6.3 Title and Credits

Below is a template title-section which illustrates all the possible settings that can be specified. The same structure goes for credits-section as well.

(title-section

; Background description, 4 possible types shown below,

; but use only one!

; 1. a picture, typically jpg

(background (image "personal1.jpg"))

; 2. solid background color, in RGB format, [default]

(background (color 0 0 0))

; 3. video clip:See note below on usage of video files

(background (video "intro_30.avi"))

; 4. arbitrary effect.

(background (color 0xFFFFFF)

(fx ...arbitrary effect to use as background ...))

; Foreground object.

(foreground (fx ...global effect...))

; Optional background audio file.

; The keyword arguments are optional.

(audio-clip "personal.mp3" gaindb: 0.0 fadein: 0.0 fadeout: 0.0)

; Text description

(text

; Text's color, in RGB format [default]

(color 255 255 255)

; Font - using Win32's LOGFONT structure

(font "-32,0,0,0,500,0,0,0,0,3,2,1,2,Batik Regular")

; Layout rectangle, in normalised coords

; [default is TV-safe region]

(layout (0.1 0.1) (0.9 0.9))

; Text animation, You can use zero or more of these.

(fade-in duration: d

initial: 0.0

final: 1.0)

(fade-out duration: d

initial: 1.0

final: 0.0)

(zoom-in)

(zoom-out)

(typewriter)

(color-reverse)

; Basic shadow effects, choose one [default is no shadow]

(soft-shadow dx: 1.0 dy: 1.0 size: 3.0)

(hard-shadow dx: 1.0 dy: 1.0 size: 3.0)

(inner-shadow dx: 1.0 dy: 1.0 size: 3.0)

; Text alignment - horizontal=left|center|right

; and vertical=top|center|bottom

(align 'center 'center)

; Besides the above, you can explicitly specify any parameter

; exposed by [[TextOut]] using <param> tags.

(custom-parameters

(param "TextFade" 0.0

(at (effect-time 0.0) 0.0)

(linear (effect-time 2.0) 0.0)

(linear (effect-time 3.0) 1.0)))))

See also Title to Body and Body to Credits transitions