Newbie Needs Help - PreE7 - using text/titles

Question

I'm learning PE7 and I'm having difficulty achieving the results I want with text - I hope someone can help...
I have a 'visual' (screen capture) you can view here in my photoshop gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ybeu2t9
My Goal: To create a video from still images with occasional, black, blank clips with text in between.
My Problem:  Some of my text is 'animated' and I don't want it to be.  I can't figure out how to remove the animation nor do I understand why it's happening in the first place.
If you look at my 'visual', you'll see:
item (1) is a clip where I have a still image (repositioned on a black background) with text over it.  Both the text and the image are set to fade out to the next still in the video... I'm not quite sure how I managed to achieve this but the results are what I want for this one.
item (2) is a clip where I created a blank and then added text to it.  When I play it, the text is static (not animated at all) and this is just the way I want it to be.
item (3) - here I tried to duplicate what I did with item 2 (though with different text), that is, create static text but when I play the video, it is faded in, which I do  not want.  I noticed that it has a little, double-photo, icon in the corner just as item 1 has so I assume it is the indicator that something is happening here but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to remove it.
I'll appreciate any help!
Oh, and if it's important to know, I'm using Windows Vista 64.
Lady of the Thorns (aka Rose)

Answer 1

Welcome to the forum.
Thank you for the screen-cap. What I suspect is happening is that you are actually altering an existing Title - one with animation already appled. When you create a Title and drag it to the Timeline, or the Sceneline, you are placing an "instance" of that Tilte only. One can have unlimited instances of the same Title. If you change, say the text in that instance, you are changing it for that Title, so if you have multiple instances, they all will change.
Now, PrE allows one to do a Title Template, and also allows one to create new Styles. To do Titles that will be the same, with only text changes, the Title Template is easy to use, but you need to do multiple ones, changing the text, as is required of each of those multiple Tiltles. They will now appear in the Project Panel as separate Titles. You can then have multiple instances of any of these.
An example would be a Title Template with animation and a Style that you want, that says "Place Text Here." You'd bring that Template into your Project and then change that text to "Meanwhile, back at the ranch," and you want it to crawl across the screen (Animation) Now, you want that particular Title to be used in 4 places in your Timeline. You'd just drag it to the required spots. All would read, "Meanwhile, back at the ranch." All will crawl. If you change the text in one, all will update. That is not what we want. If we want a static Title to read, "Looking down on the ranch," we need to do a new Title for that. We'd not use the Template, but could use the Style that we created and saved, creating a new, static Title with our new text.
On a sidenote, PrPro (PrE's big brother) has a similar Titler. One neat feature on it is a little icon that allows one to do a new Title, but based on the one in the Titler. When chosen, this opens a Title naming dialog box, and then creates a new Title. All attributes will be the same, and initially will have the same text. We change that, and it's in a new Title, so it does not affect any other Titles. This is a big timesaver, and I hope that PrE will add it.
One additional thing to remember is that the PrE Title animations will affect only one line of text. If one wants animation of multiple lines of text, they need to do one Title for each line of text and then add the animation to each separate Title. These would then be placed in separate Video Tracks, one above the other, so it appears as one Title on the Timeline.
Hope that this is your issue, and that I have helped you solve the problem. If not, please tell me where I went wrong.
Good luck,
Hunt