You can use the textBox tag in QuickTime to position text. I always have
trouble getting the textBox tag to work the way I want, but it might help
you position the text without using spaces. You still have the difference
between Windows and Mac to contend with.
(from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tools_tips/tutorials/textdescriptors.html)
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{textBox: top , left , bottom , right }
Used to set the dimensions and location of the textBox relative to the
other visible tracks. Example: {textBox:0, 0, 80, 320} will draw the text
in an 80-pixel-high by 320-pixel-wide box at the the top left of the movie
window.
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Because this tag often frustrates me, I made a short example (excuse the
trite content) which you can see at:
http://www.whitanderson.com/tt/
The text track is reproduced below, but may have line breaks in the wrong
places:
{QTtext}{font:Geneva}{bold}{keyedText:on}{size:14}{textColor: 33333, 99,
11111}{backColor: 0, 0,
0}{justify:left}{timeScale:1000}{width:544}{height:408}{timeStamps:absolute}{lan
guage:0}{textEncoding:0}{doNotAutoScale:off}{clipToTextBox:on}{shrinkTextBox:on}
[00:00:00.000]
{textBox:100, 0, 200, 320}Hello World!
[00:00:02.000]
{textBox:200, 0, 300, 520}Same to you.
[00:00:04.000]
{textBox:0, 150, 300, 520}I've enjoyed your spring this year.
[00:00:06.000]
{textBox:200, 150, 300, 300}Yes, a little damp, but nice.
[00:00:08.000]
{textBox:300, 150, 400, 300}{justify:right}A sunny day redeems it all.
[00:00:10.000]
Notice that I added some tags to the opening tags of your video before the
text begins.
--Whit
>Message: 4
>Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 13:14:49 -0700
>From: Ben Sharvy <email@hidden>
>To: email@hidden
>Subject: Text Track: Positioning, Converting to Video... nothing works
>
>Hi. I'm having a problem overlaying a text track onto a video track. I
>want the
>text to appear in various positions in the movie frame. The method I used to
>position the text within the frame was ye olde spacebar and return key. That
>was the only way I could find to position text, without having many, many
>different text tracks. I am using Quicktime Player Pro to import images and
>a Quicktime text file. (I wrote about this problem a month ago, but in the
>intervening period I've purchased a new Mac, had its CD drive go bad,
>transferred
>files from old to new, and misplaced a bunch of email, including the replies.
>sorry.)
>
>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. Text which is properly positioned on my work
>machine is improperly positioned on Windows machines and even on some
>other Macs.
>I specify font sizes in the text file that Quicktime imports, and I used
>Helevetica, which I think is the most universal font. Nothing works. The
>movie
>is essentially an attempt to merge a poem with some images. It is on the Web
>at: http://homepage.mac.com/bsharvy/dejaindex.html
>
>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.
>
>Finallly, how do I get these emails in one digest form, instead of as
>individual
>emails cluttering up my mailbox?????
>
>--__--__--
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