Scrolling text

[Marie]

I know how to use WMM pretty good...but I was
wondering...in WMM2, is there any way to scroll text
across my video? It is for a song and I need/want the
lyrics on the screen. Is there any way do you know of?
I want them to be on top of my video.

 

[Jose]

I haven't done it, but here is how I would try it. I think it would be
tedious. Cut the song at the beginning of each phrase. Under tasks, "Make
titles or credits", "Add title on the selected clip" add a ticker tape or
some other type to each segment. All the titles show up on the title overlay
track in the timeline. I suggested cutting into phrases so that then it
would be easy to stretch each overlay to fill the entire time and to choose
the starting time for each title. I actually think a ticker tape would be
annoying. Its better if the words just flash on the screen and stay until
the next words arrive.

 

[whoever]

I know how to use WMM pretty good...but I was
wondering...in WMM2, is there any way to scroll text
across my video? It is for a song and I need/want the
lyrics on the screen. Is there any way do you know of?
I want them to be on top of my video.

Sorry, I can't help you with the specifics of how to do it, but someone
posted an example recently of a video that he had put together that
includes scrolling text, so it can be done.

http://digitaltoast.co.uk/mad/vid/louise.wmv