default settings and moving cursor

art-l wrote on 4/9/2022, 7:59 PM

Movie Studio 2022 Platinum V.21.0.2.138. I want to know how to change the default font and font size for titles. Also, when using the time window in the upper left hand corner to move the cursor to a specific spot, it goes to :29 instead of :00. Then each time I enter a zero, it goes back one second. Is there a different way I should using a "Go to" function?

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Former user wrote on 4/9/2022, 8:18 PM

@art-l Hi,

to save the default, click the T at the top of the timeline to add text, use the little downward arrow at the top of the control window - Save as Title Template, save as Title & let it overnight the one there.

art-l wrote on 4/9/2022, 9:13 PM

So if I want to move the cursor [playback marker?] to15 seconds, for example, from 08:15, I enter 15 in the seconds box, but then cursor moves to 15:29 rather than 15:00. It doesn't do this all the time but often enough to be very annoying. Found the "Save as title template," thank you.

AAProds wrote on 4/9/2022, 9:30 PM

@art-l

Other enterable time boxes behave in the same weird way eg length of still images: type in the seconds and frame number increases by 1. I agree, most annoying. Just another Magix quirk that I really should put in a bug report about! 😂

Former user wrote on 4/9/2022, 9:40 PM

@art-l Hi, i deleted part of my last comment because it's hard to describe, for me anyway 😂, the time box at the top is hrs:mins:secs:frames, so it will depend on the frame rate of your project, if your project is 30fps & you type 00:00:00:30 it will auto to 00:00:01:00 because 30frames = 1 second.

You'll have to experiment to see what 00:00:00:30 &/or 00:00:00:29 does on a 29.97fps project, but it might be easier just to set your project at a full 30fps, then you can work in whole numbers instead of 29.97fps.

art-l wrote on 4/9/2022, 10:01 PM

so instead of 00:00:15:00, then 00:00:14:30

johnebaker wrote on 4/10/2022, 4:04 AM

@art-l

An alternative method to move quickly through the timeline, especially if you repeatedly jump to specific points in the timeline is to use Markers - more information on these is in the manual under Help.

HTH

John EB
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