Basic Applications - Videonics TM-2000 Instruction Manual

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• Create and hold over 8000 characters of text, divided into hundreds of
pages. Divide your pages into projects.
• Copy and move text, to revise titles without retyping.
• Position text anywhere on the page, including automatic centering.
• Choose from a wide variety of fonts and sizes.
• Choose different styles. You can change the letter spacing, make the letters
bold, and add outlines or shadows to the titles.
• Apply a pattern and any of a million colors to titles, backgrounds, outlines,
and borders.
• Use transitions (fades and wipes) to start or end each page of titles.
• Use scrolls and crawls to move titles on or off the screen.

Basic Applications

TitleMaker 2000 can be used in live or taped settings. Chapter 20, "Editing,
Presentations, and Other Applications," describes these functions in more
detail and explains how they are accomplished with the TitleMaker 2000.
• You can add titles as you copy or edit tapes. The original tape remains
untouched — titles are added to the edited copy. TitleMaker 2000 works
with VCRs and camcorders of all videotape formats. You can superimpose
titles on live video or on colored backgrounds, using fades and wipes to
transition between plain video and video with titles.
For example, you might start a basketball video with a solid color screen with the
title of the video. The names of the players could scroll onto the background. Then
the titles could fade away. As the players run onto the court, their names appear,
superimposed over the image at the bottom of the screen. The last name fades away
as play begins. A player makes a difficult basket and the crowd roars! The score
appears over a wildly- colored, animated background pattern and scrolls off the
screen as play continues.
• You can present a running slate of on-screen titles for display, video-DJ,
point-of-sale, or "video-billboard" applications. You can place titles on top
of colored or patterned backgrounds or on live or taped video material.
For example, a hotel has monitors in the lobby. A video describing the hotel's
facilities plays. Meanwhile, information about the day's scheduled events are
superimposed using the TitleMaker 2000 with messages like "Business Effective-
ness Seminar: Ballroom G." At dinnertime, the hotel manager changes the titles to
advertise the restaurant specials: "Prime Rib Special today in the Mezzanine
Grill."
Another example is the use of TitleMaker 2000 for business presentations. Instead
of using transparencies or charts, you can create titles, using the colors, back-
grounds, effects, and other features to emphasize the important points and make
the presentation dynamic and exciting. You can also use the superimpose feature
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