pinnacle 12 scrolling text

[anon125]

how do i make the text scroll so it never actually covers the top of the screen?
or how do i get the text to scroll up but NOT a picture on the screen?
i am trying to make the text stay in a frame that is a picture with clear inside
thanks all

[poisondeathray]

I don't use Pinnacle, but normally you would use 3 video tracks:

top track: screen overlay png (center section with alpha channel, so it's "transparent")
middle track: animated text layer
bottom track: main video

So the screen overlay png "covers up" the animated text, because it's on top of the layer stack

But according to this, there are only 2 tracks in pinnacle 12
http://forum.camcorderinfo.com/bbs/archive/index.php/t-142555.html

A workaround would be to render the middle and bottom track as a lossless intermediate, reimport that video into a new project on the bottom track, place the screen overlay png on the top track


EDIT: if you don't have a "main" video you can do this with 2 tracks

[anon125]

Thanks very much- i will give it a try

EDIT it worked