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Text Options Not Working ??

edited December 2008 in MixEmergency
I just purchased y copy and was messing around with the text options. fonts, sizes, ext.

I was able to change the fonts but I wasn't able to reduce the size or include a drop shadow as it showed in the options. Am I doing something wrong or is this not working properly?

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  • edited 11:30AM
    Currently the font size and drop shadow on the standard Mac OS X font selection panel are unsupported. To change the size of the font you should instead use the Height slider on the Text Overlay window: http://www.inklen.com/mixemergency/manual/textoverlay

    I'm not sure if we will be able to implement drop shadows, but I have made a note to look into it further.
  • edited 11:30AM
    Awesome, that worked decently. Looking forward to using it for the first time tonight :-)
  • edited 11:30AM
    Cool. Let us know how it goes.
  • edited 11:30AM
    Used it last night for the first time. Did have some issues. I will bring that up on a separate thread. Still, if the "issues" can be fixed, it was the perfect program for what I needed :-)
  • edited 11:30AM
    hey nick.. i was wondering in future releases if u could add soemthing to where we(the dj) can preview what the font/position/color will look like... n then were ready hit another button to throw it on the screen where everyone can see it.. u follow ??

    thnx!
  • edited 11:30AM
    There are some changes that are planned for the text overlay area, but these changes have no fixed time-frame yet (i.e. they could be in 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, etc depending on what other more important fixes and features need implementing). So, when these changes to the text overlay area are made this will be taken into consideration.
  • edited 11:30AM
    oh.. and if u could have the scrolling going up and down instead of just sideways, that would be greatly appreciated! thnx again! oh an if possible.. maybe some kind of vibration or earthquake effect would be super cool as well :)

    thnx for listening and im def diggin ME, i just hope u guys ALWAYS stay 2 steps ahead of vsl.
  • edited 11:30AM
    makes me n others feel better about spending the xtra money on ME
  • edited 11:30AM
    So, some sort of text effect option.

    I'll think about it :)
  • edited 11:30AM
    yeah.. im def down with that, i used text thingy tonight for some females birthdays, so it was nice!
    and as far as texting efx.. like a rolling credit from a movie and hopefully down the road some kind of preview :) sorry for being picky..
  • edited 11:30AM
    i like the efx from the pioneer svm that has the letters shooting into the middle of the screen.
  • edited 11:30AM
    I've never seen that effect before. Do you know of any online video examples of that effect?
  • edited 11:30AM
    some fx are here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htLtUykHBQ4

    i believe the effect i was talking about is around 4:32

    they got some other cool text stuff around the 4:05 mark as well
  • edited 11:30AM
    Cool - thanks for the link.
  • edited 11:30AM
    i think every thing i seen in the video is definately the way to go for texting in mix emergency!!!! liek thats the fuckin shit! SERIOSULY!!! thnx skinnyguy!
  • Hi,
    sorry to bring back to life this old thread.
    i was wondering if there is a way to make some contour (or stroke as it is called in photoshop) for the text?
    thanks
  • I've looked into adding text effects before, but it hasn't made it into the product so far.
  • Try playing around with fonts. I use phosphate and it looks very good.

  • Hey Nick. Itʻs been a while. I know you havenʻt added any text fx yet, but what if you allowed another layer of text? We can kinda make a fake shadow with it just by changing color, size, opacity, position...

  • Yeah. I'm hoping to eventually have a more customisable overlay section, but it's a larger job to get this done.

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