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Visualization Tool
Text Crawl Tab
A Text Crawl is a single formatted text line that moves horizontally across
the display screen. The
Text Crawl Tab is used to create a Display template.
The Text Crawl screen consists of two principal display areas. The Property
section in the top upper left and a scalable example of the template display.
The example of the screen display area is correctly scaled to the dimensions
of selected video standard. All elements, including font size, are scaled to
display the template as it would appear in the respective screen display.
This example screen display includes dashed line boundaries that corre-
spond to important screen-display areas. These boundaries are the SAFE
ACTION boundary and the SAFE TITLE boundary. The SAFE ACTION
Boundary identifies the area of the screen that will reliably display
program action on all display screens, including monitors that are utilizing
overscan. The SAFE TITLE boundary identifies the area of the screen that
will reliably display text information on all display screens, including mon-
itors utilizing overscan.
The Text crawl and CG text features should be limited to the area inside the
SAFE TITLE boundary. The text may be lost or may be seen to move off-
screen in a crawl template if a text element is allowed to extend beyond the
SAFE TITLE.
Creating a Template File
All of the buttons in the Properties section will be covered in this section.
Follow these steps to create a Display template in the Visualization Tool:
1. Click the Text Crawl tab in the application interface.
The Text Crawl tab interface is shown in Figure 232 .