Pinnacle Speakers DEKO500 - Manual (Page 93)

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Deko500 User’s Guide
C OMPOSING C RAWLS
To compose a graphic for a "crawl" effect:
1. Activate a graphic window (F5).
2. In the Text menu, select Horizontal Scrolling.
3. Compose the text for the crawl. If you are composing more than
one row of text to crawl, use the Enter key to create up to three
additional rows.
4. Save the graphic.
Notes
By default, text composed without horizontal scrolling selected
crawls across the bottom of the screen.
You can create multi-row crawls of up to four rows of text
To run a crawl effect:
1. Activate the Sequence window (F11).
2. Enter the graphic’s file name, specify “crawl” as the effect, and
enter a playback rate.
3. Press Alt+Enter to run the effect. See Creating a Sequence.
To crawl text across a specific row of the screen:
1. Follow the above instructions for composing a graphic for a
“crawl” effect.
2. Before you save the graphic, move the cursor to the top row of
text. Press Alt+
↓
to move the text down to the desired screen
location.
3. Follow the above instructions for running the crawl effect.
B ROWSING FOR G RAPHICS IN A S EQUENCE
To browse for graphic files to add to a sequence:
1. Activate the Sequence window (F11).
2. Do one of the following:
From the Sequence menu, choose Browse for Files (Ctrl+L).
Select Browser from the View window (Ctrl+L).
3. Double-click a thumbnail to enter it into the sequence.