Add text label to video that only exists for a few frames

[backpack45scb]

I have a video of a wedding party, and I would like to add multiple labels identifying some of the people, the label only showing for a couple of seconds on a 20 second clip. I think this can be done by inserting blank slides as child objects, giving them a transparent background and an absolute start and stop time, but can't find an appropriate tutorial. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks for any suggestions.

[davegee]

You could try using TIME RANGE in the Properties Tab of Objects and Animation to determine the Start and Stop time of the visibility of each Text Label added to the Video Slide.

DG

[backpack45scb]

Thank you. Will try that.

[backpack45scb]

It worked, thanks. Now I'm trying to be more precise. I'd like to understand the time displays in PTE AV better. In this example It looked to me like 53000 to 55000 would be the correct time range, but the real value needed to be 50000-52000.

When I look at the clip on pte, selected, there is a slider with a red line below it on a time scale. Above it is a little blue slider under the video frame that roughly tracks what I am doing dragging the lower slider. The exact position of the slider on the time scale seems to be 2 seconds ahead of what is needed in the properties of the text box.

Any thoughts on this?

[davegee]

It is difficult to tell from your screenshot, but I first suspected that your setting for Key Frames in Preferences/Editor/Key Frames might be to "Show Global Times of Key Frames" (i.e. Ticked"). If so, untick and see if this makes  a difference?

The Time Range settings always refer to the slide being viewed in O&A - Zero is Zero for slide 2 in your case. 

Second thought: The cursor time that you need to use is the one in O&A and not the one in the Time Line view.

DG

[backpack45scb]

The time I see on the timeline is always global time in normal and in o&a view, no matter how the editor preference global time is checked or not. The time value I have to put in the text properties to display at the right time is not the global time. It is zero at start of video clip, as it should be. I can work with this now that I know the displays are always global. It would be nice to have a clip timeline while in o&a but not essential. Thanks for your tips.

[jkb]

28 minutes ago, backpack45scb said:

It would be nice to have a clip timeline while in o&a

Click Tools & untick Global Times (click it)

Jill