Add Text Tool to Timeline Notes
Posted: 12 Aug 2018, 17:19
I am requesting that the Text Tool be added to Timeline Notes so notes may be typed as well as hand-written notes.
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Re: Add Text Tool to Timeline Notes
Posted: 13 Aug 2018, 10:11
But please don't abandon handwritten notes because that's the best way to annotate accents, changing volume of voiceover, shifting moods.... on and on, even little drawings of facial expressions and squiggly lines and other symbols to annotate music.
Re: Add Text Tool to Timeline Notes
Posted: 13 Aug 2018, 18:19
Oh, yes, certainly ! I did not mean replace the hand written notes , but rather add the Text tool to augment the Timeline Notes .Paul Fierlinger wrote: ↑13 Aug 2018, 10:11 But please don't abandon handwritten notes because that's the best way to annotate accents, changing volume of voiceover, shifting moods.... on and on, even little drawings of facial expressions and squiggly lines and other symbols to annotate music.
Re: Add Text Tool to Timeline Notes
Posted: 13 Aug 2018, 18:42
So I'm curious; what's it for? to make general notes between collaborators when projects are shared? Actually I do that too, for instance to warn Sandra that some images are using tracker. it makes sense
Re: Add Text Tool to Timeline Notes
Posted: 16 Aug 2018, 07:17
A text tool in the notes area is considered and in our To-Do List.
In the meantime, we made a small George script to add some text in the notes area:
The text will be added as pixels and handled as the usual notes.
"Notes 3 lines" will allow you to write 3 lines of text. But 3 lines only.
If you make a selection of one or several images, your text will fit the selection.
In the meantime, we made a small George script to add some text in the notes area:
The text will be added as pixels and handled as the usual notes.
- type your text.png (2.49 KiB) Viewed 21413 times
"Notes 3 lines" will allow you to write 3 lines of text. But 3 lines only.
- 3 lines.png (3.13 KiB) Viewed 21413 times
If you make a selection of one or several images, your text will fit the selection.
- my selection.png (3.41 KiB) Viewed 21413 times
Re: Add Text Tool to Timeline Notes
Posted: 16 Aug 2018, 12:31
Yes, exactly that kind of thing is what I would use it for . Lately I've been working on a project remotely where the director sends me notes via email and rather than keep his emails open and keep referring back to the emails I would like to copy & paste his notes into the Timeline with a text tool .Paul Fierlinger wrote: ↑13 Aug 2018, 18:42 So I'm curious; what's it for? to make general notes between collaborators when projects are shared? Actually I do that too, for instance to warn Sandra that some images are using tracker. it makes sense
Re: Add Text Tool to Timeline Notes
Posted: 16 Aug 2018, 12:32
Thank you !melanie wrote: ↑16 Aug 2018, 07:17 A text tool in the notes area is considered and in our To-Do List.
In the meantime, we made a small George script to add some text in the notes area:
Notes Text.tvpx
The text will be added as pixels and handled as the usual notes.
type your text.png
"Notes 3 lines" will allow you to write 3 lines of text. But 3 lines only.
3 lines.png
If you make a selection of one or several images, your text will fit the selection.
my selection.png
Is it possible to make the text size smaller ?
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Re: Add Text Tool to Timeline Notes
Posted: 16 Aug 2018, 18:11
Thanks, Melanie!
Right Click on the icon
Hit the drop down menu on line zero and select "Embedded George Script"
You can change the font size here
OR, the following change will make the tool a bit more flexible I think. This will make it so the text tool is not changed to the parameters specified in the original code. So the settings you had before you activated the function will persist.
It even retains many of the parameters from the text tool like border, glow, and angle.
Hey, D.T! This worked for me.
Right Click on the icon
Hit the drop down menu on line zero and select "Embedded George Script"
You can change the font size here
OR, the following change will make the tool a bit more flexible I think. This will make it so the text tool is not changed to the parameters specified in the original code. So the settings you had before you activated the function will persist.
It even retains many of the parameters from the text tool like border, glow, and angle.
Re: Add Text Tool to Timeline Notes
Posted: 16 Aug 2018, 22:31
Thank you , kind sir !
It is true that in almost all cases "anything is possible in TVPaint" , so thanks for affirming that .
It is true that in almost all cases "anything is possible in TVPaint" , so thanks for affirming that .