The Text dialog box

# Videoporama interface
The text dialog box

### The text dialog box

The text dialog box allow you to add one or many text block on image. The same box is used for 3 different text type :

The overlaid texts : | Those texts are displayed during the entire video, over every image and transitions. This kind of text is suitable to display a date or the video title
The sequence background texts : | Those texts are shown on every sequences plan. In function of cropping, those texts can be animated as zoom effect or scrolling.
The fixe plan texts : | Those texts are shown only during the fixe part of a specific plan.

The text box is composed by 3 parts :

#### The action bar and manual input value

It's located on top of the box and allow you to :

| A click on this button create a new text block
| A click on this button delete the current selected text block
X : | Means the horizontal position of text block from the left image border.
Y : | Means the vertical position of text block from the top image border.
Width : | Means the width of text block.
Height : | Means the height of the text block.

Tip : Those 4 values are given in percent of total image width or in pixel in function of unit setting defined in the configuration box of Videoporama.

#### The text tab

This tab is to define the content and the appearence of the text block :

The first combobox : | To select the font to use

Alignment :

To select the horizontal and vertical text alignment inside the text block :

Horizontal alignment | Vertical alignment
| To the left |  | To the top
| Center |  | Verticaly centered
| Justify |  | To the bottom
| To the right

Size : | To select the font size
Color : | To select the text color
Style : | To select a text style : Bold Italic Underline

Effect :

Give an effect to the text characters :

| Surround the text characters with line of selected color
| Add shadow of selected color to the text characters by putting it in one of the 4 corners.

Input area : | The area to type the text to display

#### Tab shape

This tab allow you to define the shape of text block :

Style :

Define the shape stype to use from :
Text only (The background shape is not define and not shown)
Rectangle
Rounded rectangle
Bubble
Ellipse

Background :

Define the transparency level and the border to apply from :

Solid | The background shape are displayed with no transparency.
Transparency 75%, 50% or 25% | The background shape is displayed with a transparency of 75% or 50% or 25 %.
Transparent | Only the shape border is diplayed.

The button allow you to select the bachground color of the shape.

Line width : | Define the line width. If the line width is defined at 0, then no border is displayed. the button allow you to select the line color.

### Using text in Videoporama

- Overlaid texts are globally defined for the project in the Tab Montage Options.
- Background texts are defined using the sequence tab
- Static shot texts are defined using the Title & Image tab

### See also

- Sequences
- Text in Videoporama

Videoporama 0.8.1 - January 2011 - Available translation :