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SECTION 11.3 EDITING TITLE PAGES
On mouse-over, title page icons display a configuration (gear) icon in their lower right corner. Clicking this button (or selecting Edit Title in the icon context menu) opens the pop-up Title Page Editor.
Opening the pop-up Title Page Editor during playback is permitted, meaning Title Page content can be edited during both play and display (changes are detected and shown immediately).
Hint: The panel can be re-sized by dragging its lower-right corner, and re-positioned by dragging its titlebar.
When you move the mouse over text in the Title Page Editor’s preview pane, a white bounding-box appears (Figure 198). If you click once inside the box it turns yellow, indicating the text object is selected, and a text edit field opens.
Press Enter or click outside the box to complete editing operations, or press Tab to
advance to next entry field (press Shift + Tab instead to jump to the prior text field).
Note that the cursor keys – that is, the left/right and up/down arrows – allow you to navigate between text fields on the current title page. (If the text edit box is open, left/right arrows change the edit point as usual, but up/down closes the edit box, and subsequent cursor key actions move to the next object.)
Hint: A red line under a character or word (Figure 198) indicates the spell-checker is questioning its spelling. Right-click the word to open a menu suggesting alternatives. Click one of the entries shown if you wish to update the original.
FIGURE 199
The header of the Title Page Editor holds an assortment of text attribute controls. These include a Font selector drop-down menu, numeric Size control, and Bold, Italic, Underline and ‘ALLCAPS’ switches.
The Prev and Next buttons let you store your changes and move to another title page in the playlist without the tedium of closing the Title Edit pane.
SAVE AND DUPLICATE
You can click Close when finished with the current edit, but often you’ll find the Save and Duplicate feature handy. Click
it to store your edits to the current title page, create a clone of item in the playlist, and load the new page for editing.
This is a great way to quickly produce a number of matching pages.
FIGURE 200
Hint: Press Ctrl + s on the keyboard to perform this ‘save and duplicate’ operation without using the mouse. Similarly, PageUp and PageDown keys perform Previous and Next operations.
STAND-IN IMAGES
Images embedded in Title Pages may be locked, or they may be editable stand-ins. When you roll the mouse over an embedded image and a yellow border is displayed around the image, the image is a stand-in. Click a stand-in to open the File Browser, and select a replacement image file.
FIGURE 201
You can check whether images are locked or unlocked (stand-ins), and toggle the lock status. Hold down the Shift key while rolling around inside the Title Page.
With Shift depressed, a red border appears around any locked image under the cursor. Stand-in (unlocked) images show a green border. To toggle the status for an image, left-click it with Shift depressed.
If you right-click a stand-in image, a menu is presented that provides several optional methods of fitting the source image to its frame. Choosing Stretch causes the image to completely fill the frame. Fill Area retains the interested image’s original aspect, cropping if necessary to fit inside the frame. Show All Image also retains the original image aspect, but fits the entire source image inside the frame (which may result in ‘pillar-boxing’ or ‘letter-boxing’).