Text Options Not Working ??

bigbeat

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?

Nick

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.

bigbeat

Awesome, that worked decently. Looking forward to using it for the first time tonight :-)

Nick

Cool. Let us know how it goes.

bigbeat

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 :-)

henrygq

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!

Nick

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.

henrygq

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.

henrygq

makes me n others feel better about spending the xtra money on ME

Nick

So, some sort of text effect option. I'll think about it :)

henrygq

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..

skinnyguy

i like the efx from the pioneer svm that has the letters shooting into the middle of the screen.

Nick

I've never seen that effect before. Do you know of any online video examples of that effect?

skinnyguy

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

Nick

Cool - thanks for the link.

henrygq

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!

DJCarlos

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

Nick

I've looked into adding text effects before, but it hasn't made it into the product so far.

geeebeee

Try playing around with fonts. I use phosphate and it looks very good.

skinnyguy

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...