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  • Page 1 Personal TitleMaker PTM–1 User Guide Table of Contents MANL-0715-01...
  • Page 2 Disclaimers Television screens are simulated. Subject to change without notice. This device is not to be used for the unau- thorized copying of copyrighted material. Trademarks TitleMaker is a trademark of Videonics, Inc.The Videonics logo, Thumbs Up, and Videonics Video TitleMaker are registered trademarks of Videonics, Inc.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    1 Introduction Major Features ..........2 Personal TitleMaker Package Contents .
  • Page 4 Contents 4 Personal TitleMaker Tutorial What You Need ..........34 Objective .
  • Page 5 Page Attributes ..........69 Setting In Effects and Page Duration .
  • Page 6 Contents 8 Working with Menus Menu Structures ..........90 The Color Menus .
  • Page 7 A Personal TitleMaker Demo Running a Locked Demo ........128 Using the Demo as a Boilerplate .
  • Page 8 Notes ®...

  • Page 9: Introduction

    FONT LETTER OUTLINE BORDERS BACKGROUND POWER FONT & STYLE COLOR PATTERN COLOR PATTERN COLOR STYLE COLOR PATTERN DEMO SIZE & " ¢ £ ¥ ® © • ™ Æ ß § caps lock < Ç “ shift accent PLAY Welcome to Videonics Personal TitleMaker (PTM–1), and thank you for buying Videonics products.

  • Page 10: Major Features

    Personal TitleMaker AJOR EATURES Logical Work Organization — Organize your work by pages within projects. Pages can contain multiple titles (or, lines of text). Assign names to your projects for easy identification. Personal TitleMaker automatically numbers pages sequentially within each project. Classical Fonts —...

  • Page 11: Personal Titlemaker Package Contents

    Chapter 1 Memory Capacity — Personal TitleMaker stores more than 4,000 char- acters. Character storage is supported by a replaceable lithium battery. All characters remain in memory even when you turn off or unplug Per- sonal TitleMaker. So, all titles you create can be retained until you are ready to remove them.

  • Page 12: Contacting Videonics

    Personal TitleMaker ONTACTING Videonics provides technical and general support for all its products. The following table provides information for contacting us with your suggestions, questions, and problems. Table 1: Videonics Contacts Department Corporate Headquarters Main Phone Number Main Fax Number Product Information Information via E-Mail Technical Support...

  • Page 13: About This User Guide

    Chapter 1 BOUT THIS This User Guide contains the chapters, appendixes, and other sections shown in the following table. Table 2: User Guide Contents Section or Chapter Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Installation Procedures Chapter 3 Getting Started Chapter 4 Personal TitleMaker Tutorial Chapter 5 Working with Projects...

  • Page 14: Conventions

    Personal TitleMaker Table 2: User Guide Contents (Continued) Section or Chapter Chapter 10 Working with Borders Chapter 11 Working with Backgrounds Chapter 12 Playing and Recording Projects Appendix A Personal TitleMaker Demo Appendix B International Character Sets Appendix C Building and Using a GPI Device Glossary Index...

  • Page 15: Personal Titlemaker Keys

    Chapter 1 Note Notes contain information to supplement the other information contained throughout the guide. CAUTION Cautions warn that if you continue with what you are doing there is a danger of losing information. WARNING! Warnings mean stop what you are doing because there is danger of losing information or possibly damaging your equipment.
  • Page 16 Notes ®...

  • Page 17: Installation Procedures

    Installation Procedures 00:00 This chapter explains how to set up Personal TitleMaker in conjunction with your video equipment. The basic, typical configuration includes: • An input device • The Personal TitleMaker • An output device In addition to these devices, you also need the proper cables for connecting the equipment.
  • Page 18 Personal TitleMaker CAUTION connect both a Composite and S-Video device at the same time. If you mix device types, the warning message shown here appears. When connecting Personal TitleMaker to a power source for extended periods, the unit might feel warm to the touch. This is normal. When you turn off power to the unit, video routes from the video input device to the video output device, but no titles are added.

  • Page 19: Basic Configuration

    Chapter 2 ASIC ONFIGURATION The following illustration shows the basic configuration for the Per- sonal TitleMaker and video equipment. Video Monitor Output Device Device Types Use either Composite or S–Video devices as input and output. The two types of devices have different connectors and, therefore, require the proper cables.

  • Page 20: Input Devices

    Personal TitleMaker Input Devices Output Devices 00:00 must be able to record. You might use a VCR or camcorder for this pur- pose. You can use a video monitor (that is, a television set) as the output device. In this case, you can display the titles with the input video on the monitor, but you cannot record the program.

  • Page 21: Basic Configurations

    Chapter 2 ASIC ONFIGURATIONS This section describes two common configurations. Configuration 1 Use the following configuration to record video and titles to a video tape and view the output program on a video monitor. To make the connections for this configuration: Locate the power supply unit in the Personal TitleMaker package.
  • Page 22 Personal TitleMaker Configuration 2 Use this configuration to display titles atop an incoming video signal, but you cannot record the finished program to tape. To make the connections for this configuration: Locate the power supply unit in the Personal TitleMaker package.

  • Page 23: Configuration 2

    Chapter 2 THER ONFIGURATIONS You can include other video equipment (such as a Videonics video mixer) in a configuration for extended functionality. You can also use a GPI (General Purpose Interface) device to control productions exter- nally. This section explains these other configurations. Using Other Videonics Equipment If you own a Videonics Thumbs Up or Video Mixer, you can include it in your configuration.

  • Page 24: Using Gpi With Personal Titlemaker

    Personal TitleMaker Using GPI with Personal TitleMaker You can control Personal TitleMaker from a GPI device. Some edit con- trollers, such as the Videonics Thumbs Up, have a GPI output that can trigger events on Personal TitleMaker. Note If you don’t currently have a GPI device but might like to build a simple version, see Appendix C, Building and Using a GPI Device for a set of plans.

  • Page 25: Troubleshooting

    Chapter 2 ROUBLESHOOTING If you encounter problems after setting up your equipment, check the following items. • Double-check all connections against the diagrams provided in this chapter. Many problems result from cabling mistakes. • If you are using a video monitor, make sure it is set properly to monitor the video and that the output device (such as a VCR) is also set correctly.
  • Page 26 Notes ®...

  • Page 27: Getting Started

    This chapter discusses basic concepts necessary to under- stand and use Personal TitleMaker to its maximum benefit and potential. Topics include: • Understanding the Personal TitleMaker keyboard • Understanding Personal TitleMaker components (projects, pages, titles, lines, and characters) • Main Personal TitleMaker Screens •...

  • Page 28: Understanding The Keyboard

    Personal TitleMaker NDERSTANDING THE The Personal TitleMaker keyboard resembles a standard computer key- board, but includes many special keys to help use the features built into the unit. The illustration on the following page shows the keyboard and identi- fies the various keys and key groups. Brief descriptions of most keys fol- low.
  • Page 29 Chapter 3 Getting Started For other keyboard layouts, see Appendix B, International Character Sets...
  • Page 30 Personal TitleMaker Detailed information about each of the function keys appears in vari- ous sections of this guide. Refer to the index for specific references. Arrow Keys — Use the four arrow keys to position the cursor on the editing screen, select items from menus, and, when playing pages, go forward and backward to the previous and next pages.
  • Page 31 Chapter 3 Alphanumeric Keypad — Contains the standard alpha and numeric keys for entering title text. Many of the keys have one or two special symbols at the top of the key. When used in conjunction with , you can enter many different special characters. ACCENT Table 3: Examples of Special Characters Key Strokes and Combinations...

  • Page 32: Understanding Components

    Personal TitleMaker NDERSTANDING To easily manage Personal TitleMaker work, organize it into different components — projects, pages, titles, and lines. Title 1 Line 1 Line 2 Title 1 Line 1 Line 2 Projects You can store several different projects on Personal TitleMaker at the same time.

  • Page 33: Titles And Lines

    Chapter 3 Pages Personal TitleMaker projects normally contain one or more pages. Each page can contain information that displays and/or records on an output device, one at a time. The first page in a family reunion project might show the Title 1 date and place where the event occurred.

  • Page 34: Personal Titlemaker Screens

    Personal TitleMaker ERSONAL ITLE Personal TitleMaker has two screens where you do most all work — the Page Index Screen and the Editing Screen. This guide references these two screens numerous times, so you must be able to identify them. There is also the Play Screen, where Personal TitleMaker plays a project complete with titles and all effects.

  • Page 35: Navigating The Page Index Screen

    Chapter 3 The Project Icon and Number indicate the project to which the page belongs. In the above example, the page belongs to project 2. The Page Icon and Number indicate the sequential position of the page within the project. The above example indicates page 1. Page Title Text shows the text used on the page.

  • Page 36: Editing Screen

    Personal TitleMaker Table 4: Page Index Navigation Keys (Continued) Movement Up to First Line in Preceding Project Down to First Line in Next Project Down to Next Full Screen of Items Exit to Editing Screen Editing Screen Use the Editing Screen to create titles. You can type title text on the screen, set font attributes, create borders and backgrounds for pages, and much more.

  • Page 37: Navigating The Editing Screen

    Chapter 3 Navigating the Editing Screen To find a specific page, locate the page header on the Editing Screen. You can do this in many ways. The Cursor always marks the current position on a page and within a title or line. To work with a different page, title, or line, move the cursor to that item.

  • Page 38: Play Screen

    Personal TitleMaker Play Screen The Play Screen appears when you play back Personal TitleMaker pro- ductions. To access the Play Screen, locate the project you want to play, then press the PLAY PLAY With the Play Screen visible and active, you can use many different keys to control playback.

  • Page 39: Running The Personal Titlemaker Demo

    Chapter 3 UNNING THE Personal TitleMaker contains a demonstration project created by Vide- onics. The demo has two primary purposes: • Shows many of the effects you can create in your own produc- tions; and, • Provides boilerplates you can use as a starting point to create pages and titles.

  • Page 40: About The Lithium Battery

    Personal TitleMaker BOUT THE ITHIUM Personal TitleMaker contains a lithium battery which permits storage of slightly more than 4,000 characters. The battery supports the unit’s memory, so when you turn off or unplug the unit your work remains in the memory banks. When you turn Personal TitleMaker on, all informa- tion stored in memory is immediately available.

  • Page 41: Personal Titlemaker Tutorial

    CHAPTER 4 Personal TitleMaker Tutorial Using Personal TitleMaker is a creative process, which means there is no “right” or “wrong” way of doing things. What you do and how you do it is completely up to your imagination. This tutorial teaches you basic procedures. Once you understand the basics, you can branch out and introduce your own imaginative concepts.

  • Page 42: What You Need

    Personal TitleMaker later lessons, you’ll only be instructed to create a new page without fur- ther details. This helps you exercise what you learn along the way so that the procedures remain with you. First, as stated above, make sure your equipment is set up and working correctly.

  • Page 43: Objective

    Chapter 4 BJECTIVE The objective of the tutorial is to create a series of titles for a video tour of London, England. The tutorial consists of 12 pages, with separate titles on each page. All of the pages together form a Personal TitleMaker project, which you’ll give an appropriate name.

  • Page 44: Lesson 1 • Getting Started

    Personal TitleMaker ESSON ETTING TARTED This lesson explains how to power up the equipment and create a new project. Press POWER DEMO provide power to the unit. Turn on your output device (VCR) and video monitor. You don’t need to turn on the input device at this point, although you can do so if you wish.

  • Page 45: Lesson 2 • Create

    Chapter 4 Press UP ARROW line so you can enter a name for the new project. The blinking cursor appears just to the right of the left square bracket ([). At the far right end of the line is a square right bracket (]).

  • Page 46: Lesson 3 • Create

    Personal TitleMaker Press that they are on either side of the black color bar. Press NEW LINE OK When you return to the Editing Screen, note that the background is black. Personal TitleMaker displays the chosen background for the page that contains the cursor. Also note that just above the blink- ing cursor is an infinity symbol ( ) inside a box.
  • Page 47 Chapter 4 Press the highlight bars to font number 6, then press When you return to the Editing Screen, the text of the two lines appears in the font you just selected. Press UNDO text. Press and release Press and release posn This positions the title lines at the top of the page.

  • Page 48: Lesson 4 • Create

    Personal TitleMaker 14 Press once more to move to the bottom sub-menu, use ARROW the clock), then type 15. 0:01.5 This step sets the page’s duration to 1.5 seconds (the amount of time the page remains on the screen). You do not need to type the decimal point between the 1 and 5, Personal TitleMaker under- stands what you want to enter.
  • Page 49 Chapter 4 Press LEFT ARROW on page two (just after London), then press Move the cursor to the beginning of the page (just in front of Touring), then press You are marking the text you need to copy to page three. Move the cursor back down to page three, press press UNDO...

  • Page 50: Lesson 5 • Create

    Personal TitleMaker and then return as part of the next page. A cut transition makes the title appear to remain on screen even though a different page is displayed. Setting this page for infinite duration lets you control the exact moment at which you want to remove it from the screen and go on to the next page.
  • Page 51 Chapter 4 For the following steps, if you want to be able to see your input video on the screen when setting the background pattern, turn on your input device and start the tape rolling. You might have to go into the tape sev- eral seconds before scenes begin to appear.

  • Page 52: Lesson 6 • Create

    Personal TitleMaker ESSON REATE Picadilly Circus Create a new page following page four. Type P ICADILLY You can leave the font exactly as entered, or change it if you wish. If you mark the text and change the font, however, be sure to press afterward to remove the markers.
  • Page 53 Chapter 4 Press to move to the lower sub-menu, then press and hold the RIGHT marker to about one-third of the way between the solid box icon on the left and the video icon on the right. Set marker about one-third of the way along the slider What you have just done creates a 33%-transparent background for the page using the background color you selected.

  • Page 54: Lesson 7 • Create

    Personal TitleMaker ESSON REATE Create the new page following page five. Set the page’s in transition to a medium speed cut and set its duration to infinite. Set the page’s out transition to a medium speed cut. ESSON HECK You’ve now created half of the required pages for the tutorial. It’s a good time to play back the pages in the project to see how you’ve done.
  • Page 55 Chapter 4 Page two fades into view, remains on screen for 1.5 seconds, then page three plays automatically. You should see the line of bullet symbols and the year (1997) cut onto the screen. This page is also set for infinite duration, so it remains on screen until you manually remove it.

  • Page 56: Lesson 9 • Create

    Personal TitleMaker ESSON REATE Parliament Big Ben Create the new page immediately following page six. Enter the text for the titles: P Align the text at the top of the page. Hint: , twice. ARROW Set the page’s in transition and duration to whatever you want it to be.
  • Page 57 Chapter 4 Enter the following text, all on one line. Note that as you type past the right edge of the screen, it automatically scrolls to the left so that you can see what you are typing. Although the characters aren’t visible toward the beginning of the line, they are still there.

  • Page 58: Lesson 11 • Create Pages Nine And Ten

    Personal TitleMaker ESSON REATE AGES Create page ten immediately following page nine. Type T , press Press BACKGROUND option in the top sub-menu. Pixel Pattern Icon Press to go to the second sub-menu, then select pattern option number 01. Press BACKGROUND then PRESS NEW LINE OK...

  • Page 59: Lesson 12 • Create

    Chapter 4 Press EFFECTS the transition speed to 5, and set the page duration to 2.0 seconds. Slide Down Transition Effect 10 Press EFFECTS set the speed to 5. Slide Up Transition Effect 11 Press UNDO ESSON REATE Page eleven scrolls the production credits from off- Video screen bottom to off-screen top.

  • Page 60: Lesson 13 • Create

    Personal TitleMaker Use the same technique to select font number one for lines two, four, and six. Press EFFECTS option in the bottom sub-menu. Scroll Option Remember, when you use the scroll or crawl option Personal Title- Maker ignores any transitions set for the page. ESSON REATE When you finish the page, refer back to “Lesson 8 Check Your Progress”...

  • Page 61: Working With Projects

    Working with Projects A Personal TitleMaker Project represents one logical unit of work. Perhaps you just returned from a Caribbean cruise and want to add titles to the video footage to show the places you visited. The footage and associated titles repre- sent one Personal TitleMaker project.

  • Page 62: Project Uses

    Personal TitleMaker ROJECT Here are some ways you might find Personal TitleMaker projects useful. • Projects are convenient for storing titles for multiple jobs. For example, you might shoot three separate, unrelated events in a single week. Making each event a separate project helps you control the material and prevent accidental changes to a project.

  • Page 63: Naming Projects

    Chapter 5 CAUTION After creating a new project, you should add at least one title to it, or give it a name (as described in the next section). If you don’t do one of these steps, Personal TitleMaker automati- cally deletes the project the next time you display, then exit, the Page Index Screen.

  • Page 64: Renaming Projects

    Personal TitleMaker Use the ARROW first square bracket, then type the project name. In the fol- lowing example, the project number is 2 and the assigned project name is Vacation Video. Renaming Projects To rename an existing project: Proceed as explained in the previous section to display the Page Index Screen.
  • Page 65 Chapter 5 Press to delete the current project. Personal TitleMaker displays a graphic of a trash can and other symbols. To delete the project, press delete the project, type the letter To empty a project: If necessary, press want to empty on the Page Index Screen. Use the ARROW project you want to empty.

  • Page 66: About Empty Projects

    Personal TitleMaker About Empty Projects Keep in mind these general rules about projects: • When you leave the Page Index Screen (such as when going to the Editing Screen), Personal TitleMaker checks to see if there are any empty projects. If a project is empty but the cursor is positioned within the project, Personal TitleMaker does not delete the project.

  • Page 67: Copying And Moving Project Text

    Chapter 5 OPYING AND You can copy and move text from one project to another. For example, you might have a standard set of opening credits stored in a permanent project named Credits. When you begin a new production, copy the standard credits from the Credits project to the new project.
  • Page 68 Notes ®...

  • Page 69: Working With Pages

    Working with Pages The Personal TitleMaker can hold more than 4,000 charac- ters. You normally divide the characters into logical group- ings called Pages. Personal TitleMaker projects normally consists of one or more pages. (A project can exist without any pages, but this is not a normal situation.) Pages normally contain one or more titles.

  • Page 70: Identifying

    Personal TitleMaker the maximum character limit of 4,000+ characters or 40 lines per page. If you exceed the limit, Personal TitleMaker displays a memory warning message and refuses to accept any more characters. You must delete some existing projects, pages, titles, and/or lines in order to continue. To check how much memory is available, enter to clear the memory screen.

  • Page 71: Editing Screen

    Chapter 6 Each page item shows the following (refer to the first page item in the preceding illustration for an example): • An icon and number indicate the project to which the page belongs. This example shows a page that is part of project num- ber 2 (which is named Vacation Video).
  • Page 72 Personal TitleMaker When the Editing Screen appears, the cursor appears in the page you specified on the Page Index Screen. Use the keys to move the cursor to any other page. See “Navigating the Editing Screen” on page 29 for instructions. Page Item Information Each page item on the Editing Screen contains a page header section that shows information about the page.

  • Page 73: Creating

    Chapter 6 The Page Duration area shows how long the page remains on the screen. In the example above, an infinity symbol appears, indicating that this particular page remains on the screen until you remove it by some specific action (such as pressing the set the page for infinite duration, scroll, or crawl, a corresponding sym- bol appears here.

  • Page 74: Moving And Copying

    Personal TitleMaker appear at the same time. If you want the program name to appear on one page and the date to appear on a different page, you can easily split the two. To create a new page from an existing page: On the Editing Screen, position the cursor at the exact loca- tion where you want the split to occur.

  • Page 75: Merging

    Chapter 6 Note A shortcut method for marking everything on a page is to posi- tion the cursor anywhere within the page, press , the press START Move the cursor to the exact position to which you want to move or copy the marked text. To move the marked text, press To copy the marked text, press ERGING...

  • Page 76: Deleting

    Personal TitleMaker ELETING AGES You can easily delete pages from any project. Mark the start and end positions of the page or pages you want to delete. The [ symbol indicates the start position: the ] symbol indicates the ending position. To delete one or more pages: Locate the page or pages you want to delete on the Editing Screen.

  • Page 77: Page Attributes

    Chapter 6 TTRIBUTES Every page has attributes that control the way the page displays during playback. You learned a little about three of these attributes (in effect, page duration, and out effect) under “Page Item Information” on page 64. Another attribute you can specify for a page is its background. This section explains how to set page attributes.

  • Page 78: Setting Out Effects

    Personal TitleMaker ARROW determines how fast the transition runs. Speed 1 is slowest, 8 fastest. Experiment with different speeds to find the one that works best with a page. Press to move to the Duration sub-menu. ARROW See “Setting Page Duration” later in this chapter for more information about the options and how to use them.

  • Page 79: Cut Transition

    Chapter 6 The same set of transitions is available for pages entering and exiting the screen. To choose a transition, press either entering) or EFFECTS tioned in the page on the Editing Screen. The transition sub-menu appears at the top of the screen in each case. Fade Cut Transition There is only one cut transition.

  • Page 80: Slide Transitions

    Personal TitleMaker Slide Transitions There are four slide transitions from which to choose. A slide transition moves the page title(s) up, down, left, or right on the screen until they either appear or disappear completely. Slide transitions can be used with either In or Out Effects.

  • Page 81: Timed Duration

    Chapter 6 Timed Duration Use Timed Duration to control the exact length of time the page remains on-screen. The value is in the format m:ss.n — where m=min- utes, ss=seconds, and n=tenths of a second. You can set the value from 0:00.0 to 9:59.9 (just under 10 minutes).
  • Page 82 Personal TitleMaker Crawl causes the page to roll horizontally on the screen, beginning off- screen right and finishing off-screen left. If the page contains more than one title line, Personal TitleMaker inserts a space between them. If two lines have different attributes (such as font, color, style, and so forth), the first line must exit the screen before the second line can begin to crawl.

  • Page 83: Using Backgrounds

    Chapter 6 SING ACKGROUNDS Every Personal TitleMaker page has a background. You can select from four different types of backgrounds: • Solid color • Pixel pattern • Rainbow gradient • Video To specify a background color and/or pattern: On the Editing Screen, insert the cursor in the page you want to set.
  • Page 84 Notes ®...

  • Page 85: Working With Titles And Lines

    Working with Titles and Lines Titles normally consist of one or more Lines of text (or, character strings). The titles and lines contained within any given page appear on the screen when you play a project. Pages appear one at a time, so the titles and lines for the page appear only when the page is displayed.

  • Page 86: Typing Titles

    Personal TitleMaker YPING ITLES To create new titles, position the cursor where you want to type, then type the characters on the Personal TitleMaker keyboard. Suppose, for example, you want to create two pages with separate titles. The first page contains the title “Sherlock Holmes” (stacked vertically) and the second page “221B Baker Street.

  • Page 87: Memory Warning

    Chapter 7 If you type a long line of text that extends beyond the edge of the screen, you might not be able to see some of the characters. The char- acters, however, still exist. Move the cursor past the edge of the screen and the invisible text scrolls into view.

  • Page 88: Creating Tabular Columns

    Personal TitleMaker Creating Tabular Columns to create columns of information on a page. The tab function works by aligning text with the next blank space in the previous line. For example, you can create a table of parts showing part number, descrip- tion, and unit cost.

  • Page 89: Typing Special And Accented Characters

    Chapter 7 Typing Special and Accented Characters Personal TitleMaker contains many special characters, such as ® and , and many accented characters for use with other languages. Most keys show the characters that result from typing the key in combina- tion with a modifier key, such as the to enter the Yen symbol (¥).

  • Page 90: Reversing Text Changes

    Personal TitleMaker Reversing Text Changes , in most cases, reverses the last action you performed. For UNDO example, if you press undo from a title, then change your mind, immediately press restore the last character you deleted. works only on the last action you performed. In the preceding UNDO example, the first time you press deleted.

  • Page 91: Marking Pages And Lines

    Chapter 7 To change the location of the markers: Move the cursor to the position where you want to set the marker. Press MARK START to change the end marker. To remove a set of markers: Press UNDO Marking Pages and Lines To copy, move, or otherwise change an entire page, position the cursor at the end of the preceding line, rather than at the beginning of the line you want to mark.

  • Page 92: Deleting Marked Text

    Personal TitleMaker Deleting Marked Text To delete marked text: Mark the text as described above. If necessary, position the fat cursor immediately after the end marker. The cursor must be in this position. Press DELETE If after deleting the text you change your mind, immediately press .

  • Page 93: Making Multiple Copies

    Chapter 7 Attributes of Moved and Copied Text When you want to preserve all attributes (font, color, style, and so forth) of a text block you are moving or copying, set the start marker at the end of the line preceding the one you want to move or copy. When you want the text block you are moving or copying to inherit the attributes of the line immediately preceding it, set the start marker at the beginning of the line you are moving or copying.

  • Page 94: Positioning Titles On A Page

    Personal TitleMaker OSITIONING You can center each title on a page, or align it against the left or right edge. You can also set vertical positioning at the top, middle, or bottom of the page. When you type text, it appears (by default) at the center of the screen.

  • Page 95: Vertical Positioning

    Chapter 7 Vertical Positioning Use vertical positioning to align titles at the top, middle, or bottom of the page. Rolling Stones World Tour 1997 To position a title vertically: Insert the cursor in the title you want to adjust, or mark the text in a block of titles.

  • Page 96: Text Attributes

    Personal TitleMaker TTRIBUTES All Personal TitleMaker text has attributes, which define everything about the text, including font, size, letter spacing, color, and so forth. The first title you create receives a set of default attributes. Thereafter, all subsequent titles inherent their attributes from the character that precedes the cursor.

  • Page 97: Working With Menus

    FONT LETTER FONT & STYLE COLOR PATTERN SIZE Menus provide quick and easy access to many of Personal TitleMaker’s most frequently used features. This chapter explains how to access the various menus and how to work with them. The menu keys appear along the top of the Personal Title- Maker keyboard.

  • Page 98: Menu Structures

    Personal TitleMaker TRUCTURES Most Personal TitleMaker menus contain sub-menus. The sub-menus represent categories within the main menu. For example the menu contains sub-menus for selecting various font styles. The black bar indicates the current selection. This sample menu contains three sub-menus. The first sub-menu con- tains choices for adding outlines or shadows to a title;...

  • Page 99: The Color Menus

    Chapter 8 OLOR The Color menus are available for all but the Font and Effects menus. Current Color Selection Available Colors The Available Colors sub-menu contains an assortment of standard col- ors. Press UP ARROW color you want. Current Color Selection shows which color you’ve selected.
  • Page 100 Personal TitleMaker When you create custom colors, they subsequently appear in the Avail- able Colors sub-menu. You can easily identify custom colors because they have a short color bar. Short color bars identify custom colors. To quickly locate custom colors in the menu, press to highlight the first custom color.

  • Page 101: The Pattern Menus

    Chapter 8 ATTERN A Pattern menu is available for backgrounds, letters, and outlines. A key appears below each of these menu items at the top of the PATTERN keyboard. BACKGROUND COLOR PATTERN Press any PATTERN At the top of the Pattern menu is the Pattern Type sub-menu. The four options shown here represent the following: Solid The Pattern Options area of the Patterns menu changes depending on...

  • Page 102: Mixing Video With A Background Pattern

    Personal TitleMaker Pixel Pattern Option The Pixel option creates a pattern using dots and lines of various styles. When you select this option you can also specify the pattern you want to use from numerous types. See “Selecting Rainbow and Pixel Pat- terns”...

  • Page 103: Selecting Rainbow And Pixel Patterns

    Chapter 8 Selecting Rainbow and Pixel Patterns When selecting the Pixel or Rainbow pattern, you can choose from a wide variety of styles. The available styles appear in a sub-menu. Use the keys to move through the available styles. As you high- ARROW light the individual styles, a swatch at the bottom of the menu previews that item.
  • Page 104 Notes ®...

  • Page 105: Working With Fonts

    Working with Fonts FONT FONT & STYLE SIZE The Personal TitleMaker has several fonts built into the unit. Using the & FONT menus, you can create a wide assortment of fonts. Font determines the style used by a set of characters. For example, the Helvetica font looks much different from the Times font, which looks quite different from the Monaco font.
  • Page 106 Personal TitleMaker Size determines the vertical dimension of a font. Size is normally expressed in points (where 72 points equals one inch, relative). The seven built-in fonts come in fixed point sizes. The following table indi- cates the available size or sizes for each built-in font. Table 6: Built-In Fonts and Sizes Font Name Helvetica...

  • Page 107: Font & Size Menu

    Chapter 9 & S After specifying (or, marking) a title or titles, press play this menu. FONT & SIZE The menu contains two sub-menus — Size Options and Font & Size. The Font & Size sub-menu lists the seven built-in fonts in their specified sizes.

  • Page 108: Style Menu

    Personal TitleMaker Note Doubling the height and/or width of a font reduces the resolu- tion of the characters, thus producing jagged edges. This might be more noticeable with some fonts than others. The Normal Size option always produces smooth fonts. When you highlight a doubling option, Personal TitleMaker previews the effect in the Font &...
  • Page 109 Chapter 9 Letter Spacing options increase/decrease the amount of space between individual characters. Combining large-sized letters with com- pact letter spacing can result in clipping — where parts of some letters might be cut-off — and words that run together. The top line in this example uses normal letter spacing.

  • Page 110: Letter Menus

    Personal TitleMaker ETTER ENUS Use the Letter menus to apply colors and patterns to the characters in titles. Press LETTER choose colors from that menu. Press play and choose patterns from that menu. COLOR PATTERN To learn how to work with these menus, see “The Color Menus”...
  • Page 111 Chapter 9 Working with Fonts...
  • Page 112 Notes ®...

  • Page 113: Working With Borders

    CHAPTER 10 Working with Borders BORDERS COLOR STYLE Borders are useful for highlighting titles and organizing them on the screen. You can assign colors and patterns to borders to make then stand out even more. A border can be a simple horizontal line above and/or below a title, or a border can be like a box than com- pletely encloses a title.

  • Page 114: Border Menus

    Personal TitleMaker ORDER ENUS Specify the color of border you want using the Color menu. Press to display the menu. See “The Color Menus” on page 91 to COLOR learn how to select colors. To specify the style of border, press priate menu.

  • Page 115: Creating Complex Borders

    Chapter 10 When you select Pixel or Rainbow borders you are, in effect, specifying a pattern for the border itself. Border Patterns are similar to any other type of pattern. These options work the same as those on the Pattern menu described on page 93.
  • Page 116 Personal TitleMaker The second example is a simple box with additional lines above and below the box. To create this style of border: Create the box border around the titles as explained above. Add a blank line above the first title in the sequence, then add another below the last title.

  • Page 117: Removing Borders

    Chapter 10 EMOVING ORDERS To remove existing borders: Use the MARK START from which you want to remove the border. Display the Border Styles menu and choose the None border style. keys to mark the titles MARK END Working with Borders...
  • Page 118 Notes ®...

  • Page 119: Working With Backgrounds

    CHAPTER 11 Working with Backgrounds BACKGROUND COLOR PATTERN Every Personal TitleMaker page has a background. You can assign solid colors, pixel patterns, rainbow gradients, and video to the background. Solid colored backgrounds can be made semi-transparent. This permits the incoming video signal to be seen, though subdued, through the specified color.

  • Page 120: Choosing

    Personal TitleMaker HOOSING To specify a background color and/or pattern: On the Editing Screen, insert the cursor in the page you want to set. Press BACKGROUND select the color you want. Color Menu This is the same Color menu that appears when you press any of the other DERS COLOR...

  • Page 121: Background Pattern Types

    Chapter 11 ACKGROUND The top sub-menu in the Pattern menu shows icons for the types of pat- terns you can select. Solid Pattern Solid Patterns When you select the Solid Pattern option, Personal TitleMaker applies whatever color you select in the Background/Color menu. You can make the pattern completely opaque, completely transparent, or any- where between the two (that is, semi-transparent patterns).

  • Page 122: Pixel Patterns

    Personal TitleMaker Pixel Patterns Pixel patterns use randomly placed pixels to form interesting patterns. When you select this type of pattern, you can select from an assort- ment of pre-defined patterns in one of the Pattern sub-menus. When you specify a pixel pattern, titles can appear on top of the pattern.

  • Page 123: Video Background Patterns

    Chapter 11 Video Background Patterns Watch enough television or movies and you’re sure to see this type of effect used quite often. Titles appear superimposed over the video foot- age while the video continues to play. Although a printed page cannot do justice to the video background patterns, you’ve probably seen the effect used frequently in movies and televised programs.
  • Page 124 Notes ®...

  • Page 125: Playing And Recording Projects

    CHAPTER 12 Playing and Recording Projects 00:00 This chapter explains how to play back and, optionally, record finished projects. Playing a project displays the titles, complete with back- grounds, transitions, and all other effects you specify. While playing projects you have many different options for controlling exactly how they play.

  • Page 126: Playback Procedures

    Personal TitleMaker LAYBACK ROCEDURES There are two playback procedures. You can: • Play the pages on a video monitor without recording them. • Play the pages and simultaneously record/display them on an output device, such as a VCR with monitor attached. Both procedures are the same except that when recording you must manually control the output device, such as starting, pausing, and stop- ping the VCR.

  • Page 127: Playback Options

    Chapter 12 LAYBACK PTIONS As indicated at the beginning of this chapter, you can control Personal TitleMaker in many different ways while playing projects. This section summarizes the options. They are explained in detail in the step-by- step instructions. Playing All Pages To play all pages in a project, regardless of the current cursor position: Enter...

  • Page 128: Video Billboards

    Personal TitleMaker To play back a specific range of pages: mark …then… start On the Editing Screen, position the cursor anywhere in the first page of the range you want to play, then press START Move the cursor anywhere in the last page of the range you want to play, then press Press PLAY...

  • Page 129: Controlling Playback Direction

    Chapter 12 The current page remains displayed on the screen, regard- less of its specified duration. Press PLAY Controlling Playback Direction You can manually control the direction (or, sequence) in which pages play. shift shift Playing Pages Manually Manually controlling when pages start and end can be particularly use- ful when you set all pages in a project for infinite duration.

  • Page 130: Manually Controlling Non-Infinite

    Personal TitleMaker By setting all pages for infinite duration, you can press want a page to begin playing, then press So, when the program begins, press page enters, complete with its assigned transition, and remains on the screen indefinitely. Press using its assigned transition, and the next page (a blank one) comes on screen.

  • Page 131: Stopping Playback

    Chapter 12 Press the RIGHT ARROW control. (Note that RIGHT ARROW … … Until you press assigned durations. Thereafter, they play under manual con- trol. To play the next page, press To play the previous page under manual control, press .

  • Page 132: Playing And Recording A Project

    Personal TitleMaker LAYING AND This section explains how to combine pages with an incoming video signal and record the results to an output tape. You use the same steps if you want to display the program without recording it, with the obvi- ous exception that you do not need to control the output device.
  • Page 133 Chapter 12 To play and record a program: Turn on the input device (camcorder), Personal TitleMaker, the output device (VCR), and the video monitor. Prepare Personal TitleMaker as follows: Display the Page Index or Editing Screen. Position the cursor inside any page of the project you want to record.
  • Page 134 Personal TitleMaker Now comes, perhaps, the tricky part. Depending on how you set up the pages in your project, you might have to start the input and output tapes rolling at the same time, and also start the Personal TitleMaker project running.

  • Page 135: A Personal Titlemaker Demo

    Personal TitleMaker Demo Built into Personal TitleMaker is a demonstration (or, demo) project. This project shows some of the high-quality pages you can create with Personal TitleMaker. You can also use the demo project and/or the individual pages within it as a starting point for creating your own projects and pages.

  • Page 136: Running A Locked Demo

    Personal TitleMaker UNNING A OCKED There might be times when you want to start the demo running and have it run unattended. To prevent anyone from stopping the demo, you can run it in locked mode. To run the demo in locked mode: If Personal TitleMaker isn’t already turned on, press the POWER DEMO To run the locked demo in English mode, enter...
  • Page 137 Appendix A You can also use any of the individual pages in the demo project as a boilerplate for creating your own pages. Here again, do this by making a copy of the page or pages you want to use, then modify the copies to your needs.
  • Page 138 Notes ®...

  • Page 139: B International Character Sets

    International Character Sets Built into the Personal TitleMaker are several sets of characters for different international languages, includ- ing: STANDARD English German Spanish Catalan Danish Norwegian Dutch Afrikaans Swahili Tagalog Bahasa– Indonesian BALTIC Estonian Latvian CZECH/SLOVAK Czech Slovak GREEK Greek POLISH Polish CYRILLIC...

  • Page 140: Standard

    Personal TitleMaker shift In each case, the name of the currently selected set appears in the upper-left corner of the screen. Whatever you type on the keyboard gets entered on the page in the currently selected language. In the following tables, an ellipses (…) means release the specified key combination, then type the next sequence.

  • Page 141: Cyrillic

    Appendix B Cyrillic Character Enter … ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+ ACCENT+2 … ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+K ACCENT+2 … K ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+Y ACCENT+2 … y ACCENT+3 … SHIFT+ ACCENT+3 … ACCENT+3 … SHIFT+H ACCENT+3 … H ACCENT+3 … SHIFT+ ACCENT+3 … ACCENT+3 … SHIFT+ ACCENT+3 …...

  • Page 142: Czech/Slovak

    Personal TitleMaker Czech/Slovak Character Enter … ACCENT+4 … SHIFT+A Ä ä ACCENT+4 … a Ô ACCENT+6 … SHIFT+O ô ACCENT+6 … o ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+A Á á ACCENT+2 … a É ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+E é ACCENT+2 … e Í ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+I í...
  • Page 143 Appendix B Czech/Slovak (continued) Character Enter … ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+E ACCENT+9 … e ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+N ACCENT+9 … n ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+R ACCENT+9 … r ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+S ACCENT+9 … s ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+T ACCENT+9 … t ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+Z ACCENT+9 …...

  • Page 144: Baltic

    Personal TitleMaker Baltic Character Enter … ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+A ACCENT+9 … a ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+E ACCENT+9 … e ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+I ACCENT+9 … i ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+O ACCENT+9 … o ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+U ACCENT+9 … u ACCENT+8 … SHIFT+C ACCENT+8 … c ACCENT+8 …...
  • Page 145 Appendix B Baltic (continued) Character Enter … ACCENT+A … SHIFT+A ACCENT+A … a ACCENT+E … SHIFT+E ACCENT+E … e ACCENT+I … SHIFT+I ACCENT+I … i ACCENT+U … SHIFT+U ACCENT+U … u ACCENT+7 … SHIFT+E ACCENT+7 … e International Character Sets...

  • Page 146: Greek

    Personal TitleMaker Greek Character Enter … ACCENT+4 … SHIFT+I Ï ACCENT+4 … i ï ACCENT+4 … SHIFT+Y ACCENT+4 … u ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+A ACCENT+2 … a ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+K ACCENT+2 … n ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+I ACCENT+2 … i ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+O ACCENT+2 …...

  • Page 147: Polish

    Appendix B Polish Character Enter … ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+O ACCENT+2 … o ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+C ACCENT+2 … c ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+N ACCENT+2 … n ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+S ACCENT+2 … s ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+Z ACCENT+2 … z ACCENT+A … SHIFT+A ACCENT+A … a ACCENT+E …...

  • Page 148: Croatian, Slovenian, Albanian

    Personal TitleMaker Croatian, Slovenian, Albanian Character Enter … ACCENT+2 … SHIFT+C ACCENT+2 … c ACCENT+SHIFT+D ACCENT+d ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+C ACCENT+9 … c ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+S ACCENT+9 … s ACCENT+9 … SHIFT+Z ACCENT+9 … z ACCENT+7…SHIFT+C ACCENT+7…c ACCENT+SHIFT+L ACCENT+SHIFT+l ACCENT+4 … SHIFT+E ACCENT+4 …...

  • Page 149: Cryllic Keyboard Layout

    Appendix B International Character Sets Cryllic Keyboard Layout...

  • Page 150: Greek Keyboard Layout

    Personal TitleMaker User Guide Greek Keyboard Layout...
  • Page 151 Appendix C Building and Using a GPI Device You can use a remote push-button device to trigger pages in your Personal TitleMaker projects. If you already have a GPI device you want to use, refer to “Using GPI with Personal TitleMaker” on page 16 to learn how to connect the device.

  • Page 152: Instructions For Building A Gpi Trigger

    Personal TitleMaker NSTRUCTIONS FOR This section contains a diagram of the GPI Trigger Button you can build and all associated instructions. Tools Required A soldering iron and solder Wire cutters An electric drill Instructions: Drill a 1/4-inch hole in the center of one PVC end cap ( a hole to match the push-button switch in the other end cap Feed one end of the cable through the end cap with the 1/4- inch hole (...

  • Page 153: Using A Gpi Trigger Device

    Appendix C Slip the switch into the end cap and secure it using the nut and washer. Solder the other ends of the cable to the plug ( Connect to the tip ( connect anything to the middle section of the plug ( Push the end caps in place.
  • Page 154 Personal TitleMaker Set up your titles, page by page, remembering to insert a blank page with VIDEO background wherever you want titles to appear. When you use Thumbs Up to create the production, it sends a GPI trigger event to Personal TitleMaker at the points you indicate.

  • Page 155: Glossary

    Some terms defined in this glossary might not appear in the text of the User Guide. A/B Roll A term originating in the film world. Normally describes rolling two or more source tapes into an effects device, such as the Videonics MX-Pro, and creating transitions between the various source images.
  • Page 156 Glossary Flying Erase Standard erase heads are mounted along the tape path Heads in a VCR. A flying erase head is built into the video head drum just ahead of the video heads. It makes it possible to erase the video each helical scan at a time resulting in clean video edits with no rainbow effect.
  • Page 157 P hase A lternating L ines. The dominant color television format in Western Europe, Australia, most of Asia, and parts of South America and Africa. PAL is characterized by each frame being composed of 625 horizontal scan- ning lines occurring 25 times per second. (Also see NTSC and SECAM .) RCTC R ewriteable C onsumer T ime C ode (also referred to as...
  • Page 158 Glossary VITC V ertical I nterval T ime C ode. (Pronounced vit-see .) An SMPTE-defined standard for time code, recorded into the video signal during the vertical blanking interval. V ideo T ape R ecorder. Same as VCR (see above) except that this term is normally used in the professional video field.

  • Page 159: Index

    arrow keys 22, 27, 29 background 111 color 38, 112 opaque 94, 113 page 75 pattern 39, 112 types 113 pixel patterns 114 rainbow 114 semi-transparent 44, 113 solid pattern 113 transparent 42, 94, 113 video 42, 94 pattern 115 borders 105 complex 107 menus 106...
  • Page 160 Index GPI 15, 16, 143 plans 144 trigger 145 infinite duration 41, 73, 122 input device 12 International Character Sets 131 keyboard 20 mark end 41, 82 symbol 68 mark start 41, 82 symbol 68 memory warning 62, 79 menu 89 color 91 keys 20, 89 navigating 90...
  • Page 161 header 37, 55 defined 26 icon 27, 63, 64 name 26, 37, 55 navigating 58 number 26, 27, 63, 64 playback 46 recording 124 rename 56 rainbow background 114 rainbow pattern 94 selecting 95 RCA-type jack 11 screen Editing Screen 28, 36 Page Index 26, 36, 54 Play 30 scroll 51, 73...
  • Page 162 Notes ®...

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