Text Screen

Major enhancements to SCS functionality and the user interface
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Peter Jackson
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Text Screen

Post by Peter Jackson » Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:32 am

Hi Mike

Don't know if anyone else has had a need to do this but I recently did a show with some images and videos and the director suddenly came up with the question..." Can I have a line of text before each dance?" now of course this ment a dive into powerpoint and produce slides then save them all as pictures and then drop each one into a image file.
What are the chances of having a text/slide for maybe up to 100 characters which could be typed straight in with maybe 3 or 4 standard fonts and 3 or 4 sizes?
Or dare I say linked to 'Word' to use any fonts etc.
PJ
Peter Jackson
Jackson Media and Trevonne Stage School
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Re: Text Screen

Post by Mike Daniell » Sun Aug 14, 2011 9:28 am

Could be done and could also be overlaid over an image or a video (if using xVideo). Fonts are not normally a problem as a standard 'font requester' will list all the fonts registered in your Windows installation. But if you want any fancy formatting, drop-shadows, borders, etc you'd be better of creating jpg's from PowerPoint as you're doing now.
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Re: Text Screen

Post by Peter Jackson » Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:58 pm

Hi Mike
Thanks for your reply.
I was just thinking on the lines of white text on black back ground, just a quick simple "title" is where i was coming from. Nothing fancy just good bold text.
PJ
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Jackson Media and Trevonne Stage School
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