled on and off since the last time the unit was powered on at the POWER SWITCH in order for video pass through to work To assurereliable storage of titles always press the POWER key and be sure the power light is out before you turn off the POWER SWITCH or unplug the power supply Here s why Titles are retained by the built in lithium battery when you turn the power off Even when the unit is unplugged all titles remain in tact including all settings and formatting When you turn the unit off TitleMaker 3000 reorganizes its memory to optimize storage It is impor tant not to turn off the POWER SWITCH or unplug the unit until the light turns off telling you this operation is complete Connecting Outputs and Monitors AUDIO VIDEO IN IN AUDIO VIDEO IN IN Example OutputConnections n Connectthe OUTPUT monitor to TitleMaker 3000 s video OUT jack 1A 1B If you will be recording the output as in a video production setup connect TitleMaker 3000 s video OUT to the VIDEO IN of the Record VCR Then connecta television or monitor to the Record VCR as described in the manual that came with the VCR You can use either S video Y C cables 1A or composite RCA style cables 1B to connect TitleMaker 3000 to the VCR You can use S video composite orRF cable antenna cables to connectthe VCR and the televi sion monitor In
104. pe special characters such as the ones printed in blue on the keys press ACCENT and a letter at the same time For instance press ACCENT and Q to produce c To type an accented letter simultaneously press AC accent and the key with the desired accent mark tm press the letter to be accented For example press ACCENT and 3 together then release them and press the A key You will see the letter H3 ES Lines new 430K Press NEW LINE OK to end a line of text and begin a new line Ine Moving the Cursor If you want to add text samewhere other than where the cursor is use the arrow keys to move the cursor Press PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN to move a page at a time or you can hold SHIFT as you press the UP or DOWN arrow keys SHIFT with the LEFT or RIGHT arrow key moves the cursor to the start or end of the lire Note You cannct move the cursor past the end of the last line of text If you want to type past the last character in a line positim the oursor at the ed of the line and ty If you want to tye beyond the last characters m the sran positim the cursor at the end of the line and press NEW LINE CK to create blank lines The cursor moves down as you add lines Editing the Text To imt text use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the desired location and type New characters are added at the cursor s location To dide text position the cursor after the characters yo
105. r 3000 and three teaching assistants use itto conduct language tests Each assistant has one or more projects There might be a project named French 101 another named German Il etc Youcancreate different but related presentations Example A sales man ageris visiting three accounts on one trip The manager wants to make the same presentation to each client but with different pages depending on the type of customer and their particular needs To make this simple the sales manager copies the material into three projects and modifies each project for a different customer Each project is named after the intended account VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 35 Viewing Projects The Editing Screen shows one project at a time The Page Index screen shows all pages and all projects in a list In both cases the page symbols al ways include a project symbol The number after the project symbol indicates the number of the project that includes the page For example this page is part of project 3 ii 3 E Creating a Project Projects can only be created in the Page Index screen Press PAGE INDEX Position the cursor in any existing project and press CMD and NEW PAGE simultaneously A new project will appear after the project that contained the cursor Once the new project has been created press NEW LINE OK to enter the Editing Screen and begin adding titles If you don t add titles and or name the project it will be automatically d
106. rns and shapes DEO PATTERN V When VIDEO is chosen for a TitleMaker 3000 pattern the incoming video signal is used instead the TitleMaker 3000 s own colors or patterns DEO PROCESSOR evice used to modify aspects of the video signal uch as color contrast brightness noise sharp ess VIDEO SOURCE Source of incoming video such as a VCR or camcorder that is playing a tape a satellite dish or a laser disc player WILD CARD CHARACTER An asterisk SHIFT 8 used in place of a digit or series of digits in a time or date setting of an internal timed trigger Wild Card character trig gers the projectto repeat regularly based on which field the character is placed WIPE A process in which one image is electronically wiped off the screen and replaced by another TitleMaker 3000 offers 18 wipes that can be used to bring titles on or off the screen Y C The separation of video into separate luminance Y and Chrominance C signals Also called S video All Videonics video products support Y C o lt p 2u PAGE 93 Index A ACCENT 7 ACCENT DEMO 5 23 ACCENT Z 68 ACCENT X 68 ACCENT key 27 accented characters adding a page 33 advanced techniques 82 antenna 12 appearingand disappearing 70 applications 2 75 arrowkeys 7 25 43 asterisk wild card characters 66 audio 16 automatic trigger 66 B background color 52 backup 73 basic applications 2 basics 4 battery backup 73
107. row keys to move the highlight a full screen of bars ata time n the bottom sub menu use CMD UP to move to the first pre defined color Use CMD DOWN to move to the first user defined color PAGE 84 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 In the top sub menu use SHIFT LEFT RIGHT to move the pointer faster across the color setting bar In the bottom sub menu use CMD LEFT RIGHT to move the pointer to the end ofthe bar Using the Demo Press ACCENT DEMO to see a demonstration of the major features Any key will stop the demo Press SHIFT DEMO to display a demo that minimizes the use of English language text This demo is designed for international use Any key will stop the demo Press CMD ACCENT DEMO to see a locked version of the English language demo This demo will not stop until CMD ACCENT DEMO or CMD SHIFT DEMO is pressed Press CMD SHIFT DEMO to see a locked version of the international demo This demo will not stop until CMD SHIFT DEMO or CMD ACCENT DEMO is pressed Press CMD ACCENT COPY to copy the English language demo into a new project Press CMD SHIFT COPY to copy the international demo into a new project Play Modes The current project is always the one played unless the internal timed trig ger has been set to automatically play a different project To play another project use CMD SHIFT UP DOWN to switch projects If text is marked the PLAY key plays all the pages in the pr
108. rs to re mind you to start a new line e You can type as much as you like on a page There is no fixed limit on the number of pages or on the number of characters that can be typed on a page Scrolls can contain up to 110 115 lines per page depending on how many characters there are on each line If a scroll is too long the memory warn ing will appear when you attempt to play the page Text that is typed past the edges of a page will not be displayed in the Editing Screen The extra text is not erased The text will be displayed if you break the line into smaller pieces or use a smaller font size or style When you play the page using the full page scroll effect text that is be yond the top and bottom if the screen is displayed When you play the page using a crawl all the text on the page is displayed Erasing Memory and Resetting Unit You can erase everything in a project by pressing Abe E 0K CMD SHIFT DELETE The trash can symbol ap pears to warn you everything is about to be erased EM Press NEW LINE OK to confirm you really want to erase everything Press UNDO immediately if you do not wantto erase the project VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 83 To completely reset the unit erasing everything and returning the unit to factory condition tum the POWER SWITCH on the back panel OFF then back on While holding CMD SHIFT ACCENT press and hold the POWER key until the Edit Screen is displayed Note If you
109. s 55 ideo processor 21 video source 11 connecting 17 ideonics equipment connections 19 iewing pages 35 iewing projects 35 VITC 20 W warning memory full 40 wide cursor 38 wild card characters 66 wipe 61 wipes 60 wiring 11 Y Y C 4 12 15 lt lt lt lt lt lt lt lt
110. s a different color Add a rainbow pattern to a border and add a scroll effect borders and scrolling are discussed in later chapters The rainbow moves inside the border A similar effect can be done with the pixel pattern Try using video letters on a video background with a tint mixed into the background use the video mixing control described in the last section to mix a solid color with the video background Try this with and without outlines and shadows The result is an interesting video on video effect Mixa solid and transparent pattern Use a the same pattern for the back ground and the letters Then modify the background pattern using the VIDEO PATTERN slider to make the background transparent The result is patterned letters on a transparent patterned background PAGE 58 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Chapter 16 Borders Borders can be used to separate titles orto add an interesting graphic element They can use any of TitleMaker 3000 s colors and pattems You can place a horizontal border line above or below any line of text You can create a box that surrounds a block of titles Each page s borders can use a different color and pat tern Border Style Menu The top parts of the menu determine the border pattern They work the same way as the other Pattern menus Use m MARK START to determine which sub Abc Abe Abd menu is active and the arrow keys to se lect the desired pattern and or pattern style Note the
111. s possible to make a page slide in one direction and out another Choosing a Transition Effect Start with the normal Editing Screen and place the cursor on the page you wantto assign effects Press EFFECTS IN orEFFECTS OUT Use MARK START to highlight the top sub menu A and use the arrow keys to highlightthe desired effect In the Effects In menu the selected effect will be used to introduce the titles in the Effects Out menu it will be used to remove the page from the screen PAGE 62 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Setting the Transition Speed The second sub menu B determines how quickly the effect will occur To choose the speed enter a number ranging from 1 slowest to 8 fastest then press NEW LINE OK or PLAY Speed can also be changed by using the left and right arrow keys moving the highlight to the speed choice and then pressing NEW LINE OK or PLAY Displaying the Page The third sub menu C previous page which appears only in the Effects In menu determines how the title is displayed after the In Effectis performed You can display the page for a fixed amount of time cause itto remain until it is manually continued or use a scroll or crawl When scroll or crawl are not being used the date or time 5 can be selected to display on the page See Chapter 19 for details on date and time Cy 0 06 5 00 1 2 3 4 5 To use this sub menu highlight it using MARK START as usual Use the RIGHT or LEFT arrow keys
112. s use brightly colored gradients The second sub menu 2 chooses from 16 styles of rainbow The Color menu has no effect on the rainbow VIDEO uses your moving video material as the background A sample 4 atthe bottom of the menu shows you what you ve selected PAGE 56 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Selecting Different Rainbow and Pixel Patterns If you selected a rainbow or pixel pattern using the top sub menu you can choose from a variety of styles Use MARK START to make the second sub menu active and use the arrow keys to highlight different pattern numbers The patch at the bottom shows you the style you have highlighted Note that some ofthe styles move These are called animated patterns One Pattern per Page Important note All same type patterns used on a page mustbe the same whether used for background letters border or outlines For instance if you use rainbow for outlines and borders both will have the same color style etc Likewise all pixel patterns will match within a page Each page can use a different color and style but within one page you can use only one rainbow and one pixel pattern Note also that in the Editing Screen when two pages are on the screen at once all patterns will match the patterns used on the page that holds the cursor As you move the cursor between pages all the patterns on the screen will change to match the ones used on the page that holds the cursor Mixing Video into a Backgroun
113. se TitleMaker 3000 When you first use the unit the palette contains a set of pre defined colors As you cre ate new colors the new user colors are added to the palette as described in the section User Colors on the next page Choosing a Color Use MARK START if necessary to make the bottom sub menu active Then simply use the arrow keys to choose the desired color swatch Press PAGE UP orPAGE DOWN to scroll through the colors a full screen ata time Press CMD UP to move the color bar to the first of the pre defined colors CMD DOWN to jump to the first user defined color VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 53 Press NEW LINE OK or PLAY and the line or page you had selected uses the color you highlighted Creating a New Color You can create your own custom color Start by selecting a color from the palette 1 at the bottom of the menu Then modify the color 151 using the color control bars 2 i4 198 atthe top of the menu el 085 Use MARK START to acti vate the control bars Use the arrow keys to adjustthe pointers on the control bars The UP and DOWN arrows choose which of the three bars is active the RIGHT and LEFT arrows adjustthe sliding control ofthe active bar Use SHIFT with the arrows to move the slider faster use CMD to move the pointer all the way to the end ofthe bar The number to the right of each bar shows its value to make it easy to recreate a color later The top bar adjus
114. sly 74 playing in a loop 74 playing manually 72 playing quickly 72 playing some pages 72 point of sale display 75 POSITION key 5 11 14 15 18 Position light 5 11 14 15 18 positioning text 9 41 POWER 4 15 power 5 14 POWER key 5 11 14 15 1 power light 15 POWER SWITCH 5 11 14 15 18 powersupply 14 15 presentations 75 78 preview 80 81 PREVIEW monitor 12 81 PREVIEW OUT 4 81 processor 21 project deleting 35 erasing 35 internal timed trigger names 35 projectnumber 31 projectsymbol 35 projects 6 34 copy 36 move 36 repeated play 66 67 Q QuickStart 4 R rainbow patterns 55 rapid access pages 31 RCA4 12 15 recordVCR 12 recorder 11 rectangle 17 registration card 1 remote trigger button 80 removing borders 59 removing clock 67 removing colors 54 removing date 67 removing marks 38 removing projects 35 removing time 67 68 repeatplay 74 replace 7 replacing text 38 resetting unit 83 resolution 48 response 82 reverse 71 revising titles 37 RF 12 RF cable antenna jack 15 RF modulator 15 RIGHT arrow 25 S S video 4 12 15 sample colors 52 sample of fonts 87 saturation 53 SCART plugs 12 scroll 10 60 scroll capacity 82 scroll length 82 scroll speed 61 see through filter 56 see through pattern 69 shadow color 52 shadows 50 sharing unit 34 SHIFT 6 83 SHIFT arrow keys 25 26 84 SHIFT DEMO 84 SHIFT MARK END 83 SHIFT MARK START SHIFT PLAY 8
115. st sizes should be reserved for minor Ruth Miller information such as copyright notices Note that they ll be somewhat harder to read after they have been recorded on videotape The largestsizes are also special save them for when you really wantto grab the viewer s attention Remember thatthe doubled size options create a more jagged appearance so they should be reserved for when you need their larger sizes orthe very tall or very wide effect When applying font and size style to an entire page if that page contains both text and real time time and or date display the time and or date displayed cannot adopt any style other than its own font number 9 with shadows PAGE 50 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 FontStyle Uy Font Style menu to add shadows outlines bold and other style modifications to a line of text an The menu is divided into three sub menus Use MARK FONT amp START to activate the desired sub menu and the arrow keys to highlight the desired choice Video TitleMaker Each line of titles you have typed can re Lave use a different style You can choose any combination shadow plus condensed type outline plus bold etc In all there are 36 combinations of styles These styles are in addition to the colors fonts patterns and other changes made by other menus Video TitleMaker Video TitleMaker Video TitleMaker Video TitleMaker fele TE TER Video TitleMa
116. t the infinity symbol 2 Scroll and Crawl The scroll 3 or crawl 4 in the bottom sub menu indicate that the titles on the page should move up the screen in a full page scroll or across the screen in a crawl n a scroll the page of titles will move up starting at the bottom of the screen and continue to scroll off the top the way credits are generally done at the end of a movie The color font and other characteristics of each line will be preserved Borders will scroll as well e n a crawl the titles turn into a single line of text and move across the screen from right to left until they disappear at the left edge of the screen the way a news bulletin is displayed over a television show A space is inserted between each pair of lines If two lines have different characteris tics the first line will crawl off the screen before the second one begins its crawl You can make a crawl occur at the top bottom or middle of the page depending on whether the page is set for top middle or bottom vertical positioning as described in Chapter 10 Scroll and Crawl Notes When you use scroll or crawl the transition effects for that page are dis abled You can t combine fades wipes and slides with a scroll or crawl When you use scroll or crawl you are unable to display the time and or date on thatsame page The speed setting of the Effects In menu is used to set the speed of the scroll or crawl the speed and effect
117. te DEMO by pressing ACCENT and DEMO simultaneously You should see a se D ries of titles Press any key to stop the demo n Align video output optional mana PREVIIEV OUT Television screens do notnormally show the entire picture A small amount of each edge is normally cut off The amount that each edge cuts off can vary making the image slightly off center For normal television viewing this is not very important but titles tend to make any imbalance noticeable TitleMaker 3000 allows you to adjust the picture to center it on the screen To adjust the centering press SHIFT POSN Position The indicator light comes on the keyboard and a large rectangle is displayed on the screen Use the arrow keys to adjust the rectangle until it is centered and press NEW LINE OK The new centering will be remembered even if you un plug the unit To cancel any changes you have made press UNDO You can bring centering back to the original factory setting by pressing SHIFT POSN Position again while the rectangle is displayed Connecting a Video Source Video sources include camcorders VCRs laser disc players cameras video production equipment such as a mixer or another titler satellite tuners broad casttuners receivers video equipped computers etc They may have S video Y C or composite RCA style output jacks RF sources cable TV antenna channel 3 4 or other modulated sources must be converted to S video or
118. te features you can display a real time clock and or date and you can trigger projects automatically ata predetermined time and date Y ou can also drop today s time or date into your project with justa key stroke Setting the Clock and Date Formats The clock can use any of six formats Press CMD Z for the clock menu To select a format highlight the top sub menu then move the cursor using the up or down arrow keys To return to the editing screen press NEW LINE OK The date can use any of eight formats Press CMD X for the date menu To select a format highlight the top sub menu then move the cursor using the up or down arrow keys To return to the editing screen press NEW LINE OK Setting the Clock and Date To set or change the current time press CMD Z Highlight the middle sub menu and type in the new time using leading zeros for numbers 1 9 For example type 09 45 00 not9 45 00 for 9 45 The numbers that are typed dis play from right to left replacing the old time When a format that contains AM or PM has been selected after entering the time press the right arrow key to highlight the AM PM field then type A for AM or P for PM the up and down arrow keys will also work To start the new time press NEW LINE OK To set or change the current date press CMD X Highlight the bottom sub menu and type in the new date according to the format you selected in the top sub menu using leading zeros for numbers 1
119. ter 5 Using the Demo 23 Using the Demo sse 2 3 International Demo 223 Locked Demo ens 52 3 Using the Demo as a Guided Tour 23 Using the Demo to Create Titles 24 Chapter 6 Typing Titles The Editing Screen and Cursor Moving Around the Screen Shortcuts for Moving the Cursor Typing Titles n n P Columns Tabs seniore Typing Special and Accented Characters sss 27 Chapter 7 Pages veces 30 About Pages ccm t es Long Pages is Creating a Page 4 Page Symbols onere Navigating Pages and Projects with the Page Index dese tetto t 31 Deleting a Page Inserting a Page Moving and Copying Pages 33 Chapter 8 Projects s About Projecta nan cene tees Examples of How Projects are Used Viewing Projects sse Creating a Project Naming a I cutetassniieurctamenutinernon Removing a Project or Erasing its Contents sssr 35 Moving Between Projects 36 Copying or Moving Text Between Projects sss 36 Chapter 9 Changing Titles 37 UNO Qai actor endet 37 Simple Changes 33 Marking Text for Major Changes Marking Whole Lines and Pages 38 Deleting Marked Text 38 Replacing Marked Text 38 Moving and Copying Text 39 Chapter 10 Positioning Text 41 Positioning Horizontally Left Right Center 41 Positioning Vertically Up Down Center Additional Positioning Hint C
120. than composite RCA style jacks but only if they are used for both the input and output In other words Use S video Y C jacks if your source and recorder are both equipped with them use only the composite RCA style jacks if ei ther lacks S video jacks If you are using the S video output jacks you must I use S video for the input If you try to use the S video output and the composite RCA input an ING 4 OK on screen warning appears to remind you to use S video in Record VCR to OUTPUT monitor If you are using a Record VCR the OUTPUT monitor can be connected to the VCR using an RF antenna cable type cable composite R CA style cable or S video Y C cable de pending on what types of jacks are available on the VCR and monitor If you have a choice S video is generally better than composite and compos ite is better than RF PREVIEW If you are using a PREVIEW monitor it mustbe connected via a composite RCA style cable BNC If you plan to use equipment with BNC jacks you will also need RCA BNC adapters e Audio The audio jacks on TitleMaker 3000 are simple pass through con nectors provided to make connections between two video devices conve nient AUDIO IN is routed directly to AUDIO OUT unmodified by the unit IN and OUT Markings Hint Always connect the OUT jack IN of one device to the IN jack of the next Never connect two OUTs together OUT PAGE 14 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000
121. the basic connections described in the previous chapter are working properly before you add advanced equipment Concept There is no single correct way to connect equipment in an editing stu dio The setup varies depending on what you wantto accomplish The most important concept is that editing equipment is connected in a chain with the output of one device feeding the input of the next E BEEN Z2 The order in which the pieces of equipment are connected matters since each piece will act on the video generated by devices that are earlier in the chain For instance if you wanted to add titles to video that has had special effects added you would use the setup labeled 1 in the illustration connect ing the titler B after the special effects unit A If you wanted to add effects to the titles and the video you would reverse the order as in setup 2 Videonics Equipment Arrangements Here are some recommended setups using Videonics equipment PAGE 20 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Inthe firstsetup the camcorder A is connected through TitleM aker 3000 C andThumbs Up E totherecorder D Inthe second setup the camcorder A is connected through the Digital Video MixerMX1 B and TitleMaker 3000 C tothe recorder D Note thatother hookups may be more suitable for your setup as explained in the rest of this chapter Single Source Editing Setup A single source editing setup uses
122. ther the patterns and colors used in the entire screen will change To see the pattems and color that are set for a particular page move the cursor to that page Each page can use one type of pixel pattern and one type of rainbow pattern see Chapter 15 So for example if you set same letters to use rainbow pattem 11 then set the background to use rainbow 14 both will use 14 When you type samething new it will have the same characteristics as the preceding letter If you want to type in a different style use the menu key to make a new choice and continue typing Superimposing Titles on Video To superimpose titles on video change the background to JEO rather than a solid color or pattern Follow these Steps Position the cursor on the page that contains the titles you wish to superimpose Press the BACKGROUND PATTERN menu key VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 9 Use MARK START to highlight the top sub menu Use the RIGHT arrow key to highlight the EO symbol Press NEW eh An LINE OK Confimm that your video source is running start the WR or camcorder Press PLAY The OUIPUI monitor will show your page of titles superim posed over the source video au Francisco Making Titles Come and Go In a production you may want superimposed titles to appear for a while then disappear To do this place blank pages with video backgrounds between pages of titles Create a page of superimposed
123. titles At the end of the page press NEW PAGE but don t type anything on this page Set its background to VIDEO if it isn t already Press NEW PACE again and type the next titles When you play these pages the first titles appear then transition to the blank page Since this page is empty and the background is plain video the result is that the titles simply go away The next page can then introduce more titles See Chapter 19 Positioning Text on the Line Abelard amp Heloise Abelard Abelard amp amp Heloise Heloise You can change the position of the text on any line A line can be centered or positioned against the left or right exe of the screen Position the cursor on the line Press ad meles the PON Position key the position light will go on Then press the IFFT or RIGHT arrow the position light will go off The line position changes immediately to show the new choice left center or right justification The page synbol is not affected See Chapter 10 Positioning Text on the Page Gable amp Lombard Ge le Lombard eae Lombard The page symbol shows how text is positioned vertically on the page It can be positioned at the top center or botta of the page To change the position pes and eles te POSN Position key then press the UP or DOWN arrow on the keypad You will see the text in its new position when you press PLAY PAGE 10 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Transitions
124. tles to play automatically S etthe whole projectto infinite duration but settimed durations for the pages you wantto play automatically Notes When you change the duration of all the pages note that you cannot change it back by using UNDO Becareful when you have pages marked because you can make unintended global changes easily Press UNDO immediately Playing Any Project Manually You can make a project play manually even if ithas durations set by using the arrow keys during PLAY Play the project normally using PLAY or CMD PLAY Atany time press the RIGHT arrow key to flip forward to the next page Automatic play pauses the page remains on the screen until you are ready to move on Any dura tions that have been set are ignored Continue to use RIGHT arrow to play forward manually a page at a time Use the LEFT arrow key to flip back to the previous page To resume automatic play press PLAY Note the difference between using PLAY or SHIFT PLAY to skip pages as compared to using the arrow keys PLAY and SHIFT PLAY flip to the next page and continue automatic play the arrow keys flip to the next page and stay there paused Arrow keys also skip the out effect The arrow keys are a very convenient way to rapidly flip through the pages to find a particular page Hint The DOWN arrow key does exactly the same thing as the RIGHT arrow key The UP arrow key does the same thing as the LEFT arrow If you think of for war
125. to a different project In summary the rule is Empty projects without names are automatically removed when you leave the Page Index unless the cursor is located in the empty project Projects that contain titles or a name are never deleted auto matically Moving Between Projects Press CMD SHIFT UP or DOWN arrow or CMD PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN to move between projects This works whether the Page Index or the Editing Screen is displayed Copying or Moving Text Between Projects You can copy or move pages of text from one project to another For in stance you might have a set of opening credits you use with all your produc tions permanently stored as project 1 Whenever you begin a new produc tion you create a new project and copy the standard credits from project 1 to the new project You can copy or move between projects using either the Page Index or Editing Screen P age Indexis convenientfortransferring many pages atonce since the pages are displayed in a more compact form however it only allows you to move or copy entire pages If you wantto move parts of pages use the Editing Screen or use the P age Index to move the whole page first then use the Editing Screen to delete the portion you don t want Markthe pages you want using MARK START and MARK END In Page Index you can only mark whole pages Press CMD SHIFT UP or DOWN arrow or CMD PAGE UP orPAGE DOWN to move the cursor to the desired project Use the arr
126. to control the tape machines making sure the correct scenes end up in the correct place Whether you edit manually or automatically the techniques for adding titles are similar PAGE 76 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Titles and Video Editing Titles greatly enhance an edited video For instance they can be used to help tell the story to introduce changes of time or place to identify people or settings and to add credits TitleMaker 3000 is the ideal companion for edit ing equipment of all kinds You can add top quality titles as you copy or edit your original videotapes How Titles are Added to a Production Titles are never added to a tape that has already been recorded Instead they are added as the original tape is being copied to a new tape The original tape remains as it was and the titles as well as special effects and other modi fications are placed on the new tape along with the original footage This means you can use the same original tape for many different productions with different titles added to each production Titles can be combined with the video or created as separate standalone titles The most common example of titles combined with video is when they are superimposed over video as with subtitles or when video is used as a pat tern choice Another example is where a screen of titles fades or wipes to the running video video and titles are combined during the fade or wipe Be sure to read Chapter 19 Ittel
127. to the first two symbols in the sub menu D1 amp D2 The clock and date display is standard and cannot be changed to a differ ent font or size The clock and date display following the lastline of text on the page when the page is played The clock and date are not displayed during Effects In or Effects Out but will appear on the screen in between the effects ftime and or date are selected to display scroll and crawl cannot be se lected Placing Time or Date in your Text You can easily insert the time or date onto your page as a textual object one that will not change as time goes by and will be formatted with the rest of the text From the Edit Screen position the cursor where you want the time and or date inserted then press ACCENT Z for time ACCENT X for date Remove the time date insert as you would any other text on a line VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 PAGE 69 Chapter 19 Superimposing Titles Titles can be superimposed over any video source Superimposed titles are often used in pro San fessional productions to identify people places t E times settings orthe score ofthe game They Francisco can also be used for subtitles or justas a way Nai to play credits with an interesting background TitleMaker 3000 allows you to superimpose titles Effects such as scrolling can be used to An bring titles in and out over the source video Superimposing Titles on Video To
128. ts the hue of the color whether it s red yellow blue etc The middle bar adjusts the saturation the strength ofthe color The bottom bar adjusts the lightness of the color between black on one end and white on the other These three adjustments are known as the HLS color model It s a bit like mixing paints The hue control determines what color paint you are using The saturation control shows how much of that color is in the mix And the lightness control is something like mixing in more or less white or black paint The sample color swatch 3 in the middle region of the screen shows the resulting color When the color is correct press NEW LINE OK and the new color will be added to the user colors Using the User Colors Whenever you create a new color it is placed in the color palette User colors are displayed with a shortened bar They are sorted by color notby the order they were created Hint To quickly locate the user colors press CMD DOWN arrow and the first top most user colorin the listis highlighted Press CMD UP arrow to highlight the first pre defined color which is just below the lastuser color The palette will hold up to 64 user col ors When there are 64 and you add an other the color closest to the one newly created will be removed When a user color is removed from the palette there is The usercolors are indicated by a shortened colorswatch PAGE 54 VIDEONICS T
129. u want to remove and press DE EIE The character before the cursor is removed To delete large blocks of text at once mark the text and press celete To l text delete the existing text then type the new text Oops f you accidentally delete samething immediately press UNDO It restores the text that was celeted by the last press of the DEIETE key Using Menus to Change Colors Fonts etc You can change darateristics such as fonts colors and font styles using the menu keys amp the t of the keyboard To do this position the cursor anywhere in the line you wish to change and press the appropriate menu key For instance press the LETTER COLOR key in the top row A menu of colors appears This menu has two sub menus one at the top of the screen and come at the botta O Each sub menu contains choices you can use to 0o00 PAGE 8 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 change your titles Use the left or right bracket to choose which sbreu is active In this example the bottom sub menu is active Tab MARK START and MARK END also work If you wanted to use the top sub menu instead you would press any of the previ ously mentioned keys Ce item in the active menu is highlighted In this exemple a color choice is highlighted by the triangular pointers A Use the arw keys to move the highlight to a different color The sample patch sho
130. ure both the startand end points are marked Move the cursor to a new location and press MOVE The marked text will disappear and reappear at the new spot The text will still be marked so you can make more changes Move the cursor to a new location and press COPY The old text will stay where it was and a new copy of it will appear at the cursor s location The new copy will be marked so you can COPY again to make more copies or make other changes Example You are creating a business presentation with a list of cities that will be visited and decide to change the order of events to move the Paris and Venice visits after the London visit To do this you mark the lines that contain P aris and Venice You position the cursor after London When you press MOVE the marked text will move to the cursor location Pressing COPY instead would have duplicated the marked text at the cursor s location PAGE 40 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000 Oops Note that UNDO does not reverse a copy or move operation However you can undo the move operation by immediately moving the cursor back to the original location and pressing MOVE Memory If this appears when you copy text it means the copy I filled all of memory You will need to remove some text MEM 9 before you can add more Multiple Copies After you copy the newly copied text is marked This makes it easy to make many copies of the marked text Simply press COPY as many times
131. ws the selected color Press NEW LINE OK or PLAY to choose the color you have highlighted NEW LINE OK retums you to the editing screen PLAY will play the resulting page All the characters in the line that contained the cursor will change to the selected color More Changes Use menus to Change font style and size letter color and pattem letter outline color and pattem as well as background color and pattern Add borders to lines or pages and change their type color and pattem Have effects start and end a page of titles Display current time and or date Make text scroll and crawl Each menu works much in the same way If there are sub menus use MARK START to switch between sub menus Then use the arrow keys to highlight your choice and press PLAY or NEW LINE CK to implement it Notes Background Pattern and Effect menus affect the entire page that contains the cursor The other menus affect only the contents of the line that contains the cursor If groups of text lines or pages are marked using MARK START and MARK END the changes will affect the lines pages that are marked You cannot mix characteristics on a lire When you are editing text using the Editing Screen several pages may be on the screen at once with page symbols between them Note that the backgrounds and borders of all the pages appear in the pattem and oolor of the page that contains the cursor As you move the cursor fram one page to ano
132. y 9 DELETE Erases marked text if any Otherwise erases the character before the cursor LT 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 POSN POSITION Press and release POSN followed by up or down arrow keys to position text at the too bottan or oenter of the page Press and release POSN then left or right arrow to position text at right left or center pace Chapter 10 TAB Smart tab positions cursor to match spaces in previous line of text Also used to choose which submenu is active Chapter 6 SHIFT and CAPS LOCK Hold SHIFT to type capital letters CAPS LOCK capitalizes all typing until pressed again Note that same fonts have only capital letters SHIFT is also used to modify the function of other keys Chapter 6 Appendix A CMD COMMAND Modifies function of other keys Appendix A and Chapter 18 Z CLOCK QD Cammand Z displays clock menu Use to set current time dis play fomrat set current time and set intemal timed trigger for projects Chapter 18 ACCENT Hold ACCENT while typing a letter key to type the special synbols etc printed in blue Use with power key to activate DEMO Use with acoent marks fol lowed by a letter to type accented intemational characters such as etc Chap ter 5 amp 6 PLAY After you create titles using the Editing Screen press either PLAY key 16 or 21 to play the titles for displ
133. yles Use mixed styles with some caution As with fonts and sizes mixing too many styles can create a haphazard overly complex look Some combinations will make the text harder to read or less attractive For instance if you use the spacing option to place letters closer together the edges of shadows outlines or bold letters may be clipped JULIUS CAESAR JULIUS CAESAR If letter spacing is settoo tight letters will be clipped as in the bottom sample Bold letters can make a bold statement They can also improve readability when small titles are placed over a video background Hint F or extra bold letters combine a bold setting with an outline in the same coloras the letter Note thatvery bold letters can cause the openings in letters such as o and e to close making the results hard to read Outlines and shadows are particularly useful for making titles stand out when the letters and backgrounds are similar in color They also work well when titles are placed against a busy video background The color and pattern of the outline or shadow can be setindependently of the letter color you can have blue letters with a rainbow patterned out line for instance By making the letter and background the same color you can make outlined letters that look hollow By making the outline and let terthe same color you can make the letters look fatter than usual in a way that is different from the effect of bold letters Other effe

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