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Re: Text Track: Positioning, Converting to Video... nothing works

At 13:14 -0700 6/5/03, Ben Sharvy wrote: 
The problem is that different browsers render the spacing in the text track
differently, so that sometimes text near the bottom gets shoved off the bottom
of the frame and isn't visible.

The problem is not the browsers but the platforms. Macs render at 72 dpi while PeeCeez use 96 dpi making all your text appear larger on Windblows.

The difference between Macs would be because the font is not exactly the same one.


My next attempted solution was to convert the text track to a PNG compressed
video track. I can't get the parts of the text track which are supposed to be
transparent to be transparent. Depending on graphics mode, the area is either
white or blended, or the entire track, including text, disappears. I'm using
the Quicktime Player Pro for all this.

Adding PNGs to your project may increase the file size too much. In any case, I just made a PNG from Photoshop (one single layer of text, no background, transparency around the text), the PNG was set to keep the transparency in the Export for Web option (to keep the alpha channel), then in the QT Player just selected to use "Straight Alpha" for the graphics mode. Having said this, using PNGs will increase your filesize.

I think you are almost there in your process.

From what I gather you're creating a sequence based on a series of images, then rendering that to Sorenson Video 3 and later adding the text track.

Is there any reason for that particular workflow? What about making your image sequence, then adding the text track and finally rendering the video to Sorenson Video? That would "burn" the text on the video track making it look the same always.


If you must keep the text as a text track I'd recommend making room in your text samples so the text can "grow" on Windows without breaking things. Since you're laying out the text via spaces and new lines, that will have a huge impact when displayed at a different resolution.

Yet another alternative that would keep your font is to use a Flash track with your text and apply the same straight alpha graphic mode in the QT Player. At that point maybe doing the whole thing in Flash would be a better option than using QuickTime's very (super) limited text capability.


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