Text editing

mosslack

Hello all, new to VideoPad, but I have purchased NCH software in the past. Good experience with those, but I am having some difficulty with the video editor.

First, I am using the completely free version of this software (V 4.14). I have previously used programs like Windows Movie Maker and iMovie to edit videos and have been an active member of YouTube for some time now. I have done more advanced editing in the past using programs like Final Cut Pro, but for now I'm just interested in basic stuff.

There in lies my problem. So far I have been unable to edit a text clip I created for an intro I am working on. Tutorials I have read all say there should be a large "T" to click on to edit a text clip, but I have not seen any such item anywhere on my screen. There is a "T" on the text clip in the bin, but clicking it does nothing.

In WMM, it was a simple task to create a title placeholder and edit the text each time I added a new video to that series. I thought most simple editors would allow this, but I am baffled by the lack of this feature. Obviously it is possible, but so far I have been unable to discover the secret. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

c_major_2

To edit a text clip, just click on the text box on the Clip Preview control panel:

mosslack

This may sound funny, but that box did not appear until just recently. The third test video I made I saw the box and figured it out. Thanks. I'm liking this better now that I'm learning more how to use it. I'm used to WMM so I tried it that way first. Now I see it's better to add and edit the video segments before you add the title and credit screens. I had some problems with artifacts of bits and pieces of the credit screen when I tried to insert a video clip in-between it and the title screen. Took me forever to get rid of it, but I did.