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TM-2000 Video TitleMaker 2000 Instruction Manual • MANL-0526-02 • © 1994 Videonics,

Inc.
The Videonics logo, Thumbs Up, and Videonics Video TitleMaker are registered trademarks of
Videonics, Inc. TM-2000 and MX-1 Digital Video Mixer are trademarks of Videonics.
Product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
companies and are hereby acknowledged.
Television screens are simulated.
Subject to change without notice.
This device is not to be used for the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material.
Videonics, Inc., 1370 Dell Avenue, Campbell, CA 95008 USA; 408-866-8300

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1. POWER key turns unit on. POWER light illuminates when power is on. When unit is off,
video is passed from VIDEO IN to VIDEO OUT as long as power supply is plugged into
live outlet. All titles and settings are saved when unit is off. Note: To guard against loss
of titles, never unplug unit until power light goes out. (Chapter 3)
2. DEMO. Demonstrates features. You can also copy the demo into the editing area, to
modify it or study how its effects were accomplished. (Chapter 5)
3. POSITION. Press and release this, followed by up or down arrow, to position text at the
top, bottom, or center of the page. Press and release this, then left or right arrow, to
position lines at right, left, or center page. (Chapter 10)
4. TAB. “Smart tab” positions cursor to match spaces in previous line of text. (Chapter 6)
5. SHIFT and CAPS LOCK. Hold SHIFT to type capital letters. CAPS LOCK capitalizes all
typing until pressed again. Note that some fonts have only capital letters. SHIFT is also
used to modify the function of other keys. (Chapters 6, Appendix A)
6. ACCENT. Hold ACCENT while typing a letter key to type the special symbols (•, ©, ¢,
etc.) printed in gold. Use with arrow keys to type arrow characters. Use with accent
marks followed by a letter to type accented international characters such as é, ü, å, etc.
(Chapter 6)
7. COMMAND. Modifies function of other keys. (Appendix A)
8. SPACE BARS. Adds space to text. Both halves behave identically.
9. MENU KEYS. Menus change color, font, style, etc. of lines or pages that contain marked
text or cursor. Use MARK START to change sub-menus, arrow keys to highlight the
desired choice, NEW LINE/OK or PLAY to implement changes. Press UNDO to cancel
the menu and leave titles unchanged. (Chapters 11-17)
10. COPY and MOVE. To copy or move text, mark the text using MARK START and MARK
END, move cursor to desired location, then press COPY or MOVE. (Chapters 7-9)
11. UNDO. If you accidentally delete something, press UNDO immediately.

12. DELETE. Erases marked text, if any. Otherwise, erases character before the cursor.
13. MARK START and MARK END. Mark text to modify, delete, copy, or move it. Position
cursor before first character and press MARK START. Position after last character and
press MARK END. Notice cursor becomes wider to remind you something is marked.
Use UNDO to remove marks. SHIFT, used with a mark key, marks start or end of the
page; COMMAND plus a mark key marks start or end of all text. (Chapters 7-9)
14. ARROW KEYS. Use arrow keys to move cursor on screen; to change highlights in a
menu; and, when playing text, to go forward and backward. SHIFT makes arrow act on
a page at a time; COMMAND with UP or DOWN goes to top or bottom of all text. With
ACCENT, arrows type arrow characters. COMMAND + SHIFT + UP or DOWN moves
you between projects. (Chapter 6, 11, 19)
15. NEW LINE/OK ends a line of text and starts a new one. Also accepts settings of menus,
returns to Editing Screen from Page Index and Play Screens. (Chapter 6)
16. PLAY. After you create titles using the Editing Screen, press PLAY to display the titles for
display or recording. COMMAND + PLAY always plays from first page in project; PLAY
alone plays marked pages or, if none are marked, starts playing from cursor. Once
playing begins: Press PLAY again to go to next page; use SHIFT to play backwards;
press arrow keys to manually step forward or backwards. NEW LINE/OK ends play and
returns to Editing Screen. (Chapter 19)
17. NEW PAGE starts a new page of text. COMMAND + NEW PAGE starts a new project
when Page Index is on screen. (Chapters 7-8)
18. PAGE INDEX. Displays an index in which each page occupies one line, making it easy to
look through all pages and projects. Projects are created and named using PAGE
INDEX. (Chapter 8)
REAR PANEL
IN R L V S OUT R L V S PREVIEW CONTROL POWER
PREVIEW CONTROL
OUT (GPI) POWER
IN OUT
R L V R L V
C A C B D E F G
NOTE: S-video (Y/C) and composite (RCA-style) video jacks are provided. Use same type for
input and output — for instance, if your video source only has RCA jacks, use RCA for
both even if the recorder has S-video.
A. VIDEO IN. Optional. Connect either S-video or RCA type cable from video source.
B. VIDEO OUT. Connect either S-video or RCA type cable (same as used for input) to
recorder or monitor.
C. AUDIO IN and OUT. Audio connections are provided for convenience; the audio
signals pass straight through without modification.
D. PREVIEW OUT. Optional. When used in live title setup, permits you to modify titles and
typing is not seen on main output. Important: Leave unconnected when not in use.
(Chapter 21)
E. CONTROL (GPI). Allows remote trigger of titles using switch or controller with GPI
(“General Purpose Interface”) output. Warning: Always turn power off before connecting
or disconnecting GPI jack. (Chapter 20)
F. POWER. Connect TitleMaker 2000 power supply. Important: Do not use power supplies
designed for any other equipment.
G. Upside-down legends make it easier to make connections without turning unit around.

Contents
Chapter 1 • Introduction ..................... 1 Chapter 7 • Pages .............................. 30
In a Hurry? ................................................ 1 About Pages ........................................... 30
Helpful Hints ............................................. 1 Long Pages ............................................ 30
What is a Video Titler? .............................. 1 Creating a Page ..................................... 30
What is the TitleMaker 2000? ................... 1 Page Symbols ........................................ 31
Basic Applications ................................... 2 Navigating Pages and Projects with the
Equipment ................................................ 3 Page Index ........................................... 31
Deleting a Page ...................................... 32
Chapter 2 • QuickStart ........................ 4 Inserting a Page ..................................... 32
Moving and Copying Pages .................. 33
Chapter 3 • Connections .................. 11
Chapter 8 • Projects .......................... 34
Connections: Overall Concept ............... 11
What You’ll Need .................................... 11 About Projects ........................................ 34
Types of Input and Output Jacks .......... 12 Examples of How Projects are Used ..... 34
Types of Cables Used Viewing Projects ..................................... 35
with the TitleMaker 2000. .................... 12 Creating a Project .................................. 35
IN and OUT Markings ............................ 13 Naming a Project .................................... 35
Connection Diagram .............................. 14 Removing a Project or
Connecting Power .................................. 14 Erasing its Contents ............................ 35
Turning Power On and Off: Video Moving Between Projects ...................... 36
Pass-Through and Data Protection ..... 14 Copying or Moving Text
Connecting Outputs and Monitors ......... 15 Between Projects ................................. 36
Connecting a Video Source ................... 17
Troubleshooting Hints ............................ 18 Chapter 9 • Changing Titles ............. 37
Undo ....................................................... 37
Chapter 4 • Simple Changes ..................................... 37
Connecting Editing Equipment ........ 19 Marking Text for Major Changes ........... 37
Concept .................................................. 19 Marking Whole Lines and Pages ........... 38
Videonics Equipment Arrangements ..... 19 Deleting Marked Text ............................. 38
Single-Source Editing Setup .................. 20 Replacing Marked Text .......................... 38
Use with Video Processors .................... 21 Moving and Copying Text ...................... 39
Multiple Source Editing Chapter 10 • Positioning Text ......... 41
with a Video Mixer ............................... 21
GPI Control ............................................. 21 Positioning Horizontally:
Left, Right, Center ............................... 41
Chapter 5 • Using the Demo ............. 23 Positioning Vertically:
Up, Down, Center ................................ 41
Using the Demo ...................................... 23
Additional Positioning Hints ................... 42
International Demo ................................. 23
Locked Demo ......................................... 23 Chapter 11 • How to Use Menus ..... 43
Using the Demo as a Guided Tour ........ 23
Using the Demo to Create Titles ............ 24 Concept .................................................. 43
Sub-menus ............................................. 43
Chapter 6 • Typing Titles .................. 25 Highlights and Choices .......................... 43
The Editing Screen and Cursor ............. 25 Using the Menus .................................... 44
Moving Around the Screen .................... 25 Chapter 12 •
Shortcuts for Moving the Cursor ............ 25
Typing Titles ........................................... 26 How Characteristics Affect Text .... 45
Columns (Tabs) ...................................... 26 Concept .................................................. 45
Typing Special and How Characteristics Affect
Accented Characters .......................... 27 Lines and Pages .................................. 45

Contents
Changes ................................................. 46 Making Titles Come and Go .................. 65
Copying Characteristics ........................ 47
Chapter 19 • Playing Titles .............. 66
Chapter 13 • Projects ................................................... 66
Fonts, Sizes, and Styles.................... 48 Important Concepts ............................... 66
Font and Size .......................................... 48 Playing All Pages ................................... 66
Upper-Case-Only and Playing Some Pages .............................. 67
Fonts and Mixed Fonts ........................ 49 Playing Backwards ................................. 67
Hints on Using Fonts and Sizes ............. 49 Pause ...................................................... 67
Title Style ................................................ 49 Search (Cue and Review) ...................... 67
Hints on Using Styles ............................. 50 Manual Play (Slide Projector Mode) ...... 67
Continuous Play (Video Billboard) ......... 69
Chapter 14 • Colors ............................ 52 Leaving Play to Edit Again ..................... 69
Color Menus ........................................... 52 Chapter 20 • Editing, Presentations,
Using the User Colors ............................ 53
Hints on Using Colors ............................ 54 and Other Applications ..................... 70
Applications ............................................ 70
Chapter 15 • Patterns ........................ 55 Video Editing .......................................... 70
Pattern Menus ........................................ 55 Presentations .......................................... 73
Selecting Different Rainbow Live Titles ................................................ 74
and Pixel Patterns ................................ 56
Mixing Video into a Background Pattern 56 Chapter 21 • Preview ......................... 75
Hints on Using Patterns ......................... 56 About Preview ........................................ 75
Using a PREVIEW Monitor ..................... 75
Chapter 16 • Borders ......................... 58 Forcing Preview Mode ........................... 75
Border Style Menu .................................. 58
Complex Borders ................................... 59 Appendix A •
Removing borders .................................. 59 Advanced Techniques, Shortcuts, and
Command Keys .................................... 76
Chapter 17 •
Capacity ................................................. 76
Effects, Scrolls, and Crawls............. 60 Erasing Memory and Resetting Unit ...... 77
Page Symbols ........................................ 60 Moving the Cursor .................................. 77
Effects Menus ......................................... 60 Projects ................................................... 77
Transition Effects: Cuts, Fades, Slides, Moving In the Color Menu ...................... 78
and Wipes ............................................ 60 Using the Demo ...................................... 78
Slide Notes ............................................. 61 Play Modes ............................................. 78
Choosing a Transition Effect .................. 61 Miscellaneous Hints ............................... 79
Setting the Transition Speed .................. 61
Displaying the Page ............................... 62 Appendix B • Font Listing ................. 80
Setting Duration ...................................... 62 Character Set ......................................... 80
Infinite Duration ...................................... 62 Font Sample ........................................... 81
Scroll and Crawl ..................................... 62 SPECIAL CHARACTERS ........................ 82
Scroll and Crawl Notes ........................... 63 ACCENTED CHARACTERS ................... 82
Hints on Using Effects ............................ 63
Appendix C • Glossary ....................... 83
Chapter 18 •
Superimposing Titles ......................... 64 Index ...................................................... 87
Superimposing Titles on Video .............. 64
Superimposing Titles on Video
with a Transparent Pattern .................. 64

VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 2000 PAGE 1
Chapter 1 • Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the Videonics Video TitleMaker®
2000. With the TitleMaker 2000, you can add brilliant, full color
titles to all your videos. Its wide choice of fonts, sizes, styles, colors,
borders, backgrounds, fades, wipes, scroll, crawl, and more make the
TitleMaker 2000 a creative tool for anyone who uses video.
In a Hurry?
If you want to get started quickly, see the QuickStart section, Chapter 2.
Helpful Hints
The TitleMaker 2000 is a sophisticated video production tool. Some of the
words and concepts used in this manual may be new to you. Specialized
terms indicated by italics are defined in the Glossary section of this manual.
You can find complete descriptions of titling concepts and techniques as
they apply to the TitleMaker 2000 by referring to the Table of Contents and
Index.
For More Information...

...send in your registration card so we can keep you informed of new devel-
opments and send you our newsletter*. Note that Videonics does not sell
its mailing list. Your name and address will remain confidential.
What is a Video Titler?

A titler (also called a title generator, character generator, or CG) creates letters
and numbers (characters) on a video signal that can be displayed on a televi-
sion/monitor or recorded by a VCR.
What is the TitleMaker 2000?

The Video TitleMaker 2000 is a video titler with many additional capabili-
ties. With TitleMaker 2000, you can:
• Create high-quality video titles over a solid color or patterned back-
ground, or superimposed (“genlocked”) over a video picture.
* The newsletter and other services are available for Videonics customers in the U.S. and
Canada. Elsewhere, contact your Videonics distributor or retailer.

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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

to combine the presentation with video footage, such as shots of a new product or
of the factory sites.
Equipment
Your Video TitleMaker comes with:
• Power supply
• This manual
• Product registration card.
You may need to purchase cables to connect audio and video equipment
to the TitleMaker. Your Videonics dealer can help you identify the cables you
need.

Chapter 2 • QuickStart
Whether you’re a video expert looking for just the basic steps or a
beginner who wants instant gratification, this chapter will have you
titling in minutes!
This chapter describes just the basics. Many features and applications are
skipped or mentioned only briefly. For more information, or if you encounter
problems, refer to the table of contents or the index to locate a more complete
discussion.
AUDIO VIDEO AUDIO VIDEO

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A B C
PREVIEW CONTROL
OUT (GPI) POWER
IN OUT
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Typical TitleMaker 2000 connection
Connections
Connect the power supply (C) to a working wall outlet and connect the other end to the
TitleMaker 2000’s POWER jack. The POWER light comes on for a moment, then goes out.
Connect the TitleMaker 2000’s OUT jacks to the VIDEO and AUDIO IN jacks of a VCR (B).
Connect a television/monitor to the VCR in the normal fashion, so you can see the VCR’s
output. Leave the PREVIEW OUT jack unconnected unless you are using a PREVIEW monitor
(Chapter 21). Turn the television and VCR on.
If you plan to superimpose titles over video, connect a camcorder, VCR or other source (A)
to TitleMaker 2000’s video and audio IN jacks. Turn on the video source and start the tape
rolling.
Note: The illustration shows the use of composite (RCA-style) jacks for the video connections.
You can use S-video (Y/C) jacks instead. It is important to use the same type of jacks for the
input and the output. In other words, if your input is connected via the S-video jack, the output
should also use S-video; if it uses the composite jack, the output should use composite too. An
on-screen warning will alert you if you attempt to use the S-video output and composite input.
Note: The audio connections are for convenience only — the audio signals are not affected by
the unit.

Power On/Off
POWER Press POWER and the power light comes on. You should see a screen (called the
Editing Screen) on the OUTPUT monitor, similar to the one in the illustration
below.
Press POWER again to turn power off. Titles are retained in the TitleMaker 2000’s memory
even if the unit is unplugged.
When power is off, the OUTPUT monitor shows the video source that is plugged into
VIDEO IN.
Note: When turning the unit off, be sure the power light is out before you unplug the unit.
Demo
Press the DEMO button to automatically demonstrate a range of features and effects. If no
demo appears, check the connections. Press any letter key to stop the demo.
Instant Titles
Creating basic titles is simple. Start with
the Editing Screen. The screen may not
look exactly like this but it should have at
least the blinking cursor (∂ ). Press POWER
❷
once or twice if the cursor is not dis-
played.
The cursor indicates where characters you
type will appear. Page symbols (∑, de-
scribed later) separate pages of titles.
❶
Type some titles. They appear at the
cursor location. Press PLAY when you are
finished. The Editing Screen disappears
and the finished titles fill the screen. Con- The Editing Screen
gratulations — you have created your
first titles! Press NEW LINE/OK to return
to the Editing Screen.
The Editing Screen and the Play Screen

You have just seen how the screen changes appearance, depending on whether you are
creating titles or displaying them. The Editing Screen (the one with the cursor) is used to
create or change titles. The Play Screen shows just the titles, with no cursor or other items.
It is the screen you use to display and record the completed titles.
Sherlock PLAY
Holmes Sherlock
Holmes
new OK
line
The PLAY key is used to go from the Editing Screen to the Play Screen. NEW LINE/OK (or any
letter key) goes back to the Editing Screen from the Play Screen.
You can recognize the Editing Screen by the flashing cursor and the page symbols.

Pages
Titles are divided into pages. A page is a screenful of titles. You create
new a new page by pressing the NEW PAGE key. In this example, we
page typed “Sherlock Holmes,” then NEW PAGE, then “221B Baker Street.”
That produces the following Editing Screen and Play Screens:
Sherlock
Holmes Sherlock
PLAY 221B Baker Street
Holmes
221B Baker Street
Page Symbols
A row of page symbols divides one page from the next. These are described in detail in
Chapter 7. Briefly: The first two symbols and their numbers identify which page this is and
to which project (described in Chapter 8) it belongs. The next symbols tell which effect will
be used to introduce the page; how it will be displayed; and which effect will be used to
end its display.
Projects
You can create separate projects (Chapter 8). Each project has its own pages which are
protected from alteration while you are working on another project. This way several
people can use the same unit, or one person can work on several
page distinct jobs.
index The PAGE INDEX key is used to access projects. It lists all the pages
in all the projects. By moving the cursor through the Page Index screen, you can begin
work on any page, in any project. Press NEW LINE/OK to return to the Editing Screen.
Entering Text
To create a title, simply type some letters and they will appear at
the cursor’s location. caps lock
• To type a capital letter, hold SHIFT as you type. Press CAPS
LOCK to cause all letters to be capitalized. Press it again to type in
normal upper and lower case.
shift
• To type special characters (such as the ones printed in gold on
the keys), press ACCENT and a letter at the same time. For
instance, press ACCENT and Q to produce “¢.”
accent • To type an accented letter such as “ô,” simultaneously press
ACCENT and the key with the desired accent mark, then press
the letter to be accented. For example, press ACCENT and 2
together; then release them and press the A key. You will see the letter “à.”
Lines
new OK
line
Press NEW LINE/OK to end the line of text and begin a new line.

Moving the Cursor

If you want to add text somewhere other than where the cursor is, use the arrow keys to
move the cursor. Hold SHIFT as you press the UP or DOWN arrow keys to move a page at a
time. SHIFT with the LEFT and RIGHT arrows moves the cursor to the start or end of the line.
Note: You cannot move the cursor past the end of the last line of text. If you want to type past
the last characters on the screen, press NEW LINE/OK to create blank lines. The cursor moves
down as you add lines. If you want to type past the last character in a line, position the cursor at
the end of the line and type.
Editing the Text

To insert text, use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the desired location and type. New
characters are added at the cursor’s location.
To delete text, position the cursor after the characters you want to remove and press
DELETE. The character before the cursor is removed. To delete large blocks of text at once,
mark the text and press delete.
To replace text, delete the text, then insert.
Oops!
If you accidentally delete something, immediately press UNDO. It restores the text that was
deleted by the last press of the DELETE key.
Using Menus to Change

Colors, Fonts, etc.
You can change characteristics (such as
fonts, colors and title styles) using the ❶
menu keys at the top of the keyboard.
To do this, position the cursor any- ❷
where in the line you wish to change
and press the appropriate menu key. ❸
For instance, press the LETTER COLOR
button (in the top row). A menu of ❹
colors appears.
This menu has two sub-menus — one
at the top of the screen (∂ ) and one at
the bottom (π ). Each sub-menu con-
tains choices you can use to change your titles. The MARK START button is used to choose
which sub-menu is active. In this example, the bottom sub-menu is active — if you wanted
to use the top sub-menu instead, you would press MARK START.
One item in the active menu is highlighted. In this example, a color choice is highlighted by
the triangular pointers (∏).
Use the arrow keys to move the highlight to a different color. The sample patch (∑) shows
the selected color. Press NEW LINE/OK or PLAY to choose the color you have highlighted.
NEW LINE/OK returns you to the editing screen; PLAY plays the resulting page.
The characters in the line that contained the cursor change to the selected color.
More Changes
Use menus to:
• Change font, style, size, letter color and pattern, background color and pattern.

• Add borders and change their type, color, and pattern.

• Use effects to start and end a page of titles.
• Make text scroll and crawl.
Each menu works the same way: If there are sub-menus, use MARK START to switch
between sub-menus. Then use the arrow keys to highlight your choice and press PLAY or
NEW LINE/OK to implement it.
Notes
• Background, Pattern, and Effect menus affect the entire page that contains the cursor.
Other menus affect the entire line that contains the cursor. You cannot mix characteris-
tics on a line.
• When you are editing text using the Editing Screen, several pages may be on the screen
at once (with page symbols between them). Note that the backgrounds and borders of
all the pages appear in the pattern and color of the page that contains the cursor. As
you move the cursor from one page to another, the patterns and colors used in the
entire screen will change. To see the patterns and color that are set for a particular page,
move the cursor to that page.
• Each page can use one type of pixel pattern and one type of rainbow pattern (see
Chapter 15). So, for example, if you set some letters to use rainbow pattern 11, then set
the background to use rainbow 14, both will
use 14.
• When you type something new, it will have
the same characteristics as the preceding let-
ter. If you want to type in a different style, use
the menu key to make a new choice and con-
tinue typing.
Superimposing Titles on
Video
To superimpose titles on video, change the background pattern to VIDEO (rather than a
solid color or pattern). Follow these steps:
• Position the cursor on the page that contains the titles you wish to superimpose.
• Press the BACKGROUND PATTERN menu button.
• Use MARK START to activate the top sub-menu. Use the RIGHT arrow key to highlight
the VIDEO symbol. Press NEW LINE/OK.
• Confirm that your video source is running (start the VCR or camcorder).
• Press PLAY.
The OUTPUT monitor will show your page of titles superimposed over the source video:
San
Francisco

Making Titles Come and Go

In a production, you may want superimposed titles to appear for a while, then disappear.
To do this, place blank pages with video backgrounds between pages of titles.
Create a page of superimposed titles. At the end of the page, press NEW PAGE but don’t
type anything on this page. Set its background to VIDEO, if it isn’t already. Press NEW PAGE
again and type the next titles. When you play these pages, the first titles appear, then
transition to the blank page. Since this page is empty and the background is plain video,
the result is that the titles simply go away. The next page can then introduce more titles.
Positioning Text on the Line
Abelard Abelard Abelard

& & &
Heloise Heloise Heloise
You can change the position of the text on any line. A line can be centered or positioned
against the left or right edge of the screen.
Position the cursor on the line. Press and release the POSITION key, then press the LEFT or
RIGHT arrow. The line position changes immediately to show the new choice. (The page
symbol is not affected.)
Positioning Text on the Page

Gable
& Gable
Lombard &
Lombard Gable
&
Lombard
The page symbol shows how text is positioned on the page. It can be positioned at the top,
center, or bottom of the page. To change the position, press and release the POSITION key,
then press the UP or DOWN arrow on the arrow keypad.
Transitions, Durations, Scroll, and Crawl

You can determine how long each page will be displayed (its duration) and what transition
effects (fade, wipe, etc.) will be used to introduce, and remove the page. You can also make
titles scroll or crawl on or off the page.
Position the cursor anywhere on a page and use the EFFECTS IN menu key to change the
page’s duration, scrolling, speed, and the effect that will introduce it. Use the Effects Out
menu to choose the effect that will be used to remove the page.
Duration is set using the bottom sub-menu of the Effects In menu. Highlight the digits after
the clock symbol and type in the desired time. You can set infinite duration (displaying the
page until you press PLAY again) by highlighting the infinity symbol.

Playing the Pages

When the pages are complete, move the cursor to the start of the first page and press PLAY.
Shortcut: To play all the pages in the project, press COMMAND + PLAY. Each page will be
displayed, in sequence, using the selected durations and effects. To play just some of the
pages, play manually, etc., see Chapter 19.
Learning More
A convenient way to become a TitleMaker 2000 expert is to load the demo into the Editing
Screen for study. To do this, press COMMAND + SHIFT + COPY at the same time
(COMMAND + SHIFT + MOVE for the international demo) and the unit will create a new
project that contains the demo text. This allows you to see how the demo was created.
More...
Refer to the index and table of contents to find detailed sections which explain how to:
• Create “projects.”
• Move between pages or projects.
• Use the Page Index.
• Use a PREVIEW monitor to change titles out of the audience’s view.
• Add borders, lines, and boxes to your video pages.
• Mark large blocks of text so you can move or copy them without typing.
• Use effects (such as wipes) between pages and set durations so pages are displayed for
a pre-defined time.
• Combine scroll and crawl to move titles on and off the screen in many different ways.
• Play pages in many ways, such as manually, backwards, automatically repeating, etc.
• Use TitleMaker 2000 with editing equipment.
• Copy and move large sections of text.
• Choose colors and define your own colors.
• Create transparent background patterns and colors.

Chapter 3 • Connections
Connections: Overall Concept
B B
A C A B C
VIDEONICS VIDEO TITLEMAKER 2000 VIDEONICS VIDEO TITLEMAKER 2000 VIDEONICS VIDEO TITLEMAKER 2000
1 2 3
The first diagram (1) shows a typical video production setup. The
TitleMaker 2000 is connected between a video source (A), which plays the
picture to which you will add titles, and a recorder (C), which will record the
results. Some common variations:
1 The diagram shows a camcorder (A) as the video source. Other sources,
such as a VCR or camera can be substituted.
Hint: You can leave the unit permanently connected. When the power supply is
plugged in but the power light is off, the input signal is passed through to the
output and no titles are added.
2 The output can be connected directly to a monitor (B), instead of going
through a VCR, if you plan to display titles without recording them.
3 The source is optional — the TitleMaker 2000 can operate without a
source, generating titles on its own backgrounds.
This chapter describes how to connect the inputs, outputs, and monitors.
Chapter 4, “Connecting Editing Equipment” goes further, explaining how to
attach editing equipment, such as an edit controller, video mixer, video
processor, or effects unit.
What You’ll Need

A Video source (optional). Any standard video source with composite (RCA-
style) or S-video (Y/C) outputs can be used, including VCRs, camcorders,
cameras, video disc players, video production equipment (such as a mixer,
processor, or another titler), and computers with television outputs. If no
source is used, the TitleMaker 2000 will create titles on its own back-
grounds.

B An OUTPUT monitor. The monitor will be connected to a recording VCR

in most cases. Required connections depend on the VCR. You can use any
arrangement that will allow you to view tapes played on the VCR.
C A Record VCR. In a live setup, in which the results will be displayed
without being recorded, the VCR is optional, but most setups will include
the VCR.
D PREVIEW monitor (optional). If used, this monitor must have a compos-
ite (RCA-style) video input. Use of the PREVIEW monitor is described in
Chapter 21, “Preview.”
• Video Cables. You will need one video cable to connect the output to the
Record VCR and one to connect the Record VCR to the OUTPUT monitor.
You may also need a cable for the input, if a video source is used; and for
the PREVIEW monitor, if used. The next section describes the types of
cables.
Types of Input and Output Jacks

VIDEO AUDIO S-VIDEO AUDIO VIDEO AUDIO
ANT ANTENNA
INPUT
❶ ❷ ❸ ❹
∂ Composite (RCA-style) video and audio

∑ S-video (Y/C)
∏ BNC video, used in some professional equipment
π RF cables (Coaxial cable and twin-lead antenna cable)
• Note: European video equipment often has SCART plugs. Adapters are
commonly available to connect SCART-equipped units to the RCA jacks
provided on the TitleMaker.
Audio
RF cables carry the audio signal along with the video. All the others
require a separate RCA-style audio cable.
Types of Cables Used with the TitleMaker 2000.

• INPUT and OUTPUT. You can use S-video (Y/C) or composite (RCA-
style) jacks for the input and output.
S-video (Y/C) jacks will deliver somewhat better performance than com-
posite (RCA-style) jacks, but only if they are used for both the input and

output. In other words: Use S-video (Y/C) jacks if your source and re-
corder are both equipped with them; use only the composite (RCA-style)
jacks if either lacks S-video jacks.
If you are using the S-video output jacks, you
must use S-video for the input. If you try to
use the S-video output and the composite
(RCA) input, an on-screen warning appears
to remind you to use S-video in.
• Record VCR to OUTPUT monitor. If you are using a Record VCR, the
OUTPUT monitor can be connected to the VCR using an RF (antenna/
cable type) cable, composite (RCA-style) cable, or S-video (Y/C) cable,
depending on what types of jacks are available on the VCR and monitor. If
you have a choice, S-video is generally better than composite and compos-
ite is better than RF.
• PREVIEW. If you are using a PREVIEW monitor, it must be connected via
a composite (RCA-style) cable.
• BNC. If you plan to use equipment with BNC jacks, you will also need
RCA-BNC adapters.
• Audio. The audio jacks on the TitleMaker 2000 are simple pass-through
connectors, provided to make connections between two video devices
convenient. AUDIO IN is routed di-
rectly to AUDIO OUT, unmodified by
the unit. IN OUT
OUT IN
IN and OUT Markings
Hint: Always connect the OUT jack of one device to the IN jack of the next.
Never connect two OUTs together.

Connection Diagram
This diagram shows the connections for a typical titling setup. The sec-
tions that follow provide detailed instructions.

OUT OUT IN IN
A B C
PREVIEW CONTROL
OUT (GPI) POWER
IN OUT
R L V R L V
Connecting Power
■ Connect the power supply (C) to the POWER input and plug it into a
working power outlet. Be sure to use the power supply that came with the
unit. Others, including the ones supplied with other Videonics products,
may damage the unit and void the warranty.
As soon as the power supply is connected, the power light on the front
panel comes on for a moment, then goes out.
Turning Power On and Off: Video Pass-Through

and Data Protection
■ To turn the unit on or off, press the POWER button. The front panel light
indicates whether the power is on.
Notes:
• When the unit has been connected to the power supply for a while, it will
be warm to the touch. The power supply will also be warm. This is normal.
• When power is off, video is routed from the video input to the video
output and no titles are added. This eliminates the need to disconnect the
unit when titles are not needed — you can simply turn the unit off and
video is passed straight through.

• To assure reliable storage of titles, always press POWER and be sure the
power light is out before you unplug the power supply.
Here’s why: Titles are retained by the built-in lithium battery when you
turn the power off. Even when the unit is unplugged, all titles remain
intact, including all settings and formatting. When you turn the unit off,
the TitleMaker 2000 reorganizes its memory to optimize storage. It is
important not to unplug the unit until the light turns off, telling you this
operation is complete.
Connecting Outputs and Monitors
AUDIO VIDEO AUDIO VIDEO AUDIO VIDEO

IN IN IN IN IN IN
1A 1B 2
OUT R L V S OUT R L V S OUT R L V S
OUT OUT OUT

R L V R L V R L V
Example Output Connections
■ Connect the OUTPUT monitor to the TitleMaker 2000’s video OUT jacks:
• 1A, 1B: If you will be recording the output (as in a video production
setup), connect the TitleMaker 2000 video OUT to the VIDEO IN of the
Record VCR. Then connect a television or monitor to the Record VCR, as
described in the manual that came with the VCR.
You can use either S-video (Y/C) cables (1A) or composite (RCA-style)
cables (1B) to connect the TitleMaker 2000 to the VCR. You can use S-
video, composite, or RF (cable/antenna) cables to connect the VCR and the
television/monitor.
In either case, connect the TitleMaker 2000 audio OUT jacks (marked L
and R) to the Record VCR’s AUDIO IN.
• 2: If you will not be recording the output, connect the TitleMaker 2000
video OUT to the VIDEO IN of a monitor. You can use S-video (Y/C) or
composite (RCA-style) cables for this connection. If you are using a televi-
sion with no VIDEO input (that is, it has only an RF (cable/antenna) jack,
you will need a VCR or an “RF modulator” to connect the TitleMaker 2000
to it.
Connect the TitleMaker 2000 audio OUT (marked L and R) to the monitor’s

AUDIO IN or to an external amplifier and speakers.

■ Set the OUTPUT monitor’s input switch.
■ Important: If the television/monitor you are using has an input selection
switch, set it so it is displaying the correct input. For instance, if you have
connected to the monitor’s VIDEO 1 input jack, you would choose VIDEO
1 as your input. Refer to the manual that came with your monitor for
details.
■ Set the Record VCR input.
Important: Set the VCR’s controls so that it will record whatever comes
into its VIDEO IN jack, rather than recording AUX SC TUNER S-VHS LINE TUNER
a broadcast channel. Different VCRs use dif-
ferent methods to do this. Your VCR’s manual SOURCE SELECT INPUT SELECT
should explain how, probably in a section that CAMERA

TV / LINE
discusses copying tapes from a camcorder. EXT
TUNER
Here are some common examples: AUDIO 2
• Most VCRs have an input selector switch that goes between LINE (or AUX,
EXT, A/V, or S) and TUNER. The illustration shows some examples.
• Some use a button on the remote control or an on-screen menu to choose
an external line source.
• Others require that you choose a special channel (like 99 or A1).
• Still others switch automatically when you plug the cable into the VIDEO
IN jack.
■ Test the connections.
Turn the TitleMaker 2000, VCR, and television on and press DEMO. You
should see a series of titles with various transitions between them. Press
DEMO again to stop the demo.
■ CONTROL (GPI).
The CONTROL (GPI) input allows the unit to be triggered
by edit controllers equipped with GPI (“General Purpose
Interface”). It is described in Chapter 20, “Editing, Presenta- VIDEO
IN
tions, and Other Applications.”

■ Optional: Connect the PREVIEW monitor. S PREVIEW
Note: See Chapter 21 to determine whether you need a PREVIEW

OUT
PREVIEW monitor.
Important: Leave the PREVIEW OUT jack unconnected if
you are not using a PREVIEW monitor. Connecting anything, even an
unconnected plug, to this jack enables preview mode. In Preview mode, the
Editing Screen is not displayed on the OUTPUT monitor.
Connect the TitleMaker 2000’s PREVIEW OUT to the VIDEO IN jack of the
PREVIEW monitor using a composite (RCA-style) cable. (If the monitor

only has an RF (cable/antenna) jack, you will need a spare VCR or an RF

modulator to convert the RCA-style output to RF.)
■ Test the PREVIEW connection (if used).
Turn the PREVIEW monitor on. Press DEMO. You should see a series of
titles.
■ Optional: Align video output.
Television screens do not normally show the entire picture. A small amount
of each edge is normally cut off. The amount that each edge cuts off can
vary, making the image slightly off center. For normal television viewing,
this is not very important but titles tend to make any imbalance noticeable.
TitleMaker 2000 allows you to adjust the picture to center it on the screen.
To adjust the centering, press SHIFT + POSITION. A large rectangle is
displayed. Use the arrow keys to adjust the rectangle until it is centered
and press NEW LINE/OK. The new centering will be remembered even if
you unplug the unit.
You can re-center the image, bringing it back to the original factory setting,
by pressing SHIFT + POSITION again while the rectangle is displayed.
Connecting a Video Source

Video sources include camcorders, VCRs, laserdisc players, cameras, video
production equipment (such as a mixer or another titler), satellite tuners,
broadcast tuners/receivers, video-equipped computers, etc. They may have
S-video (Y/C) or composite (RCA-style) output jacks. RF sources (cable TV,
antenna, “channel 3/4,” or other modulated sources) must be converted to S-
video or RCA-style format video using a tuner, television, VCR, etc.
■ Connect the video source’s VIDEO OUT jack to the video IN jack on the
TitleMaker 2000. Connect the source’s AUDIO OUT jacks to the TitleMaker
2000’s AUDIO IN jacks.

OUT OUT OUT OUT
IN R L V S IN R L V S
IN IN
R L V R L V
Input Connection Examples
Avoid mixing input and output types — if S-video jacks are not available
on both the input and output, use composite for both. If you try to use the

S-video output and the composite (RCA) input, an on-screen warning

appears to remind you to use the S-video input.
■ Test the input connections.
Press POWER to turn the TitleMaker 2000 off. The input video is passed
through to the output, so you should see the input video on the OUTPUT
monitor.
Troubleshooting Hints
If you do not see the picture you expect, review the following hints:
• Confirm that the POWER light is on.
• Double-check the connections, especially the one from the TitleMaker
2000’s VIDEO OUT to your monitor or VCR’s VIDEO IN. Most problems
are caused by a cabling mistake.
• Be sure the television is set to monitor the video input you are using rather
than, say, channel 7 (see “Set the OUTPUT monitor’s input switch”); and
that the VCR is set to record its video input (see “Set the Record VCR
input”). This is the second most common cause of problems.
• Check the obvious. Is everything turned on, are all switches set correctly?
Are all connections correct, with OUTs going to INs?
• If you see titles when you press PLAY but you never see the screen with
the cursor, confirm that there is nothing — not even an unconnected cable
— plugged into the PREVIEW OUT jack.
• Try swapping cables — if the problem changes when you completely
exchange two cables, you may have a bad cable.
• If you are using S-video connectors, try temporarily using the RCA con-
nectors instead.
• Jumpy or off-color recordings are often caused by poor quality originals or
by the use of commercially recorded videos as the source material. Many
recordings carry copy-protection signals designed to prevent copying.
The TitleMaker 2000 is not designed to remove copy-protection signals.

Chapter 4 •
Connecting Editing Equipment
The TitleMaker 2000 is compatible with a wide range of editing
equipment, such as edit controllers, video processors, and video
mixers. It can be connected in a variety of ways, depending on what
you plan to do and what equipment you have.
A title generator is a common part of a video editing setup. This chapter
describes how to connect editing equipment to the TitleMaker 2000. For
information on how to edit using the TitleMaker 2000, see Chapter 20, “Edit-
ing, Presentations, and Other Applications.”
Hint: Verify that the basic connections, described in the previous chapter, are
working properly before you add advanced equipment.
Concept
There is no single, “correct” way to connect equipment in an editing
studio. The setup varies, depending on what you want to accomplish. The
most important concept is that editing equipment is connected in a chain,
with the output of one device feeding the input of the next.
VIDEONICS VIDEO EQUALIZER DIGITAL VIDEO
1 +6 dB
0 dB
A B
VIDEONICS VIDEO EQUALIZER DIGITAL VIDEO
2 +6 dB
0 dB
B A
The order in which the pieces of equipment are connected matters since
each piece will act on the video generated by devices that are earlier in the
chain. For instance, if you wanted to add titles to video that has had special
effects added, you would use the setup labeled 1 in the illustration, connect-
ing the titler (B) after the special effects unit (A). If you wanted to add effects
to the titles and the video, you would reverse the order, as in setup 2.
Videonics Equipment Arrangements

Here are some recommended setups using Videonics equipment.

A D A D
IN OUT IN OUT IN OUT IN OUT

VIDEONICS THUMBS UP ™ Video Editor
VIDEONICS VIDEO TITLEMAKER 2000 VIDEONICS DIGITAL VIDEO MIXER VIDEONICS VIDEO TITLEMAKER 2000
E
C B C
In the first setup, the camcorder (A) is connected through Thumbs Up (E)
and the TitleMaker 2000 (C) to the recorder (D). In the second setup, the
camcorder (A) is connected through a Digital Video Mixer (B) to
the TitleMaker 2000 (C) and it is connected to the recorder (D).
Note that other hookups may be more suitable for your setup, as ex-
plained in the rest of this chapter.
Single-Source Editing Setup

A single-source editing setup uses a camcorder or VCR (player) to play
scenes from an original tape. The desired scenes are recorded on a blank tape,
leaving the unwanted scenes behind. An edit controller may be used to control
the player and trigger the recorder for accurate edits.
The TitleMaker 2000 can add titles as the scenes are recorded on the new
tape. To do this, the titler is connected between the player and the recorder:
When an edit controller is used, the titler may be used between the edit
controller and the player, or between the edit controller and the recorder.
Either arrangement is likely to work unless the edit controller relies on
information that is coded in the invisible portions of the video signal (vertical
interval time code, or VITC). If that is the case, the titler may interfere with
the time code when titles replace the incoming video. Follow the instructions
in the edit controller’s manual. If there are no instructions, connect the
TitleMaker 2000 between the edit controller and the recorder:
VIDEONICS THUMBS UP ™ Video Editor
If you experience problems with this setup, connect the TitleMaker 2000
between the player and the edit controller instead.

Use with Video Processors

A video processor or enhancer may be used as well. Processors are generally
connected directly to the camcorder output so they adjust the video before
titles are added.
Multiple Source Editing with a Video Mixer

Advanced editing combines video from more than one source. A video
mixer is used to combine the video sources to use fades, wipes, and other
effects to transition between sources. As with a single source, you can connect
a titler before or after the mixer:
❶ VIDEONICS DIGITAL VIDEO MIXER
❷ VIDEONICS DIGITAL VIDEO MIXER
Generally, the most flexible arrangement is to connect the TitleMaker 2000

between the mixer and the recorder (∑). This arrangement has an important
advantage: Titles can be superimposed over the mixed signal. For instance,
you could have a wipe from source B to source C and have titles superim-
posed over the entire transition, rather than just having the titles atop either B
or C.
You may use the titler as a separate input (∂ ). The advantage of this
arrangement is that the mixer’s effects can be used on the titles.
Of course, you can use multiple TitleMaker 2000s, connecting one titler to
the input and one to the output.
GPI Control
The TitleMaker 2000 is equipped with a CONTROL input. As explained in
Chapter 20, “Editing, Presentations, and Other Applications,” this allows
you to set up pages of titles, with pre-defined durations and effects, and have
an external controller trigger each new page as the production is assembled.
Edit controllers such as Videonics Thumbs Up are equipped with a GPI
(“General Purpose Interface”) output that will trigger the TitleMaker 2000.
Warning: Always turn off power before plugging anything into GPI jack.

GPI Cable
A special cable is required. You can buy a Thumbs Up-to-TitleMaker GPI
trigger cable from Videonics (part number CBLA-0034-01) or you can buy or
make your own. The cable has a stereo male 3.5 mm sub-mini-plug at each
end and three wires connect each terminal of one plug to the corresponding
terminal of the other.
For other controllers, you will have to make your own cable using a stereo
male 3.5 mm sub-mini-plug at one end. Wire the “tip” and “base” (not the
middle “ring”) to the two wires of your GPI trigger source.
You can also wire a pushbutton switch to the GPI input to remotely trigger
titles, as described in Chapter 20.

Chapter 5 • Using the Demo

The built-in demo is a convenient way to learn what the unit can do.
Using the Demo

To display the TitleMaker 2000’s built-in demo, turn the unit on and press
the DEMO key. The OUTPUT monitor will display a series of titles that
describe the unit’s features and applications and demonstrates the kind of
effects you can generate. Press any key to end the demo.
Running the demo does not erase any titles you have entered.
International Demo
Press SHIFT + DEMO to display a demo that minimizes the use of English
language text. This demo is designed for international use.
Locked Demo
Normally, pressing any key will end the demo. If the demo is running in a
display and you want to prevent passers-by from accidentally ending the
demo, hold COMMAND as you start the demo (COMMAND + DEMO for
the English language demo; COMMAND + SHIFT + DEMO for the interna-
tional version). This will start a locked demo. Only the COMMAND + DEMO
or COMMAND + SHIFT + DEMO key combination will stop it.
Using the Demo as a Guided Tour

The demo makes extensive use of TitleMaker 2000’s features and includes
several clever tricks for making interesting titles. You can study the demo in
detail by copying it into the Editing Screen. To do this, press COMMAND +
SHIFT + COPY. This creates a new project which contains the English-
language demo. (You can copy the international demo by pressing COM-
MAND + SHIFT + MOVE.) You can then use the cursor to tour the demo. You
can view the menu settings used on any line. Position the cursor in the line,
press each menu key, and observe the settings.
Note that the demos are quite large and it is a good idea to delete all
unneeded titles before copying a demo in. If the memory warning symbol
appears when you attempt to copy the demo, it means
memory is full. Part of the demo may have been success-
fully copied but you will have to delete some text before
you can copy the whole demo.

Using the Demo to Create Titles

Instead of creating a new set of titles from scratch, you can start with the
demo as raw material. To do this, copy the demo into the Editing Screen as
described above. Delete pages and modify text to create your own titles. This
is often faster than creating new material from scratch.

Chapter 6 • Typing Titles

Creating titles is as simple as typing with the TitleMaker 2000’s full keyboard with
upper and lower case, plus special and accented characters.
The Editing Screen and Cursor

The Editing Screen is used whenever you
❷are typing or editing text.
New text always appears at the blinking
cursor (∂ ). New letters are always inserted
❶ — they don’t replace letters already on the
screen.
The page symbols (∑) indicate where a
new page of text begins. They also tell you
the number of the page (B), the number of the project to which the page
belongs (A), the effects that will
be used to start and end the page
(C and E) and how long the page
will be displayed (D). These items A B C D E
are described in detail in Chap-
ter 7, “Pages.”
Moving Around the Screen

Use the arrow keys to position the cursor.
Note: You cannot move the cursor past the end of the text. If you want to add some
new text at the bottom of the screen, past the last character, use the NEW LINE/OK
key to add some blank lines and move the cursor to the bottom of the screen. Or
position all of the page’s text at the bottom of the screen using the POSITION key
(Chapter 10.)
If there is more than one screenful of text, you can move to the next or
previous screen by using the UP or DOWN arrow to go beyond the top or
bottom line on the screen — the pages will scroll to keep the cursor in view.
The cursor will stop when it reaches the top of the first page or the bottom of
the last page.
Shortcuts for Moving the Cursor

Hold SHIFT while you press the RIGHT or LEFT arrow key and the cursor
will jump all the way across the screen, in the direction of the arrow you
press. If you hold SHIFT while you press the UP or DOWN arrow key, you
will move forward or back a page at a time.

Hold COMMAND while you press the UP arrow to go to the top of the
first page of text; use COMMAND-DOWN arrow to go to the end of the last
page.
You can move between projects (explained in Chapter 8) by pressing
COMMAND and SHIFT as you press the UP or DOWN arrow.
Modifier key LEFT or RIGHT arrow UP or DOWN arrow

SHIFT Next start or end of line Start or end of next page
COMMAND Next start or end of line Start or end of current project
COMMAND + SHIFT Next start or end of line Start of previous or next project
new OK
line Typing Titles
To create a title, simply type the letters. They appear at
the cursor’s location. You can change the color, style, size,
etc. as you go or you can type all the text and change the
delete way it looks later.
• Use the NEW LINE/OK key to end a line of text and
begin another line. You can type up to 1000 characters per
shift
line. (It’s unlikely you would ever try to type that many
but if you do, the memory-full symbol appears to remind
you to start a new line.)
caps lock
• If you make a mistake, use the DELETE key to erase the
last letter.
• To type capital letters, hold the SHIFT key as you type the letter. The SHIFT
key also provides punctuation marks such as “!” and “&.”
• If you want something in all capitals (“Our trip to NEW YORK CITY”), you
can use the CAPS LOCK key. Press it once and all your typing will be in
capitals; press again to type lower case letters. CAPS LOCK doesn’t affect
the number keys or punctuation marks; you must use SHIFT for those
characters, even when CAPS LOCK is on. Note that there is no indication
that CAPS LOCK is on other than the fact that letters
you type are capitalized.
• Some fonts have only capital letters and produce capi-
tal letters with or without SHIFT or CAPS LOCK.
• The space bar is in two halves. Each creates a space character; there is no
difference between the two halves.
• If this symbol appears when you type, memory is full or the line or page is
full. You will be unable to add more text unless you erase other text. Press
COMMAND + M at any time to see how much memory is left.

Columns (Tabs)
The TAB key is a “smart tab,” designed to make it easy to create columns
of information. It works by aligning with the next blank space in the previous
line of text.
Example: Type a line of text, using spaces to separate the words:
Name Age Address
Now press NEW LINE/OK and type a second line, using the TAB key
between words. Each TAB will cause the next word to begin where a word
above it begins:
Name Age Address
Jules 11 1406 Windmere
You may need to make adjustments. For instance, if a word aligns itself to
the wrong blank space, you may need to add more TABs. You can also add
and remove spaces and blank lines to adjust the appearance.
Notes:
• When you add a tab to a line, the line is automatically left-positioned (as if
you had pressed POSITION followed by the LEFT arrow).
• Tabs are not automatically adjusted when you edit a line. You may need to
add tabs or spaces to realign the columns.
• Tabs are based only on the line immediately before the line that contains
the cursor.
accent
Typing Special and Accented Charac-
ters
TitleMaker 2000 includes special characters, such as • and ©, and accented
characters to support many languages. Most of them are indicated on the
keys, in gold. There are a few pictorial characters which are not printed on the
keys. Use the special character listing on the following pages to find them.
The ACCENT key, at the lower left corner of the keyboard, is used to type
special and accented characters:
• To type special characters, simply press ACCENT while you press the
desired character. For instance, press ACCENT and Y together to type the
“©” character. SHIFT is used, in some cases, to type the capitalized version
of the special character.
• Accented letters, such as é and ñ, are typed by combining the accent mark
with the letter. The accent is typed, followed by the letter.
The charts on the next pages show all the accented and special characters
and how to type them.

SPECIAL CHARACTERS
In the following list:
• “+” indicates that keys are pressed together; you don’t press the “+” key.
• Capital letters are used for clarity; you don’t press SHIFT unless it is indicated.
Character Keys Notes
ç ACCENT + C
Ç ACCENT + SHIFT + C
æ ACCENT + A
Æ ACCENT + SHIFT + A
œ ACCENT + O Press the letter O, not the number 0.
Œ ACCENT + SHIFT + O Press the letter O, not the number 0.
ø ACCENT + 0
Ø ACCENT + SHIFT + 0
ß ACCENT + S
§ ACCENT + D
« ACCENT + [
» ACCENT + ]
¡ ACCENT + 1
¿ ACCENT + /
¢ ACCENT + Q Cents
£ ACCENT + W Pound
¥ ACCENT + E Yen
® ACCENT + R Registered trademark
™ ACCENT + T Trademark
© ACCENT + Y Copyright
° ACCENT + 7; SPACE Degree **
• ACCENT + U Bullet
— ACCENT + – Long “(em)” dash *
‘ ACCENT + ; Left curled single-quote *
’ ACCENT + ' Right curled single-quote *
“ ACCENT + , Left curled quote *
” ACCENT + . Right curled quote *
* Note: TitleMaker 2000 offers “curly” quotes in addition to “straight” quotes. Curly quotes
look like this: “ ” ‘ ’ , as opposed to straight quotes which look like this: " ' . It also has the
“em-dash” (—), a dash that is longer than a hyphen (-). Note that the straight quotes in
some fonts are actually slightly curled due to the style used by that font’s designers.
** For the degree symbol, type ACCENT + 7 followed by SPACE.
The following characters are not printed on the keypad.
ACCENT + Arrows
❤ ACCENT + F Heart
✓ ACCENT + G Checkmark
★ ACCENT + H Star
◆ ACCENT + J Diamond
■ ACCENT + K Square
■ ACCENT + L Open box

ACCENTED (LANGUAGE) CHARACTERS

The accents above the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 keys are used with other letters to make accented
letters. For instance, to type ü, you would use ACCENT + 4, followed by the letter U. The
capitalized version (Ü) would be displayed using ACCENT + 4, followed by SHIFT + U.
In this list, “letter” means the letter you want accented.
To Type: Press: Then press:
´ ACCENT + 2 SPACE
á, é, í, ó, ú ACCENT + 2 letter
Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú ACCENT + 2 SHIFT + letter
` ACCENT + 3 SPACE
à, è, ì, ò, ù ACCENT + 3 letter
À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù ACCENT + 3 SHIFT + letter
¨ ACCENT + 4 SPACE
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü ACCENT + 4 letter
Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü ACCENT + 4 SHIFT + letter
˜ ACCENT + 5 SPACE
ã, õ, ñ ACCENT + 5 letter
Ã, Õ, Ñ ACCENT + 5 SHIFT + letter
ˆ ACCENT + 6 SPACE
â, ê, î, ô, û ACCENT + 6 letter
Â, Ê, Î, Ô, Û ACCENT + 6 SHIFT + letter
° ACCENT + 7 SPACE
å ACCENT + 7 letter a
Å ACCENT + 7 SHIFT + letter a
" ACCENT + 8 SPACE
"o, "u ACCENT + 8 letter
"O, "U ACCENT + 8 SHIFT + letter

Chapter 7 • Pages
Titles are displayed as pages. Each page is played one at a time. A
variety of effects can be used to play the pages.
About Pages
The TitleMaker 2000 will hold over 8000 characters. They can be divided
into pages. The Play Screen shows one page at a time.
Text can be divided into new pages anywhere you like. For instance, you
could have simple subtitles, each on a different page, resulting in 100 pages,
each with just a few characters. Or you might have a few long pages, each
scrolling up the screen.
Long Pages
Text that is typed past the edges of a page is not erased. When you move
the cursor past the edge of the screen, the invisible text scrolls into view.
If you play a page that has text past the edge of the screen, the extra text
will not be displayed. You can edit the page to show the extra text: Break the
line into smaller pieces; use a smaller font, size, or style; or use a scroll or
crawl effect.
• There is no fixed limit on the number of pages or on the number of
characters that can be typed on a page.
• A line can contain up to 1000 characters. If you type beyond the 1000
character limit, the memory warning symbol appears.
• Scrolling pages are limited to 40-60 lines, depending on the number of
characters in the line. The memory warning symbol appears if you attempt
to play a page that scrolls too many lines.
Creating a Page
Use NEW PAGE to start a new screen. For example, type “Sherlock
Holmes,” then press NEW PAGE, then type “221B Baker Street.” You will see
something like this:
Sherlock
Holmes Sherlock
PLAY 221B Baker Street
Holmes
221B Baker Street
“Sherlock Holmes” is on one page and “221B Baker Street” is on the next.

Page Symbols
A set of page symbols starts each
page:
• The first symbol (A) indicates
the current project (described A B C D E
in the next section). The number indicates the number of the project to
which the page belongs.
• The second symbol (B) indicates the number of the page within the project.
It also shows the vertical positioning of the text on the page. The symbol
changes depending on whether the text is positioned at the top, bottom, or
center of the page.
• The next symbol (C) shows the EFFECT-IN that has been selected. This
effect will introduce the page when it’s played.
• The next symbol (D) shows the duration of the page — how long it will be
displayed when you press PLAY. If the page is set for infinite duration,
scroll, or crawl, a symbol is displayed here instead of a number.
• The last symbol (E) indicates the EFFECT-OUT.
Navigating Pages and Projects with the Page Index

With the ability to cre-
ate hundreds of pages
comes a problem: How
do you find a particular
page efficiently?
TitleMaker 2000 includes
a Page Index that lists all
pages in a condensed
form and makes it easy
to move the cursor to the
desired page.
Press PAGE INDEX
and a Page Index screen
appears.
Each page appears as
a single line beginning with the project symbol, the project number, the page
symbol, and the page number. The rest of the line contains as much of the text
from the page as will fit.
All pages and all projects are listed in order. The cursor shows the current
page. Use the arrow keys to find any page. As in the Editing Screen, you can
move quickly through the pages. Hold SHIFT while you press the arrow keys
and the cursor will jump a screenful at a time. Hold COMMAND while you
press arrow to move between projects.

Press NEW LINE/OK to exit the Page Index and return to the Editing
Screen.
Deleting a Page
To delete an entire page and its contents, use the Editing Screen to locate
the page. Position the cursor after the very last character of the previous page
and press MARK START. Position the cursor after the last character of the
page you want to delete and press MARK END. (This marks the entire page,
including the page symbols at the page’s start.) Press DELETE. Remember
that as a safeguard, in order to delete marked text, the cursor must be located
just after one of the marks.
If an entire page is marked, DELETE will erase page and its contents.
To delete a set of page symbols (merging the two pages), don’t mark any
text. Position the cursor just before the first character after the page symbols
and press DELETE. The page symbols will be deleted and the pages will
merge. The page characteristics (background color, effects, etc.) of the page
that preceded the symbols will be applied to the new combined page.
If nothing is marked, deleting just the page symbol line will merge the two pages.
If you delete something accidentally, remember that UNDO restores the
last thing you deleted as long as it is pressed immediately after the deletion.

Inserting a Page
To add a new page, or divide a page into two pages, position the cursor at
the desired location and press NEW PAGE. A new set of page symbols will
appear at that point and the new page will inherit the characteristics of the
page before it. You can then change the characteristics of either page.
Moving and Copying Pages

You can move or copy entire pages. Mark all the text on the page, including
the page symbols. In other words, position the cursor at the very end of the
page before the one you want to copy or move and press MARK START;
position it at the end of the page and press MARK END. Then move the
cursor to the desired location and press COPY or MOVE.

Chapter 8 • Projects
You can set up separate titling projects. Each project is stored
independently and can be changed without affecting other projects.
About Projects
With its ability to hold over 8000 characters and retain them even when
power is disconnected, the TitleMaker 2000 can hold the titles for many
different titling tasks at once. Projects provide a convenient way to keep each
job’s titles separate.
A project is simply a collection of pages. Each project is independent —
you can make changes in one project without the danger of accidentally
erasing or changing titles that are in another project. Projects can have any
number of pages or text characters and there is no limit to the number of
projects. You can have many small projects, one large one, or anything in
between. Projects can be named to make it easy to remember which project is
for each use.
Examples of How Projects are Used

• Projects are a convenient way to store titles for multiple jobs. For example,
an event videographer shoots two weddings and a party and is editing all
three in one week. Making each event into a separate project makes it easy
to avoid editing the wrong titles (especially if some of the pages are
similar).
• You can set up a project to store some standard text you expect to use
often, such as an introduction page you use on all your productions.
• You can use projects to share the unit with other users by keeping each
person’s work in different projects. Example: A language lab has a
TitleMaker 2000 and three teaching assistants use it to conduct language
tests. Each assistant has one or more projects. There might be a project
named “French 101,” another named “German II,” etc.
• You can create different, but related, presentations. Example: A sales
manager is visiting three accounts on one trip. The manager wants to
make the same presentation to each client but with different pages de-
pending on the type of customer and their particular needs. To make this
simple, the sales manager copies the material into three projects and
modifies each project for a different customer. Each project is named after
the intended account.
• Hint: When you turn the unit on, project 1 is always displayed. Use project 1 for
informational items such as messages between users.

Viewing Projects
The Editing Screen shows one project at a time. The Page Index screen
shows all pages and all projects in a list. In both cases, the page symbols
always include a project symbol. The number after the project symbol indi-
cates the number of the project that includes the page. For example, this page
is part of project 3:
Creating a Project
Projects can only be created in the Page Index screen. Press PAGE INDEX.
Position the cursor in any existing project and press COMMAND and NEW
PAGE simultaneously. A new project will appear after the project that con-
tained the cursor.
Once the new project has been created, press NEW LINE/OK to enter the
Editing Screen and begin adding titles. If you don’t add titles and/or name
the project, it will be automatically deleted the next time you display the Page
Index screen.
Naming a Project
Projects can be named. Names can act as a reminder of the purpose of a
project. They are especially handy when you have many projects with similar
contents.
To add a name, position the cursor within the brackets that follow the
project number in the first line of the project. Type the desired name. Names
can be 20 characters long and can contain any characters. You can change a
project name using the cursor and the normal editing functions.
Names appear only in the Page Index — only the project numbers are
shown in the Editing Screen.
Removing a Project or Erasing its

Contents
To delete a project, display the project using the Edit-
ing Screen. Press COMMAND + SHIFT + DELETE. A warning symbol ap-
pears to warn you the project is about to be discarded.
Press NEW LINE/OK to confirm this is what you want to do; press UNDO
if you change your mind.
You can delete all the titles in a project without removing the project. Mark
all text (press COMMAND + MARK START followed by COMMAND +

MARK END) and press DELETE. This leaves the project empty. If you have
not named the now-empty project, it will be deleted the next time you leave
the Page Index screen but if it has been named, it will be saved until you
explicitly delete it or delete its name.
In summary, the rule is: Empty projects without names are automatically
removed when you leave the Page Index unless the cursor is located in the
empty project. Projects that contain titles or a name are never deleted auto-
matically.
Moving Between Projects

Press COMMAND + SHIFT + UP or DOWN arrow to move between
projects. This works whether the Page Index or the Editing Screen is dis-
played. When you are playing titles, you must switch to the Editing Screen or
Page Index screen before you can switch projects.
Copying or Moving Text Between Projects

You can copy or move pages of text from one project to another. For
instance, you might have a set of opening credits you use with all your
productions permanently stored as project 1. Whenever you begin a new
production, you create a new project and copy the standard credits from
project 1 to the new project.
You can copy or move between projects using either the Page Index or
Editing Screen. Page Index is convenient for transferring many pages at once
since the pages are displayed in a more compact form, however it only allows
you to move or copy entire pages. If you want to move parts of pages, use the
Editing Screen (or use the Page Index to move the whole page first, then use
the Editing Screen to delete the portion you don’t want).
• Mark the pages you want, using MARK START and MARK END. (In Page
Index, you can only mark whole pages. )
• Press COMMAND + SHIFT + UP or DOWN arrow to move the cursor to
the desired project. Use the arrow keys to locate the desired location in the
project.
• Press COPY or MOVE and the marked pages will move or be duplicated at
the new location.

Chapter 9 • Changing Titles

You can easily make changes to the text on the screen. You can delete
or insert new text, reposition it, and more. You can even copy or
move a section of text without retyping.
Undo UNDO
Suppose you delete text and then realize you prefer the way it
was. The UNDO key lets you change your mind — it restores the
deleted text. Note that UNDO only restores the last text you deleted. Any
additional action, such as typing new text, makes the deletion permanent.
Simple Changes
Mozaa rt delete Moza rt
The DELETE key removes the character before the cursor.

To make a simple change, use the arrow keys to position the cursor after
the text you want to change and press DELETE. Each time you press the key,
the letter before the cursor will be removed. Type some new letters and they
will be added at the cursor location.
Marking Text for Major Changes

You can delete, copy, or move large
blocks of text at once. To do this, you first
mark the text you intend to change. Marked New York, Chicago,
text is bracketed by special marking charac-
ters so you can see where it starts and ends. Dallas, Seattle, Denver,
Any changes you make will affect all lines
that contain the marked text. Reno
To Mark Text:
• Position the cursor just before the first let-
ter you plan to change. Press MARK ❶ ❷ ❸
START. Note the MARK START charac- The word “Seattle” has been
ter (∂ ) which marks the start of the text. marked in this example.

• Position the cursor after the last letter you wish to change and press MARK
END (∏).
You can change the markings — simply move the cursor to a new place
and press MARK START or MARK END again and the start or end point will
move to the new location. The mark characters always show you what text is
marked.
The cursor changes to a “fat cursor” (∑) when text is marked. This is
handy when marked text is out of view, to let you know that changes could
affect off-screen text.
You can remove the marks completely by pressing UNDO.
Marking Whole Lines and

Pages
If you want to copy, move, or other-
wise change an entire line of text, place Holmes .... K. Miller
the MARK START character at the end of Watson .... A. M arion
the preceding line, rather than placing at
the start of the line you want. This way,
the marked selection includes the invis- ❶ ❷ ❸
In this example, the cursor is
ible NEW LINE character that created
located in the word “Marion” and
the line. This character “contains” the
the word “Watson” is marked.
characteristics of the line following it, so Because the MARK START
when the line is copied or moved, the symbol (∂ ) is located on the
characteristics will come along. previous line, the NEW LINE after
Hint: To mark all the text on a page, “Miller” is included within the
press SHIFT while you press MARK START marked selection. If this selection is
followed by SHIFT + MARK END. To mark copied, the color and other
all text on all pages, press COMMAND as characteristics of the “Watson” line
you press MARK START followed by COM-
MAND + MARK END.
Deleting Marked Text

Press DELETE immediately after marking text and the marked text will
disappear. To prevent accidental erasure, the cursor must be located just after
one of the marks.
If you accidentally press DELETE, press UNDO immediately and the text
will come back.
Replacing Marked Text

To replace a block of text with something new, mark the text and delete it
as described above. The cursor will remain where the deleted text was so you
can type something new to replace it.

Moving and Copying Text

Suppose you want to move some text elsewhere on the screen. Or you’d
like to copy some text so it appears in two or more places. Or you’d like
something to appear many times on a page. You could retype it — but
fortunately, there’s an easier way.
Mark the text, as described previously. Be sure both the start and end
points are marked.
• Move the cursor to a new location and press MOVE. The marked text will
disappear and reappear at the new spot. The text will still be marked so
you can make more changes.
• Move the cursor to a new location and press COPY. The old text will stay
where it was and a new copy of it will appear at the cursor’s location. The
new copy will be marked so you can COPY again to make more copies, or
make other changes.
Example:
You are creating a business presentation with a list of cities that will be
visited and decide to change the order of events to move the Paris and Venice
visits after the London visit. To do this, you mark the lines that contain Paris
and Venice. You position the cursor after London.
When you press MOVE, the marked text will move to the cursor location:
Grenoble Grenoble
Paris London
Venice Paris
London A Venice
MOVE
Madrid Madrid
Pressing COPY instead would have duplicated the marked text at the
cursor’s location:
Grenoble
Grenoble
Paris
Paris
Venice
Venice A
A
London
London
COPY Paris
Madrid
Venice
Madrid

Oops?
Note that UNDO does not reverse a copy or move operation. However,
you can undo the operation by immediately moving the cursor back to the
original location and pressing MOVE.
Memory
If this appears when you copy text, it means the copy
filled all of memory. You will need to remove some text
before you can add more.
Multiple Copies
After you copy, the newly copied text is marked. This makes it easy to
make many copies of the marked text. Simply press COPY as many times as
you like. COPY is pressed twice in the following example:
Mary & Lee

COPY
Mary & Lee & Lee
COPY
Mary & Lee & Lee & Lee
The Characteristics of Copied and Moved Text

Suppose you copy some red text to a new location, where the text is blue.
Will the copied text be blue or red?
There is an invisible NEW LINE character associated with each line. It is
located at the end of the previous line of text. If the NEW LINE character is
included in the marked text, then the characteristics will move with the text.
• If you copy part of the line, but no NEW LINE characters, the letters will
take the characteristics of their new home. In this case, the text would be
blue.
• If you place the MARK START at the end of the previous line, then the
NEW LINE character will be included and the characteristics of the line
will be copied as well. In this case, the resulting text would be red.
All this applies to other characteristics as well — fonts, outlines, borders,
etc.

Chapter 10 • Positioning Text

You can automatically center each line of text or you can position it
against either the right or left edge of the screen. You can also adjust
the vertical position of the text on each page, centering the text or
positioning it at the top or bottom of the page.
POSITION When you type text, it automatically appears at the center of the
screen. As you type more, the whole block of text remains centered.
You can change this using the four-arrow POSITION key.
Positioning Horizontally: Left, Right, Center

Position the cursor on a text line (or mark text in several lines, as described
in “Marking Text for Major Changes,” in Chapter 9, “Changing Titles”). Press
and release the POSITION key, then press the RIGHT or LEFT arrow on the
arrow keypad. The selected lines will change position, between the left side
of the screen, the center, and the right side.
Abelard Abelard Abelard

& & &
Heloise Heloise Heloise
You can position many lines at once by marking text. Any line that
contains any marked text will change.
Positioning Vertically: Up, Down, Center

You can also automatically position the text vertically, making it appear at
the top, middle, or bottom of a screen.
Gable
& Gable
Lombard &
Lombard Gable
&
Lombard
Position the cursor anywhere in the page you want to change. Press and
release the POSITION key, then press the UP or DOWN arrow on the arrow
keypad. The text on the Editing Screen will not change. Instead, the new page
symbol will change to show you the new position. The text itself won’t show
its new positioning until you press PLAY.

You can vertically position many pages at once by marking text, then
adjusting the position. Any page that contains any marked text will be
changed.
Additional Positioning Hints

You can fine-tune the horizontal positioning by adding spaces to the front
of each line, or using tabs (see the section, “Tabs,” in Chapter 6). You can fine-
tune the vertical position on a page by adding blank lines to the page (press
NEW LINE/OK a number of times). Since the height of a line is determined
by font and size, you can further fine tune vertical positioning by changing
the font and size of the blank lines.

Chapter 11 • How to Use Menus

Fonts, colors, and other characteristics are defined using menus,
which show all the available choices.
Concept
FONT LETTER OUTLINE BORDERS BACKGROUND EFFECTS
FONT & SIZE STYLE COLOR PATTERN COLOR PATTERN COLOR STYLE COLOR PATTERN IN OUT
The keys in the top row are called menu keys because when you press one,
you see a menu on the screen. Like the menu in a restaurant, TitleMaker 2000
menus are simply lists of what’s available.
In this menu, for example, you can choose
the style of your titles — shadow, outline, bold,
and letter spacing. Note that you choose from
actual examples of the style, rather than ab-
stract names.
Sub-menus
Menus can contain “sub-menus” which
show additional choices or alternate ways of making a choice. In the menu
shown in the illustration, there are three sub-menus. The top sub-menu is
used to add outlines or shadows to the titles. The middle sub-menu changes
the spacing between letters. The bottom sub-menu is used to make the titles
bold.
The MARK START key is used to determine which sub-menu is active.
The TAB and MARK END keys can also be used. The inactive menus are
dimmed (changed to a subdued gray) to show they’re not in use. In the
example, the top sub-menu is active (the others are grayed).
The color menus are slightly different: the bottom sub-menu (which con-
tains a palette of colors) is not grayed. Instead, the triangle-shaped highlight
arrows tell you which sub-menu is active.
Highlights and Choices

One item in the active sub-menu is highlighted to show the current choice.
The arrow keys are used to move the highlight to make a different choice.

Using the Menus

MARK
START
LETTER [ PLAY
COLOR PATTERN
❶ ❷ ❸ ❹
Using a menu is simple:
• Position the cursor in the line you want to change, or mark the text you
want to change.
∂ Press the appropriate menu key.
∑ If there are sub-menus containing additional choices, use MARK START
to determine which sub-menu is active (see the previous section, “Sub-
menus”).
∏ Use the arrow keys to highlight the desired choice.
π When the correct choices are highlighted, press one of the following:
• NEW LINE/OK to make the choice and return to the editing
screen.
• PLAY to make the choice and play the page, as changed.
• UNDO or DELETE to return to the editing screen without mak-
ing any changes.
• Another menu key to make the indicated changes and immedi-
ately move to another menu to make additional changes.

Chapter 12 •
How Characteristics Affect Text
Some characteristics affect lines and others affect pages. This chapter
describes what is affected and gives strategies for efficiently creating
titles with the characteristics you desire.
Concept
The term characteristics refers to all the ways titles can be modified — font,
colors, effects, scrolling, etc. Line and page position are defined using the
POSITION key (Chapter 10). All other characteristics are defined using menus
(Chapters 11-17).
How Characteristics Affect Lines and Pages

• Changes to Pattern, Background, and Effect menus always affect the entire
page.
• Border and background color changes also affect the entire page.
• All other changes affect the entire line. You can’t mix colors, styles, etc. on a
line.
• If you have used the MARK keys to mark some text, changes to character-
istics will affect all lines that contain any of the marked text.
• If no text has been marked, then changes affect just the line or page that
contains the cursor.
Examples:
Margaret-Bourke White Margaret-Bourke White

Alfred Sti eglitz Alfred Sti eglitz
Harold Edgerton Harold Edgerton
Jerry Uelsmann Jerry Uelsmann
Henri-Cartier Bresson Henri-Cartier Bresson
Text has been marked, so the font and color change is applied to all lines that contain
marked text. The line that contains the cursor is unchanged since it contains no marked
text.

Margaret-Bourke White Margaret-Bourke White

Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz
Harold Edgerton Harold Edgerton
Jerry Uels mann Jerry Uels mann
Henri-Cartier Bresson Henri-Cartier Bresson
No text has been marked, so the font and color change is

applied only to the line that contains the cursor.
Note: In the Editing Screen, several pages can appear on the screen at once. The
background and borders of the entire screen will always be displayed using just one
set of patterns and colors — the ones used by the page that contains the cursor —
even if the other pages are defined using different patterns and colors. As you move
the cursor to a different page, that page’s patterns and colors will be used by the entire
screen.
When PLAY is used to display the actual titles, each page will use its own
patterns and colors.
Choosing Characteristics Before or After Typing the Text

There are two ways to create text with the characteristics you desire:
• You can choose the characteristics and then type new text. The characteris-
tics are automatically applied as you type.
• You can type the text first and embellish it later.
New Lines and Pages Inherit Characteristics

When you create a new line, it has all the characteristics of the previous
line — color, font, style, etc. Similarly, a new page has the characteristics of
the previous page — effects, background pattern and color, etc.
In other words, all newly typed items inherit the characteristics of the
character before the cursor.
Changes
It is not necessary to retype text to change characteristics. Simply mark the
text and change it, as described in the following chapters.
Note that some changes, such as the use of a larger font or wider letter
spacing, may push characters off the screen. Characters are never deleted
when they are pushed out of view. To bring all the characters back on screen,
you can choose narrower letter spacing, shorten the text, or break the line in
two by positioning the cursor somewhere in the line and pressing the NEW
LINE/OK key.

Copying Characteristics
You can copy characteristics, such as color, font, effects, etc. from one area
of text to another. Mark the text you want to change. Move the cursor so it’s
immediately after a letter that has the desired characteristic. Press the appro-
priate menu key (LETTER COLOR, for instance). Press NEW LINE/OK and
the marked text will be changed to match the character before the cursor. You
can then use other menus to change other characteristics. To change all
characteristics, simply press each menu key followed by NEW LINE/OK.

Chapter 13 •
Fonts, Sizes, and Styles
TitleMaker 2000 offers a wide variety of ways to add flair to your
titles. You can independently change font, size, and style, for hun-
dreds of combinations.
❶
Font and Size
The first menu
key brings up the
FONT & SIZE ❸
FONT
menu. It is used ❷
FONT & SIZE STYLE
to choose the font
and size that will
be applied to each line of titles. (A
“font” is the style, or shape, of the
letters.)
Each font/size choice can be used as is or it can be doubled in size,
horizontally, vertically, or both. The four sym-
bols in the top sub-menu (∂ ) determine
whether the size will be doubled. When you
select any of the size-doubling options, the
fonts at the bottom of the screen are displayed
doubled, as they will appear on the screen.
The size-doubling options reduce the reso-
lution of the letters, making them appear more
jagged. For the smoothest letters, use fonts
The fonts are displayed as without size doubling. All the undoubled fonts
they will appear. In this case, provide maximum resolution.
horizontal doubling is The bottom portion of the menu (∑) is used
highlighted and the fonts are to choose the font. Use MARK START to make
doubled horizontally. the bottom sub-menu active and use the arrow
keys to
move the highlight bar (∏) to the de-
sired font.
For example, the screen shown here
is composed of four lines. All share
the same font but have different dou-
bling options set using the top-menu.
The top line is undoubled, the second
line is doubled horizontally, the third

line is doubled vertically, and the last line is doubled in both directions.
Upper-Case-Only Fonts, Mixed Fonts

Some of the fonts have only upper case letters. Whether you type upper or
lower case letters, only upper case will be displayed on the screen. If you later
change to a font that has upper and lower case, the letters will appear as you
typed them.
One font (the cartoon-style font) contains two styles in one. Its upper case
characters use a heavier style than its lighter weight letters:
Cartoon-style font typed as JULIUS CAESAR, as julius caesar, and as Julius Caesar
Hints on Using Fonts and Sizes

Here are a few tips from the pros.
• First, note that using too many fonts and sizes can
create a loud, jumbled look. When you watch Macbeth
television, notice that professional productions Don Miller
seldom use more than a one or two styles at once.
Lady Macbeth
• Combine fonts and sizes in a harmonious way, Ruth Miller
using two sizes of one font or using distinctive
styles together. For example, when creating credits, put the character’s
name in one style and the actor’s name in another.
• The smallest sizes should be reserved for minor information such as
copyright notices. Note that they’ll be somewhat harder to read after they
have been recorded on videotape.
• The largest sizes are also special — save them for when you really want to
grab the viewer’s attention!
• Remember that the doubled size options create a more jagged appearance,
so they should be reserved for when
you need their larger
sizes or the very tall
or very wide effect.
FONT
FONT & SIZE STYLE Title Style

Use the Title Style menu to add
shadows, outlines, bold, and other style
modifications to a line of text.

The menu is divided into three sub-menus. Use MARK START to activate
the desired sub-menu and the arrow keys to highlight the desired choice.
Each line of titles you have typed can use a different style. You can choose
any combination — shadow plus condensed type, outline plus bold, etc. In
all, there are 36 combinations of styles.
These styles are in addition to the col-
ors, fonts, patterns, and other changes ❹ ❺ ❻
made by other menus.
Outlines and Shadows

The top section of the Title Style menu determines whether the titles are
plain or have a shadow or outline.
An outline (∫ ) is an edge that completely encloses the letter (π ). A shadow
(❻) is similar to an outline except that it is slightly wider below and to the left
of the letter, giving the letter a raised look. The shadow is a subtle effect,
providing a slight separation between the letters and the background. All
shadowed letters also have an outline
— that is, a thin outline surrounds
the letter and a slightly broader
shadow appears to the left and be-
low.
Special note: One font treats out-
line and shadow differently. (In the
font list, it’s the small font listed im-
mediately after the handwriting
fonts.) When outline is selected, a
block effect is produced in which each
letter is surrounded by box. You can
use the Outline Color menu to change the color of the boxes. The block effect
is only available with this font and the font does not have the capability of
producing ordinary outlines.This font and this effect work particularly well
in doubled sizes.
Spacing
The middle section of the Title Style menu lets you adjust the spacing
between the letters.
Bold
The bottom sub-menu provides bold characters, to provide extra empha-
sis. (You can also create an extra-bold effect using the outline styles, as
described in the hints, below).
Hints on Using Styles

• Use mixed styles with some caution. As with fonts and sizes, mixing too
many styles creates a haphazard, overly complex look.

• Some combinations will make the text harder to read or less attractive. For
instance, if you use the spacing option to place letters closer together, the
edges of shadows, outlines, or bold letters may be clipped.
If letter spacing is set too tight, letters will be clipped, as in the bottom sample.
• Bold letters can make a bold statement. They can also improve readability
when small titles are placed over a video background.
Hint: For extra bold letters, combine a bold setting with an outline in the same
color as the letter. Note that very bold letters can cause the openings in letters such
as “o” and “e” to close, making the results hard to read.
• Outlines and shadows are particularly useful for making titles stand out
when the letters and backgrounds are similar in color. They also work well
when titles are placed against a busy video background.
• The color and pattern of the outline or shadow can be set independently of
the letter color — you can have blue letters with a rainbow patterned
outline, for instance. By making the letter and background the same color,
you can make outlined letters that look hollow. By making the outline and
letter the same color, you can make the letters look fatter than usual, in a
way that is different from the effect of bold letters. Other effects are
possible — experiment!
• Choose narrow spacing to squeeze more letters on a line or give a busy,
high-tension look. Use wider spacing to convey a more relaxed tone and
make the titles easier to read. You can widen the spacing even more by
typing one or more spaces between each letter.
VIDEONICS
VIDEONICS
VIDEONICS
V I D E O N I C S

Chapter 14 • Colors
The Video TitleMaker provides over a million colors! In a gaudy
mood? You can use rainbow letters with blue outlines on a red tinted
video background with green and white patterned borders!
Letters, backgrounds, outlines, and borders can be independently colored.
The colors can be combined with patterns, including your moving video.
Each line of text can use different colors and each page can use different
background and border colors.
Color Menus
LETTER OUTLINE BORDERS BACKGROUND
COLOR PATTERN COLOR PATTERN COLOR STYLE COLOR PATTERN
There are four Color menus; one each for backgrounds, letters, outlines,
and borders. All work the same way.
About the Color Palette

The simplest way to choose a
color is to use the palette of sample
colors (∂ ) at the bottom of the
❷
Color menu. ❸
Each Color menu shows the
same colors. The palette list repeats
— after the last color, the top of
the list reappears. You can reach ❶
any color by moving up or down.
Triangular pointers highlight the
current choice and it is also shown
in the sample patch (∏) in the middle of the screen.
The swatches in the palette change as you use the TitleMaker 2000. When
you first use the unit, the palette contains a set of pre-defined colors. As you
create new colors, the new user colors are added to the palette, as described in
the section, “User Colors,” below.
Choosing a Color
Use MARK START, if necessary, to make the bottom sub-menu active.
Then simply use the arrow keys to choose the desired color swatch. Press
SHIFT while you press the UP or DOWN arrow key to scroll through the

colors a screenful at a time. Press COMMAND + UP jumps to the first of the

pre-defined colors; COMMAND + DOWN jumps to the first user-defined
color.
Press NEW LINE/OK or PLAY and the line or page you had selected uses
the color you highlighted.
Creating a New Color

You can create your own
custom color. Start by se-
lecting a color from the pal-
ette (∂ ) at the bottom of the menu. Then modify the color using the color
control bars (∑) at the top of the menu.
Use MARK START to activate the control bars. Use the arrow keys to
adjust the pointers on the control bars. The UP and DOWN arrows choose
which of the three bars is active; the RIGHT and LEFT arrows adjust the
sliding control of the active bar. Use SHIFT with the arrows to move the
slider faster, use COMMAND to move the pointer all they way to the end of
the bar. The number to the right of each bar shows its value, to make it easy to
recreate a color later.
• The top bar adjusts the hue of the color — whether it’s red, yellow, blue,
etc.
• The middle bar adjusts the saturation — the strength of the color.
• The bottom bar adjusts the lightness of the color between black on one end
and white on the other.
These three adjustments are known as the HLS color model. It’s a bit like
mixing paints. The hue control determines what color paint you are using.
The saturation control shows how much of that color is in the mix. And the
lightness control is something like mixing in more or less white or black
paint.
The sample color swatch (∏) in the middle region of the screen shows the
resulting color. When the color is correct, press NEW LINE/OK and the color
will be added to the user colors.
Using the User Colors

Whenever you create a new color, it
is placed in the color palette. User col-
ors are displayed with a shortened bar.
They are sorted by color, not by the
order they were created.
Hint: To quickly locate the user colors,
press COMMAND + DOWN arrow and
the first (top-most) user color in the list is
The user colors are indicated by a
highlighted. Press COMMAND + UP ar- shortened color swatch.

row to highlight the first pre-defined color (which is just below the last user color).
The palette will hold up to 64 user colors. When there are 64 and you add
another, the color closest to the newly created one will be removed. When a
user color is removed from the palette, there is no effect on titles that use the
color. The titles continue to use the color; it is simply not displayed in the
palette.
There is no way to manually remove a color other than completely reset-
ting the unit. Colors are removed only after 64 user colors have been defined.
Hints on Using Colors

• As with title styles, it’s a good idea to exercise some restraint. It’s tempting
to use lots of wild colors but unless your video production is as wild as the
colors, they may detract from the result.
• Don’t forget black, white, and gray. With the amount of color we see every
day on television, black and white can be a refreshing change. In addition,
black, white, and gray tend to look sharper, especially for small fonts.
• Some colors work better on television than others, especially when they’re
recorded with a VCR. For instance, blue on green doesn’t work well;
bright reds tend to smear; white, black, and gray work well with almost
everything. Extremely bright colors may not look as sharp when they’re
recorded.
Some background colors are “noisy” (they give a speckled or snowy
appearance) when they’re recorded by most VCRs. Dark colors, especially
dark blue, are likely to be noisy. Solid red also tends to be noisy. Extremely
bright purples and oranges may also be a problem. Medium colors are
usually fine. Light colors, such as sky blue, and black or gray backgrounds
work particularly well.
• Black or white outlines or shadows are often a good idea: They separate
the letters from the background, making them more legible. If you’re
using small letters, it’s best to use black or white, whichever contrasts the
most with the background.

Chapter 15 • Patterns
With the TitleMaker 2000, you’re not limited to plain solid colors. A
variety of patterns, including moving “animated” patterns can be
used. They can be colored and changed, for thousands of interesting
variations. Finally, you can mix video into the background pattern
or color for a “transparent pattern” or “tinted video” effect.
You can apply patterns to your letters, backgrounds, outline/shadows,
and borders. Each page can use a different type and color of pattern.
Pattern Menus
❶
The top of each Pattern menu
(∂ ) shows four basic pattern
choices. Use MARK START to ❷
make the top sub-menu active and
use the arrow keys to select one of ❸
the pattern types. The rest of the ❹
menu changes appearance some-
what, adding or removing appro-
priate sub-menus, depending on
which pattern you’ve selected.
The solid color pattern displays a solid color, using whatever color you picked in
the Color menu.
Pixel patterns are made up of dots and lines of various styles. The second sub-
menu (∑) chooses the style. The Color menu affects one of the colors used in the
pattern; the other color is determined by the style you choose in the second sub-
menu.
Rainbow patterns use brightly colored gradients. The second sub-menu (∑)
chooses from 16 styles of rainbow. The Color menu has no effect on the rainbow.
VIDEO uses your moving video material as the background.
A sample (π ) at the bottom of the menu shows you what you’ve selected.

Selecting Different Rainbow and Pixel Patterns

If you selected a rainbow or pixel pattern using the top sub-menu, you can
choose from a variety of styles. Use MARK START to make the second sub-
menu active and use the arrow keys to highlight different pattern numbers.
The patch at the bottom shows you the style you have highlighted. Note that
some of the styles move. These are called animated patterns.
One Pattern per Page

Important note: All same-type patterns used on a page must be the same,
whether used for background, letters, border, or outlines. For instance, if you
use rainbow for outlines and borders, both will have the same color, style, etc.
Likewise, all pixel patterns will match within a page. Each page can use a
different color and style but within one page, you can use one rainbow and
one pixel pattern.
Note also that in the Editing Screen, when two pages are on the screen at
once, all patterns will match the patterns used on the page that holds the
cursor. As you move the cursor between pages, all the patterns on the screen
will change to match the ones used on the page that holds the cursor.
Mixing Video into a Background Pattern

You can mix video into a background pattern, blending both images on
the screen. This creates a transparent effect as if the pattern were a see-
through filter over your video. To do this, use the video mixing control in the
Background Pattern menu. This control doesn’t appear on other Pattern
menus.
The position of the diamond-shaped marker determines how video and

pattern are mixed in the background. When the marker is to the left, the
pattern is opaque, with no video. As it moves to the right, more video is
added and the pattern is gradually removed until, at the far right, the back-
ground is all video with no pattern.
Hints on Using Patterns

• Important: Rainbow patterns are very bright and should be used spar-
ingly. Some video equipment may react to the brighter patterns. If you
encounter undesired fringing or overly bright colors, try mixing the rain-
bow pattern with video (see “Mixing Video into a Background Pattern,”
above) or choose the more subdued patterns such as numbers 4, 5, and 11.

• When using complex patterns, pay special attention to the choice of title
style and size, to avoid making the titles hard to read. Note that complex
patterns may not be apparent when used as outlines or shadows.
• Try applying a rainbow pattern to the letters or their outlines. Because
each letter covers only a portion of the rainbow pattern, it will look as if
each letter is a different color.
• Add a rainbow pattern to a border and add a scroll effect (borders and
scrolling are discussed in later chapters). The rainbow moves inside the
border. A similar effect can be done with the pixel pattern.
• Try using video letters on a video background with a tint mixed into the
background (use the video mixing control described in the last section to
mix a solid color with the video background). Try this with and without
outlines and shadows. The result is an interesting video-on-video effect.
• Mix a solid and transparent pattern. Use a the same pattern for the back-
ground and the letters. Then modify the background pattern using the
VIDEO/PATTERN slider to make the background transparent. The result
is patterned letters on a transparent patterned background.

Chapter 16 • Borders
Borders can be used to separate titles or to add an interesting graphic
element. They can use any of the TitleMaker 2000’s colors and
patterns.
BORDERS You can place a horizontal border line above or below any line
of text. You can create a box that surrounds a block of titles. Each
COLOR STYLE
page’s borders can use a dif-
ferent color and pattern.
Border Style Menu

The top parts of the menu deter-
mine the border pattern. They work
the same way as the other Pattern
menus. Use MARK START to deter-
mine which sub-menu is active and the
arrow keys to select the desired pat-
tern and/or pattern style.
Note the “one pattern per page” rule, discussed in Chapter 15, “Patterns.”
To create the border, use MARK START to make the last sub-menu active
and use the arrow keys to choose the type of border you want:
A B C D E
Using these choices, you can place a box around the text (E) or you can
place a border line above (C), below (B), or along both sides (D). Borders are
always applied to the entire line (that is, you can’t border part of a line).
Placing a Box Around Text

To wrap a box around some lines of titles, mark the text as described in the
section, “Marking Text for Major Changes” in Chapter 9. In the Border Style
menu, choose the box symbol from the bottom sub-menu (E). The selected
pattern will be wrapped all the way around the text lines that include the
marked text. Note that if part of a line is marked, the entire line will be
included.
You can box a
single line with-
out marking text:
With no text
marked, simply
leave the cursor

anywhere in the line and use the menu to select the box. A box will appear
around that line.
Placing a Line Above, Below, or Between Text Lines

You can add a horizontal border line between any two lines of text. Place
the cursor on one of the text lines and use the “line above” (C) or “line below”
(B) symbol to place a
border line either
above or below the
text. Adding a bor-
der line below one
text line is the same
as adding a border
line above the follow-
ing text line.
Hint: You can create a double border line. Create a blank line of titles. Add a
border line below the new, empty line. Add a border line below the text line above it.
This trick places a line above and below the blank line. You can change the distance
between the two border lines by changing the font and size of the blank text line
(which changes its height).
Side Bars
You can also place bars on the sides of text using the “side” symbol (D) .
Complex Borders
Whenever you change a border style, the
new style replaces any borders already in Abc Abc Abc Abc
place. You can create some interesting bor- Def Def Def Def
der patterns: Ghi Ghi Ghi Ghi
∂ Simple box. Mark text using MARK START

and END and add the box border style.
❶ ❷ ❸ ❹
∑ Box with lines inside. Create a box as in ∂ . Remove the marks by pressing
UNDO and place the cursor on the second line, inside the box. Add the
box border style. Repeat for each line in the box.
∏ Box plus lines. Add a blank line above and below the box. Set the blank
lines to the smallest Font & Size. Add a border line below the blank text
line above the box. Add a border line above the one below the box.
π Lines. Mark text, including the line of text following the last line. Add a
border line above. Each text line will have its own border line.
Hint: Don’t forget that characters can make excellent borders. Use a row of bullet
and pictorial characters (such as ACCENT + J), dashes, the letter O, etc. Make them
hollow by making them the same color as background and giving them a contrasting
outline.

Removing borders
To remove borders, mark the text and choose the no-border symbol (A) in
the BORDER menu.
❶ ❷ ❸
A
❹ ❺ ❻

F G
Chapter 17 • D
Effects, E
A
Scrolls, and F
Crawls
B
Effects provide interesting C
transitions between pages of
titles. They include simple
cuts, fades, wipes, slides, scroll, and crawl.
TitleMaker 2000 includes a variety of transition effects. You can use one
effect to introduce a page of titles and a separate effect to end the page. Each
can be set to any of eight speeds. You can set a duration for each page to
determine how long it will be displayed before the out-effect removes it. You
can set an infinite duration to display a page until you press PLAY again. You
can also use scrolls and crawls, at any of eight speeds and in four directions,
to make your titles march across the screen.
Page Symbols
The Editing Screen includes a set of page symbols at the start of each page.
In addition to the project, page number, and vertical positioning of the text on
the page, they tell you which effects have been set to start and end the page,
whether the page will scroll or crawl, and how long the page will be dis-
played between transitions.
In the examples shown, page bar A shows a page that starts with a cut (∂ ),
remain on the screen for 6.5 seconds (∑), and ends with a fade (∏).
The next page (B) opens with an imploding wipe (π ) (all four edges sweep
in to the center), remains on the screen until PLAY is pressed (∫ ), and ends
with an exploding wipe (❻) (the edges sweep from the center out to the
edges).
Effects Menus
The Effects In menu contains three sub-menus. It is used to determine
which effect will be used to start the page.
The Effects Out menu is used to choose the effect used to remove the page.
It is identical (and works the same way) except that the bottom sub-menu is
omitted.

Transition Effects: Cuts, Fades, Slides, and Wipes

• A cut (D) makes the page appear or disappear instantly, without any
transition. The speed setting doesn’t affect a cut.
• A fade (E) causes one page to fade away, then makes the next one fade in.
• In a wipe (F), a line or corner sweeps across the screen. If the wipe is an
Effect In, the moving boundary reveals the new page of titles in its wake. If
it’s an Effect Out, the wipe removes the titles. The TitleMaker 2000 in-
cludes 18 wipes. Any of them can be used as an Effect In or an Effect Out.
• A slide or half-scroll (G)causes the entire page of titles to slide on or off the
page.
• The in- and out- transition effects can be different. For instance, you could
have titles fade in, then wipe away. You could have them slide in from the
right, hold for a few seconds, then slide out the bottom.
Slide Notes
• Horizontal slides become jittery (vibrate) when the page contains too
much text or the slide is too fast. To remedy this, reduce the amount of text
on the page, split the text into several sequential pages, slow down the
slide, or use a vertical slide.
Vertical slides (up or down), scrolls, and crawls are smooth at all speeds.
• If the text does not all fit on the page, text may be cut off, depending on
slide direction and position of the text on the page. For instance, if a line
that is wider than the screen, a horizontal slide stops when the text reaches
the edge. Characters that are past the training edge are not displayed. You
can display the missing characters by editing the page so all characters fit
— break the line into two or use a smaller font, size, or style.
Choosing a Transition Effect

Start with the normal Editing Screen and place the cursor on the page you
want to assign effects. Press EFFECTS-IN or EFFECTS-OUT.
Use MARK START to highlight the top sub-menu and use the arrow keys
to highlight the desired effect. In the Effects In menu, the selected effect will
be used to introduce the titles; in the Effects Out menu, it will be used when
the page is removed from the screen.
Setting the Transition Speed

The second sub-menu (A) determines how quickly the effect will occur.
“1” is the slowest speed, “8” is the fastest.

Displaying the Page

The third sub-menu (C, previous page), which appears only in the Effects
In menu, determines how the title is displayed after the In-Effect is per-
formed. You can display the page for a fixed amount of time, cause it to
remain until it is manually continued, or use a scroll or crawl.
1 2 3 4
To use this sub-menu, highlight it using MARK START, as usual. Use the
RIGHT and LEFT arrows to highlight the appropriate symbols and change
their settings, as described in the following sections.
Setting Duration
To set a fixed duration, highlight the numbers next to the clock symbol (1).
The numbers show the duration of the page — how long it will be displayed
— in minutes, seconds, and tenths of seconds. They can be set from 0:00.0,
which will display it just for an instant, to just under ten minutes.
Highlight the clock symbol and its numbers and type a value, using the
number keys. To set a duration to 10.5 seconds, for instance, you would type
1, then 0, then 5. If you enter 60 or more as the number of seconds, the
TitleMaker will convert it to minutes — 72 seconds would be changed to
1:12.0, for example.
The numbers scroll in from the right. If you make a mistake and want to re-
enter the number, press 0 several times first, to clear the number.
Hint: To display a page longer than 9:59.9, duplicate the page using COPY
(“Moving and Copying Pages,” in Chapter 7). End the first page and start the second
page with cuts. The cuts will be invisible, since both pages are identical, and the
result will be that the two pages will appear as one. You can repeat this to display a
page as long as you like.
Infinite Duration
You can set a page to “infinite” duration — when it’s played, the page will
remain on the screen until the PLAY key is pressed again. To do this, high-
light the infinity symbol (2).
Scroll and Crawl

The last two symbols in the bottom sub-menu indicate that the titles on the
page should move across the screen in a full-page scroll (3) or a crawl (4).
• In a scroll, the page of titles will move up, starting at the bottom of the
screen, and continue to scroll off the top, the way credits are generally

done at the end of a movie. The color, font, and other characteristics of
each line will be preserved. Borders will scroll as well.
• In a crawl, the titles turn into a single line of text and move across the
screen from right to left, until they disappear at the left edge of the screen,
the way a news bulletin is displayed over a
television show. A space is inserted between
San each pair of lines. If two lines have different
Francisco characteristics, the first line will crawl off the
screen before the second one begins its crawl.
You can make a crawl occur at the top,
bottom, or middle of the page, depending on
whether the page is set for top, middle, or
bottom vertical positioning (as described in
Chapter 10).
Scroll and Crawl Notes

• When you use scroll or crawl, the
transition effects for that page are
disabled. You can’t combine fades,
wipes, and slides with a scroll or
crawl.
• Use the speed setting of the In
Effect’s menu to set the speed of the
scroll or crawl.
• A scroll is similar to a slide-up ex-
cept that it scrolls straight through,
never stopping in the middle. In ad-
dition, a slide can be in any of four directions and it is possible to make a
page slide in one direction and out another.
• If a page has more than 40-60 lines (depending on the amount of text in
each line), it may be too long for a vertical scroll. If the memory warning
symbol appears when you attempt to play the scrolled page, break it into
two pages or remove some lines.
Hints on Using Effects

• Use simple effects most of the time, reserving fancy effects for when you
want to attract attention, such as
when using the TitleMaker 2000
to create video presentations.
• Use complementary effects for in and out. For example, try a wipe from
the center for the in effect; then wipe back to the center for the out effect.
• Try a medium-speed slide to start a page and a high-speed slide at the end.

• When pages use different background or border colors and patterns, most
effects will happen in two steps. For example, suppose you use fades to
change from titles on a red background to titles on a green background.
The titles on the first page will fade first, leaving the red background. Then
the background will cut to green, and the in effect for the second page will
occur. For the simplest effects, use the same background color and the
same patterns on both pages.

Chapter 18 • Superimposing
Titles
Titles can be superimposed over any video source.
Superimposed titles are often used in professional productions to identify
people, places, times, settings — or the score of the game! They can also be
used for subtitles or just as a way to play credits with an interesting back-
ground. TitleMaker 2000 allows you to superimpose. Effects, such as scroll-
ing, can be used to bring titles in and out over the source video.

To superimpose titles on video, change the background pattern to VIDEO
(rather than a solid color or pattern) as described in Chapter 15, “Patterns.”
• Position the cursor on the page that contains the titles you wish to super-
impose.
• Press the BACKGROUND PATTERN menu button.
• Use MARK START to activate the top sub-menu. Use the RIGHT arrow
key to highlight the VIDEO symbol. Press NEW LINE/OK.
• Confirm that your video source is running (start the VCR or camcorder)
and press PLAY.
The OUTPUT monitor shows your page of titles superimposed over the
source video.

with a Transparent Pattern
You can mix a background color or pattern with the video, creating a see-
through pattern effect:
• Use the top sub-menu in the BACKGROUND PATTERN menu to choose
solid color or a pixel or rainbow pattern.
• Use MARK START to highlight the bottom sub-menu (the Video/Pattern
slider). Use the RIGHT and LEFT arrow keys to select a mix between video
and the pattern.
• Press NEW LINE/OK.
command PLAY

Making Titles Come and Go

You can make superimposed titles appear for a while, then disappear. You
can make them appear using an effect, such as a fade or slide, then cause
them to disappear using another effect.
To do this, place blank pages with video backgrounds between pages of
titles.
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• Create a page of superimposed titles.
• At the end of the page, press NEW PAGE but don’t type anything on this
page. Set its background to VIDEO.
• Press NEW PAGE again and type the next titles.
When you play these pages, the first titles appear, then transition to the
blank page. Since this page is empty and the background is plain video, the
result is that the titles simply go away. The next page can then introduce
more titles.
You can change the duration of each page to control when it appears and
disappears or you can play the pages manually (Chapter 19) to introduce
them on cue.
Add effects to these pages (fades, wipes, scrolls, and slides) to add interest
to the titles as they come and go.

Chapter 19 • Playing Titles

You can play titles many ways. Like a VCR, TitleMaker 2000 allows
you to play titles in forward or reverse, at various speeds.
After you have created and edited your titles using the Editing Screen, you
are ready to play them. Playing titles displays the titles you have typed on the
screen with the backgrounds, effects, positioning, and other details you have
selected. The resulting titles can be recorded or displayed.
TitleMaker 2000 provides many ways to play titles. You can play auto-
matically or manually, in forward or reverse. You can play some pages or all
of them. You can even play a series of pages repeatedly, to create an eye-
catching “video billboard.” This chapter describes the different methods.
They are summarized in the list at the end of the chapter.
Projects
Titles are always played from the current project. To play titles from a
different project, you must switch projects by pressing COMMAND + SHIFT
+ UP or COMMAND + SHIFT + DOWN until you see the project you want to
play.
Important Concepts
• If any pages are marked, the PLAY key plays those pages over and over
again.
If no pages are marked, play starts with the page that contains the cursor and
continues until the last page in the project is played.
• Pages are played using the durations, effects, and other choices you set up
when you created the titles. Each page will appear for the amount of time
you specified using the duration option in the Effects In menu (Chapter
17). The effects you specified will be used to transition between pages.
If you chose infinite duration for a page, display stops with that page until
PLAY is pressed again.
• PLAY works the same way whether you start from the Editing Screen or
from the Page Index screen.
Playing All Pages

The easiest way to play all pages in a project is to press COMMAND and
PLAY at the same time. COMMAND + PLAY ignores marks and the cursor
location. It plays all pages, starting with page one, using the effects and
durations you have defined.

Playing Some Pages

To start playing from any page, be sure no text is marked (press UNDO if
there are marks). Position the cursor on the desired page (using either the
Editing Screen or the Page Index) and press PLAY. Play will begin at the
cursor location.
To play a range of pages, mark text that spans those pages. Position the
cursor anywhere in the first page you want to display and press MARK
START. Position the cursor in the last page and press MARK END. Press
PLAY and the marked pages are displayed in a “loop” — after the last
marked page plays, the first marked page plays and the sequence begins
again.
Playing Backwards
Press SHIFT while you press PLAY to play the pages in reverse order. You
can also reverse the direction while pages are playing by pressing just the
SHIFT key. Press PLAY again to continue playing in the forward direction.
(You can also play backwards, a page at a time, using the LEFT arrow key, as
described in a later section).
Pause
You can pause display at any time by pressing the SPACE bar (either half
of the bar will work). The currently displayed page remains on the screen,
even after its duration time has finished. Press SPACE again (or PLAY) to
resume automatic play.
Hint: This is analogous to the pause or still function on a VCR.
Search (Cue and Review)

When you are playing titles, you can force the immediate display of the
next page, even if the current page’s duration has not finished. To do this,
press PLAY. The next page is displayed immediately and automatic play
continues from that page on.
You can back up a page by holding SHIFT and pressing PLAY. The current
page ends, the previous page is displayed, and play continues in the reverse
direction.
Hint: Pressing PLAY or SHIFT + PLAY is a handy way to zip through the pages
without ending automatic play. It is analogous to the search (cue and review)
features of a VCR.
Manual Play (Slide Projector Mode)

You can make the TitleMaker 2000 act as a slide projector, playing a new
page with each button press. For example, if you are using titles to make a

live presentation, you would probably want each page to remain on the
screen as you discuss it, moving on to the next page when you are ready.
You can define a project so that it always plays manually; or you can
temporarily make a project play manually.
Making a Project Always Play Manually

To make a project always play manually, set all pages to infinite duration
using the Effects In menu (Chapter 17).
You can do this as you create the titles — make the first page infinite and
future pages will also be infinite, since new pages inherit the characteristics
of the previous page.
Or you can change all the pages in an existing project to infinite duration
by marking all pages and changing their duration. To do this, use COM-
MAND + MARK START followed by COMMAND + MARK END to mark all
pages, then change the duration to infinity, using the Effects In menu.
Hint: You can mix manual and automatic play. For example, suppose you have a
presentation and at one point, you want a series of titles to play automatically. Set the
whole project to infinite duration but set timed durations for the pages you want to
play automatically.
Notes:
• When you change the duration of all the pages, note that you cannot
change it back by using UNDO.
• Don’t press POSITION or enter any menus while all pages are marked. If
you make any changes, all marked pages will be changed!
Playing Any Project Manually

You can make a project play manually even if it has durations set by using
the arrow keys during PLAY.
Play the project normally using PLAY or COMMAND + PLAY. At any
time, press the RIGHT arrow key to flip forward to the next page. Automatic
play pauses — the page remains on the screen until you are ready to move on.
Any durations that have been set are ignored. Continue to use RIGHT arrow
to play forward manually, a page at a time. Use the LEFT arrow key to flip
back to the previous page.
To resume automatic play, press PLAY twice.
Note the difference between using PLAY or SHIFT + PLAY to skip pages
as compared to using the arrow keys: PLAY and SHIFT + PLAY flip to the
next page and continue automatic play; the arrow keys flip to the next page
and stay there, paused. Arrow keys also skip the out-effect.
The arrow keys are a very convenient way to rapidly flip through the
pages to find a particular page.
Hint: The DOWN arrow key does exactly the same thing as the RIGHT arrow
key. The UP arrow key does the same thing as the LEFT arrow. If you think of
forward and back as up and down, use the UP and DOWN keys. If you think of them
as right and left, use those keys instead.

Continuous Play (Video Billboard)

You can play all the screens in sequence, again and again, like a slide
projector with a circular tray and an automatic timer. This makes the
TitleMaker 2000 into an automatic “video billboard,” useful for point-of-
purchase display, cable television stations, hotel lobbies, bars, or any other
application that requires a running program of video titles.
To do this, use MARK START and MARK END to mark a selection of text.
Then press PLAY. The marked pages will play over and over. Any page with
infinite duration will cause display to stop at that page until PLAY is pressed.
Hint: To continuously play all the pages, hold COMMAND as you press MARK
START followed by MARK END to mark all the pages. This marks all the pages in
the project. Then press PLAY.
Warning: Don’t press POSITION or enter any menus while pages are
marked. If you make any changes, all marked pages will be changed!
Leaving Play to Edit Again

To stop playing pages, press NEW LINE/OK and the screen you were
using when you pressed PLAY (the Editing Screen or the Page Index screen)
reappears. The cursor is located on the page you were viewing.
You can also end play with the cursor located where it was before you
pressed PLAY. To do this, press UNDO instead of NEW LINE/OK.

Chapter 20 • Editing, Presenta-

tions, and Other Applications
Video titles are useful for more than just video editing. The high-
quality titles, versatile play modes, projects and 8000-character
capacity make the TitleMaker 2000 perfect for a wide variety of
applications.
Applications
Here are some of the applications for the TitleMaker 2000:
• Video editing
• Business presentations
• Live displays (Video billboard)
• Nightclubs
• Retail point-of-sale display
• Hotel and business lobbies
• Public information displays (at an airport, for instance)
• Cable television information channels
• Broadcast slate generators
• Classroom presentations
• Self-paced demos
This chapter discusses three specifically: Video editing, presentations, and

live video display (video billboard).
Video Editing
About Video Editing
Video editing translates raw camcorder footage into polished, professional
productions you’ll be proud to show. It usually involves two aspects: Remov-
ing unwanted footage and adding elements, such as titles and effects.
While film is edited by cutting and splicing lengths of film, videotape
cannot be practically spliced. So video editing is done by selective copying.
The raw footage is played by one machine and a separate VCR records the
results on a new tape. The two machines are controlled, either by hand or
automatically, to make sure the final tape contains just the scenes you want.
An editing system such as Videonics Thumbs Up is often used to control the
tape machines, making sure the correct scenes end up in the correct place.
Whether you edit manually or automatically, the techniques for adding titles
are similar.

Titles and Video Editing

Titles greatly enhance an edited video. For instance, they can be used to
help tell the story, to introduce changes of time or place, to identify people or
settings, and to add credits. The TitleMaker 2000 is the ideal companion for
editing equipment of all kinds. You can add top-quality titles as you copy or
edit your original videotapes.
How Titles are Added to a Production

Titles are never added to a tape that has already been recorded. Instead
they are added as the original tape is being copied to a new tape. The original
tape remains as it was and the titles (as well as special effects and other
modifications) are placed on the new tape along with the original footage.
This means you can use the same original tape for many different produc-
tions, with different titles added to each production.
Titles can be combined with the video or created as separate, standalone
titles.
• The most common example of titles combined with video is when they are
superimposed over video, as with subtitles or when video used as a
pattern choice. Another example is where a screen of titles fades or wipes
to the running video — video and titles are combined during the fade or
wipe.
Be sure to read Chapter 18. It tells how to superimpose titles and explains
how to make superimposed titles come and go.
• Standalone titles are independent of any video footage. They appear over
the TitleMaker 2000’s own colored or patterned backgrounds and no
video footage is involved.
Connections
To use the TitleMaker in an editing setup, simply connect it between the
VCR or camcorder that will be playing your original tapes, and the recorder,
as described in Chapters 3 and 4.
Concept
You can create a page of titles and record it immediately, then create the
next page and record that. But generally, it is more efficient to create a
sequence of pages ahead of time. As the production is recorded, you trigger
each page at the appropriate moment, displaying the page designed for that
point in the production. Blank pages are added to the sequence anywhere the
production calls for untitled video to be displayed.
If you are using an automated edit controller with a “GPI trigger” output
(such as Videonics Thumbs Up), the controller can automatically trigger each
page of titles at the right moments (as explained later).
Here are the steps for defining and using a sequence:

• View your original tape and visualize where titles will go. A “storyboard”
(diagrams on paper that show how scenes, titles, and effects unfold) is a
helpful aid.
• Design the titles and create the pages you will H G A
need, in the order they will have in the final
production. ✖
• Where scenes will play without titles, add a blank B

F
page with a plain VIDEO background. To do
this, position the cursor at the end of a page and G
press NEW PAGE to create a new, blank page. H C
Press BACKGROUND PATTERN and use the
top sub-menu to choose VIDEO.
If you know exactly when each page of titles will
be needed in the production, you can set the dura-
tion of each page and simply press PLAY and let D
the titles run. Alternatively, you can set the dura-
E
tion of all pages to be infinite and as the production
is recorded, trigger each new page as required.
Projects
The project capability is a convenient way to hold many titling jobs at
once. You can keep standard titles (such as your introductory titles, credits,
and copyright information) in project 1 and copy then to each new produc-
tion.
Triggering the Titles Manually

If your edit controller does not have a GPI output (described below), you
trigger titles manually by watching the controller and using the PLAY key to
trigger each page at the correct moment.
It is sometimes convenient to set the edit controller to pause on scenes that
require titles, or to make a scene at a time, to make it easier to be there when
a title needs to be triggered.
GPI Trigger
If your edit controller is automatic and has GPI (“General Purpose Inter-
face”) trigger, the entire process can be automated, with each page of titles
automatically triggered by the controller. A special cable is needed to connect
the GPI jacks on the two devices. Chapter 3 describes how to buy or make
one.
Here’s how to automatically trigger titles using Videonics Thumbs Up.
• First, you will need to connect the GPI jacks together using the appropriate
cable (Chapter 3).
Warning: Always turn off power before plugging anything into GPI jack.
• As you mark scenes, press the “T” button where titles are to be triggered.
You can trigger titles between scenes or anywhere in the middle of a scene.

• Set up your titles, page by page, remembering to insert a blank page with
VIDEO background anywhere you want titles to disappear.
• When Thumbs Up creates the production, it sends a GPI trigger event to
the TitleMaker at the moments you indicated. This triggers the next page
of titles, exactly as if you pressed PLAY at that instant.
• The Thumbs Up manual provides more detail.
Presentations
Whether you are trying to demonstrate, teach, or persuade, video is a very
effective medium. The built-in battery backup in TitleMaker 2000 means you
can create a set of titles at home, then carry the unit anywhere you need to
present. You can use projects to make multiple presentations on the same
trip, or to share one unit with other users.
Hints:
• Copy the demo into the Editing Screen and use it as a starting point. Find
interesting sequences and use the copy and move capabilities to move
them where you need them.
• Use “builds” to tell your story. A build is a series of pages, each adding a
point of information to the one before. There is an example in the demo. To
create a build, first create the last page — the one with all the information.
Set it to position the titles at the top of the page. Choose the cut effect as
both the Effect In and Effect Out.
Duplicate the page as many times as you have points. Delete all but the
first point from the first page. Delete all but the first two from the second
page. Continue modifying all the pages until you reach the last page
which will have all the points.
Advanced hint: Make the last point on each page (the one you will be
discussing) a different color. As each new point appears, the previous
points will be in the same color and only the newly appearing point will
use the new color.
• When your titles are complete, videotape them for future use, after the
titles have been removed from the unit. The tape is also a good safety net
— although it is unlikely the TitleMaker 2000 will lose titles, it is wise to
have a backup plan, just in case.
• When you turn off the unit, always wait until the power light is out before
you unplug the unit. This minimizes the chance of accidental loss.
• Good presentation material techniques are especially important when
using video. It is important to use large fonts. Keep the pages brief. Present
details verbally. If you have a lot of information, break it into multiple
pages.

• Include taped material where appropriate. For instance, after presenting

the reasons your company has built a new facility, you can play a tape
showing the facility. Add a blank page with plain video background at
that point in the presentation so the video can be seen. You can add titles
and effects designed to play over the video.
• Study the play modes carefully (Chapter 19) so you know how to play
pages backwards and forwards, find a page using the Page Index, etc.
• You can use a remote pushbutton to trigger titles. This is useful when you
are standing some distance from the titler. The following instructions
describe how to make a remote trigger button.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING REMOTE TRIGGER BUTTON

Tools required:
• A soldering iron and solder
• Wire cutters
• An electric drill.
Parts required:
• A 4-inch piece of 3/4-inch PVC pipe (C) and two end caps (B and E)
• 3-conductor, 22-24 gauge stranded wire cable (D)
• A “normally open momentary pushbutton switch” (A)
• A stereo 3.5-mm mini-pin plug (F)
Instructions:
Drill a 1/4-inch hole in the center of one PVC end cap (E) and a hole to match the pushbutton switch in
the other end cap (B). Feed one end of the cable through the end cap with the 1/4-inch hole (E) and strip
the ends of each wire. Tie a single knot (D) about 8 inches from the end of the wire. Slide the wire
through the PVC pipe, the nut and washer, and the other end cap (B). Solder the two wires at the
knotted end to the two poles on the switch (A). Slip the switch into the end cap and secure it using the
nut and washer.
Solder the other ends of the cable to the plug (F). Connect to the tip (G) and the base (H) of the plug.
Don’t connect anything to the middle section of the plug (X). Push the end caps in place. After testing,
you can glue the end caps using PVC cement, if you wish. Solder the wires at the other end of the cord
to the poles from the tip and base of the stereo mini-pin plug. If you’re unsure which poles are which, ask
at the store when you make the purchase. Your new remote trigger plugs into the “GPI (CONTROL)”
jack on the back of the TitleMaker 2000.
IMPORTANT! Any time you plug or unplug the GPI trigger, make sure the TitleMaker 2000 is
turned OFF. Plugging or unplugging with the unit turned on can cause the loss of your work.
Live Titles
Many of the applications listed at the start of this chapter, such as video
billboards, nightclub and restaurant uses, and in-store displays, have one
thing in common: Titles play live, rather than being recorded.
• Live presentations often rely on automatic play in which each page is
assigned a duration or uses scroll or crawl (Chapter 17).
• Continuous play (Chapter 19) makes it easy to have the program repeat
over and over again.
• Projects make it possible to store multiple “programs.” For instance, a
restaurant might have one set of titles play during lunch and switch to a
different project later in the day.
• Preview (Chapter 21) is designed for live use. Connect a small monitor to
the preview jack and the Editing Screen and Page Index will only appear
on that monitor. Anytime you edit titles, the regular output will carry
whatever video is plugged into the IN jack (without titles). The audience
will see the input video rather than watching you type! When you press
PLAY, the titles again appear on both monitors.

Chapter 21 • Preview
An optional preview monitor is useful for live titling applications,
allowing you to change titles without disrupting the live output.
About Preview
Imagine a restaurant with monitors that normally play sports videos. A
TitleMaker 2000 is used to add phone messages, menu specials, and an-
nouncements to the screens, using superimposed scrolling and crawling
titles. As dinner service begins, the manager wishes to change the specials.
Without the Preview feature, the patrons would see the titles being changed.
They would see the same thing the manager sees, including the Editing
Screen, typing in progress, etc.
Instead, the manager uses a separate monitor, connected to the PREVIEW
output. When the manager presses NEW LINE/OK, the Editing Screen ap-
pears only on the PREVIEW monitor. The normal output displays the sports
video without titles and changes can be made privately.
Once the changes are complete, the manager presses PLAY and the titles
play, as usual, on all monitors.
Using a PREVIEW Monitor

Preview is automatic. If a cable is plugged into the PREVIEW OUT jack,
TitleMaker 2000 automatically uses it, displaying the Editing Screen only on
the PREVIEW monitor. When you play titles, they are always displayed on
both screens.
Forcing Preview Mode

You can also switch Preview on and off, regardless of whether the PRE-
VIEW OUT jack is in use, by pressing COMMAND + P.

Appendix A •
Advanced Techniques, Shortcuts,
and Command Keys
Here are some hints and techniques that will become useful as you become experi-
enced with the TitleMaker 2000. When “+” appears between the names of two
buttons, press both keys at the same time.
Capacity
• The TitleMaker 2000 will hold over 8000 characters. You can check its
remaining memory capacity by pressing COMMAND + M. A number will
appear on the screen. It gives an idea of how much room you have left. The
number gets smaller as you fill memory.
• Each line can hold up to 1000 characters. It’s unlikely you would ever try
to type that many but if you do, the memory-full symbol appears to
remind you to start a new line.
• You can type as much as you like on a page. There is no fixed limit on the
number of pages or on the number of characters that can be typed on a
page. A page can contain more characters than will fit on the television
screen, if you use scroll or crawl to march the titles on and off the screen.
• Scrolls can contain up 40-60 lines per page, depending on how many
characters there are on each line. If a scroll is too long, the memory
warning will appear when you attempt to play the page.
• Text that is typed past the edges of a page will not be displayed in the
Editing Screen. The extra text is not erased. It will be displayed if you
break the line into smaller pieces or use a smaller font, size, or style.
When you play the page using the full-page scroll effect, text that is
beyond the top and bottom if the screen is displayed. When you play the
page using a crawl, all the text on the page is displayed.
• When you fill a screen with small characters, the response of the unit will
slow, taking as much as several seconds to enter a character. (The cursor
will stop blinking when the response slows and start blinking again when
the unit is ready for you to press another key.) To speed operation, break
up the text lines to reduce the number of characters on the screen at once.
• Response may also slow as you fill memory.

Erasing Memory and Resetting Unit

• You can erase everything in a project by pressing COMMAND + SHIFT +
DELETE. The trashcan symbol appears to warn you everything is about to
be erased. Press NEW LINE/OK to confirm you really want to erase
everything. Press UNDO immediately if you do not want to erase the
project.
• To completely reset the unit, erasing everything and returning the unit to
factory condition, remove the power cord and hold COMMAND + SHIFT
while you plug the unit back in. Hold the keys until the power light goes
out. Warning: This will erase all projects, all colors, etc. You cannot undo
this operation.
Moving the Cursor

• In the Editing Screen, the COMMAND and SHIFT keys modify the arrow
keys:
Modifier key LEFT or RIGHT arrow UP or DOWN arrow
SHIFT Next start or end of line Start or end of next page
COMMAND Next start or end of line Start or end of current project
COMMAND + SHIFT Next start or end of line Start of next project
• In the Page Index screen, SHIFT causes the arrow keys to move a screenful
at a time. COMMAND causes the arrow keys to move a project at a time.
COMMAND + SHIFT also moves a project at a time.
• SHIFT and COMMAND also modify the meanings of the MARK START
and MARK END keys, in both the Editing Screen and the Page Index
screens:
• SHIFT + MARK START places a mark at the start of the current page
and SHIFT + MARK END places a mark at the end of the page.
• COMMAND + MARK START places a mark at the start of the current
project and COMMAND + MARK END places a mark at the end of the
project.
Projects
• Use COMMAND + SHIFT + UP/DOWN to move to the next or previous
project.
• COMMAND + NEW PAGE, while the Page Index is on the screen, creates
a new project.
• COMMAND + SHIFT + DELETE while in the Editing Screen erases the
contents of a project.

Moving In the Color Menu

• In the bottom sub-menu (with the color palette), use SHIFT with the arrow
keys to move the highlight a screenful of bars at a time.
• In the bottom sub-
menu, use COMMAND
+ UP to move to the
first pre- defined color.
Use COM- MAND +
DOWN to move to the
first user- defined color.
• In the top sub-menu,
use SHIFT + LEFT/
RIGHT to move the
pointer faster across
the color setting bar.
• In the bottom sub-
menu, use COMMAND
+ LEFT/ RIGHT to
move the pointer to the
end of the bar.
Using the
Demo
• P r e s s DEMO to see
a demon- stration of the
major features. Any
key will stop the
demo.
• P r e s s SHIFT +
DEMO to display a
demo that minimizes
the use of English lan-
g u a g e text. This
demo is designed for
international use.
Any key will stop the
demo.
• P r e s s COMMAND
+ DEMO to see a
“locked” version of the English language demo. This demo will not stop
until COMMAND + DEMO or COMMAND + SHIFT + DEMO is pressed.
• Press COMMAND + SHIFT + DEMO to see a “locked” version of the
international demo. This demo will not stop until COMMAND + DEMO
or COMMAND + SHIFT + DEMO is pressed.
• Press COMMAND + SHIFT + COPY to copy the English language demo

into a new project.
• Press COMMAND + SHIFT + MOVE to copy the international demo into a
new project.
Play Modes
• The current project is always the one played. To play another project, use
COMMAND + SHIFT + UP/DOWN to switch projects.
• If text is marked, the PLAY key • SPACE BAR pauses playing im-
plays all the pages in the project mediately.
that include marked text. The same • While pages are playing, the PLAY
pages are repeated over and over key goes to the next page immedi-
(looped play). ately and resumes automatic play
• If no text is marked, PLAY starts from that page.
with the page that contains the cur- • Arrow keys move forward and
sor. backwards, ceasing automatic
• COMMAND + PLAY: Starts play- play. One page is displayed with
ing from the first page in project, each arrow-key-press and out-ef-
regardless of marks or cursor lo- fects are skipped.
cation.
• SHIFT + PLAY plays backwards.
Pressing SHIFT during play
switches direction of play.
Miscellaneous Hints
• You can adjust the TitleMaker 2000’s video output to compensate for a
television that is off-center. Press SHIFT + POSITION. A large rectangle is
displayed. Use the arrow keys to adjust the rectangle until it is centered
and press NEW LINE/OK.
• COMMAND + P turns Preview
mode on and off.

Appendix B • Font Listing

TitleMaker 2000 includes 92
font/size combinations with a
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ing accented and pictorial char-
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characters except some fonts which " U
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include capital letters only.
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Font Sample
TitleMaker 2000 includes 23 fonts
in four sizes (plain, doubled verti-
cally, doubled horizontally, doubled
vertically and horizontally). Here is a
sample of each font.

ACCENT + arrow keys

SPECIAL CHARACTERS ❤ ACCENT + F
✓ ACCENT + G
Refer to Chapter 6 for a complete listing, with ★ ACCENT + H
explanations. ◆ ACCENT + J
The following special characters are entered by ■ ACCENT + K
pressing ACCENT and the indicated character at ■ ACCENT + L
the same time. For instance, ACCENT + C indi-
cates you press C and ACCENT together. “+”
indicates that two keys are pressed together; you
don’t push the “+” key. Capital letters are used for ACCENTED CHARACTERS
clarity; you don’t press SHIFT unless it is indi-
cated. The accents above the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 keys are
used with other letters to make accented letters.
* Note: TitleMaker 2000 offers “curly” quotes in For instance, to type ü, you would use ACCENT +
addition to “straight” quotes. Curly quotes look 4, followed by the letter U. The capitalized version
like this: “ ” ‘ ’ , as opposed to straight quotes (Ü) would be displayed using ACCENT + 4, fol-
which look like this: " ' . It also has the “em-dash” lowed by SHIFT + U.
(—), a dash that is longer than a hyphen (-). Note
that the straight quotes in some fonts are actually In this list, “letter” means the letter you want
slightly curled due to the style used by that font’s accented.
designers.
** For the degree symbol, type ACCENT + 7
followed by SPACE.
ç ACCENT + C
Ç ACCENT + SHIFT + C
æ ACCENT + A
Æ ACCENT + SHIFT + A
œ ACCENT + O
Œ ACCENT + SHIFT + O
ø ACCENT + 0
Ø ACCENT + SHIFT + 0
ß ACCENT + S
§ ACCENT + D
« ACCENT + [
» ACCENT + ]
¡ ACCENT + 1
¿ ACCENT + /
¢ ACCENT + Q
£ ACCENT + W
¥ ACCENT + E
® ACCENT + R
™ ACCENT + T
© ACCENT + Y
° ACCENT + 7; SPACE **
• ACCENT + U
— ACCENT + – *
‘ ACCENT + ; *
’ ACCENT + ' *
“ ACCENT + , *
” ACCENT + . *
The following characters are not printed on
the keypad.

To Type: Press: Then press:

´ ACCENT + 2 SPACE
á, é, í, ó, ú ACCENT + 2 letter
Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú ACCENT + 2 SHIFT + letter
` ACCENT + 3 SPACE
à, è, ì, ò, ù ACCENT + 3 letter
À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù ACCENT + 3 SHIFT + letter
¨ ACCENT + 4 SPACE
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü ACCENT + 4 letter
Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü ACCENT + 4 SHIFT + letter
˜ ACCENT + 5 SPACE

Index
A changing 46 19 doubled fonts 48
choosing 46 menus 43 doubled size options 49
ACCENT 6 concept 45 video editing 71 doubling
ACCENT key 27 copied/moved text connecting horizontal 48
accented characters 40 video source 17 vertical 48
27, 82 copying 47 Videonics DOWN arrow 25
adding a page 32 inheriting 46 equipment 19 duration 62, 66
advanced techniques 76 characters connecting monitors 15 infinite 62
antenna 12 accented 82 connecting outputs 15 durations 9
appearing and special 82 connection diagram 14
disappearing 65 choices 43 connections 4, 11 E
applications 2, 70 clearing all 77 continuous play 69, 74 edit controller 20
arrow keys 7, 25, 43 color bars 53 CONTROL (GPI) editing 19, 70
audio 15 color control bars 53 16, 21, 72 multiple source 21
B Color menus 52 control bars 53 single-source 20
color swatch 53 copies Editing Screen
background color 52 colors 52 multiple 40 5, 25, 35
backup 73 hints 54 COPY 33, 39 editing titles 37
basic applications 2 noisy 54 copying effect speed 61
basics 4 removing 54 characteristics 47 effects 19, 60
battery backup 73 columns 26 copying between projects Effects In menu 60
block effect 50 come and go titles 65 36 Effects Out menu 60
BNC 12 COMMAND 77 copying demo 78 em-dash 28
bold 50 COMMAND + arrow keys copying pages 33 empty projects 35, 36
border box 58 25, 26, 78 copying text 39 English language demo
border color 52 COMMAND + DEMO crawl 9, 60, 62 23
border line 58 23, 78 crawl speed 61 enhancer 21
Border Style menu 58 COMMAND + M 26, 76 creating colors 53 entering text 6
borders 58 COMMAND + MARK creating projects 35 entering titles 25
removing 59 END 77 curly quotes 28 equipment 3
box 58 COMMAND + MARK cursor 5, 6, 25 erasing 26
built-in demo 23 START 77 moving 25 erasing memory 77
button, trigger 74 COMMAND + NEW PAGE wide 38 erasing projects 35
C 77 custom colors 53 extra bold 51
COMMAND + P 75, 79 cuts 60
cable COMMAND + PLAY F
GPI 22 9, 66, 78 D fade speed 61
cable TV 12 COMMAND + SHIFT 77 dash fades 60
cables 12 COMMAND + SHIFT + long 28 fat cursor 38
cabling 11 arrow keys defining colors 53 features 1
capabilities 1 26, 77, 78 DELETE 35, 38 filter effect 56
capacity 30 COMMAND + SHIFT + delete 7 FONT & SIZE menu 48
capacity, memory 76 COPY 78 DELETE key fonts 48
capitals 26 COMMAND + SHIFT + 7, 26, 32, 37 block effect 50
CAPS LOCK 6 DELETE 35, 77 deleting 26 bold 50
CAPS LOCK key 26 COMMAND + SHIFT + deleting a page 32 cartoon-style 49
cartoon-style font 49 DEMO 23, 78 deleting marked text 38 extra bold 51
centering 17 COMMAND + SHIFT + deleting marks 38 listing 80
CG DOWN 36, 66 deleting memory 77 mixed 49
definition 1 COMMAND + SHIFT + deleting projects 35 outlines 50
chain 19 MOVE 78 demo 5, 23 sample 81
changing COMMAND + SHIFT + copying 78 shadows 50
characteristics 46 UP 36, 66 copying into spacing 50
changing projects 36 command keys 76 memory 23 upper-case 49
changing titles 37 complex borders 59 international 23, 78 foreign characters 27
character generator composite 12, 15 locked 23, 78 forward 66
definition 1 composite (RCA-style) 4 using 78 full-page scroll 62
character limit 30 concept DEMO key 23, 78
character set 80 characteristics 45 description 1
characteristics 7, 45 editing connections Digital Video Mixer 20

G M palette 52 repeat play 69
pattern replace 7
General Purpose Interface major changes 37 see-through 64 replacing text 38
16, 21, 72 manual play 67 transparent 64 resetting unit 77
GPI 16, 21 MARK END 38, 43 Pattern menus 55 resolution 48
GPI trigger 72 MARK START 37, 43 patterns 55 response 76
guided tour 23 marking text 37 see-through 56 reverse 66
marks 37 transparent 56 revising titles 37
H removing 38 pause 67 RF 12
half-scroll 61 memory 40, 76 picture centering 17 RF (cable/antenna) jack
highlights 43, 52 clearing 77 pixel patterns 55 15
hints memory capacity 76 PLAY 9 RF modulator 15
1, 11, 13, 18, 19, memory full 26, 76 play 9, 66 RIGHT arrow 25
34, 38, 42, 49, 50, 51, memory-full symbol 26 PLAY key 5
53, 54, 56, 59, 62, 63, menu 7 PLAY Screen 66 S
67, 68, 69, 73, 76, 79 menu keys 7, 43 Play Screen 5 S-video 4, 12, 15
horizontal doubling 48 menus 43, 44 playing all pages 66 sample colors 52
horizontal positioning 41 merging pages 32 playing backwards 67 sample of fonts 81
horizontal slides 61 mixed fonts 49 playing continuously 69 saturation 53
hue 53 monitor 11 playing in a loop 69 SCART plugs 12
monitor input switch 15 playing manually 67 scroll 9, 60
I MOVE 33, 39 playing quickly 67 scroll capacity 76
IN and OUT markings 13 moving between projects playing some pages 67 scroll length 76
infinite duration 62, 66 36 point-of-sale display 70 scroll speed 61
inheriting moving cursor 25 POSITION key 9, 41 see-through filter 56
characteristics 46 moving pages 33 positioning text 9, 41 see-through pattern 64
input 11 moving projects 36 POWER 4, 15 shadow color 52
input connections 17 moving text 39 power 5, 14 shadows 50
input selection switch 16 moving the cursor 6 POWER button 14 sharing unit 34
input selector switch multiple power light 15 SHIFT 6, 77
monitor 16 copies 40 power supply 14, 15 SHIFT + arrow keys
VCR 16 multiple source editing presentations 70, 73 25, 26, 78
insert 7 21 preview 74, 75 SHIFT + DEMO 78
inserting a page 32
international demo 78 N PREVIEW monitor SHIFT + MARK END 77
12, 75 SHIFT + MARK START
introduction 1 naming projects 35 PREVIEW OUT 4, 75 77
navigating pages 31
J NEW LINE/OK 6
processor 21 SHIFT + PLAY 78
project SHIFT + POSITION
jacks 12 NEW LINE/OK key 26 deleting 35 17, 79
jagged 48 NEW PAGE 30 erasing 35 SHIFT key 26
jittery slides 61 NEW PAGE key 6 names 35 shortcuts 76
jobs 34 newsletter 1 project number 31 side bars 59
noisy colors 54
L project symbol 35 single-source editing 20
O projects 6, 34 sizes 48
language characters 27 copy 36 skipping pages 67
learning from demo 23 OUT jacks 15 move 36 slide 61
LEFT arrow 25 outline color 52 slide projector 67
letter color 52 outlines 50 Q slide speed 61
letterspacing 50 output 11 QuickStart 4 slides 60
lightness 53 OUTPUT monitor 12, 15 slow response 76
limit overscan 17 R smart tab 26
scroll 61
limits P rainbow patterns 55 smoothness of letters 48
rapid access solid color pattern 55
character 30 page pages 31 spacing 50
line 30 adding 32 RCA 4, 12, 15 special characters
line above 59 copying 33 record VCR 12 27, 82
line below 59 moving 33 recorder 11 speed 61, 66, 76
LINE/TUNER switch 16 Page Index 31 rectangle 17 straight quotes 28
live titles 74 PAGE INDEX key 6, 31 registration card 1 sub-menus 7, 43
locked demo 23, 78 Page Index screen 35 remote trigger button 74 superimpose 64
long dash 28 page number 31 removing borders 59 superimposing 8
long pages 30 page symbols removing colors 54 switch, trigger 74
looped play 67, 69, 74 6, 25, 31, 60 removing marks 38 switching projects 36
lower case 26 pages 6, 30 removing projects 35
rapid access 31

T W
TAB key 26 warning
television 15 memory full 40
text wide cursor 38
copying 39 wipe 61
editing 7 wipes 60
entering 6, 25 wiring 11
modifying 7
moving 39 Y
revising 37 Y/C 4, 12, 15
typing 25
text color 52
Thumbs Up 20, 22, 70
title generator
definition 1
Title Style menu 49
titler
definition 1
titles
entering 25
revising 37
typing 25
transition effects 9, 60
transition speed 61
transitions 9
transparent effect 56
transparent pattern 64
trigger 72
trigger switch 74
troubleshooting hints 18
TUNER/LINE switch 16
typing text 6
typing titles 25
U
UNDO 7, 38
UNDO key 37
UP arrow 25
upper case 26
upper-case-only fonts 49
user colors 52, 53
using demo 23
using menus 43, 44
V
VCR 11
vertical doubling 48
vertical interval time code
20
vertical positioning 41
vertical slides 61
vibrating slides 61
video billboard 69
video editing 19, 70
VIDEO OUT 17
VIDEO patterns 55
video processor 21
video source 11
connecting 17
videonics equipment
connections 19
viewing pages 35
viewing projects 35
VITC 20

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TM-2000 Video TitleMaker 2000 Instruction Manual • MANL-0526-02 • © 1994 Videonics,

Videonics, Inc., 1370 Dell Avenue, Campbell, CA 95008 USA; 408-866-8300

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VIDEONICS VIDEO TITLEMAKER 2000

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IN R L V S OUT R L V S PREVIEW CONTROL POWER

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What is a Video Titler?

What is the TitleMaker 2000?

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AUDIO VIDEO AUDIO VIDEO

IN R L V S OUT R L V S PREVIEW CONTROL POWER

Typical TitleMaker 2000 connection

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The Editing Screen and the Play Screen

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Moving the Cursor

Editing the Text

Using Menus to Change

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• Add borders and change their type, color, and pattern.

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Making Titles Come and Go

Positioning Text on the Line

Abelard Abelard Abelard

Positioning Text on the Page

Transitions, Durations, Scroll, and Crawl

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Playing the Pages

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What You’ll Need

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B An OUTPUT monitor. The monitor will be connected to a recording VCR

Types of Input and Output Jacks

∂ Composite (RCA-style) video and audio

Types of Cables Used with the TitleMaker 2000.

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AUDIO VIDEO AUDIO VIDEO

IN R L V S OUT R L V S PREVIEW CONTROL POWER

Turning Power On and Off: Video Pass-Through

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Connecting Outputs and Monitors

AUDIO VIDEO AUDIO VIDEO AUDIO VIDEO

OUT R L V S OUT R L V S OUT R L V S

OUT OUT OUT

Example Output Connections

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AUDIO IN or to an external amplifier and speakers.