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Showing/hiding grid and safe area, Displaying a background – Grass Valley EDIUS Pro v.7.4 Reference Manual User Manual

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Chapter 8 Title Creation — Quick Titler

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Select the text and objects you want to switch the order of.

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Click [Front] on the object tool bar.

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If you click and hold down [Front], you can select [Back], [Move to Top] or [Move to Bottom].

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Click [Layout] on the Quick Titler menu bar, and click [Order] → an item.

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Right-click a text object, and click [Layout] → [Order] → an item.

Showing/Hiding Grid and Safe Area

You can display a grid or safe area on the object creating screen to use as a guide when moving text objects.

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Click [Line Grid] or [Title Safe Area] on the object tool bar.

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If you click and hold down [Line Grid], you can select [Dot Grid].

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Click [View] on the Quick Titler menu bar, and click [Grid] → [Dot Grid] or [Line Grid].

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Click [View] on the Quick Titler menu bar, and click [Title Safe Area].

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If Quick Titler starts up from EDIUS, the 4:3 title safe area will also be displayed when [4:3] for the 16:9 screen guide line is set to be

displayed through [Preview] in [User Settings] → [Overlay].

“[Overlay]” (w page 99)

Displaying a Background

You can import EDIUS Recorder images or any still images to be the background of the object creating screen to use as a guide when

positioning text objects.
Clicking the background will display the background properties.

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Click the [Background] tree on the background properties bar, and then select an item to be
displayed as background.

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If you have selected [Still Image], click [...] and select a still image in the [Select Background File] dialog box.

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Even if a background is set as the background in the background properties of QuickTitler, the background is not used in the title clip.

The background set in the background properties is available as the background for the edit screen. To output an edited title with a

background, export a still image.

“Exporting a Still Image” (w page 352)