Rich Text seems to realign itself to left

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Hello all. I am relatively new to all this and have been enjoying playing with shotcut. What a great resource!

I’ve stumbled over something that I just can’t seem to figure out or find an answer for, so I really hope someone can help and it’s just me being dumb and missign something simple.

I ma tryingot add text centrally at the bottom of the video. It seems OK, but then when I playback to view changes, (or export and playback) the video, the text realigns to the left.

I have triedvarious things such as updatingot latest shotcut version, adding rich text to a new video layer with a colour block instead of over the video footage layer.

If anyone can show me what i am doing wrong, i’d be so grateful/ Here is a link to a screenshot. Left shows screen while editinghe filter. Right shows what the result is onc I have clicked of the filter editing. As you can see, it hops back to the left, and this is what is exported.

2560×1017 310 KB

Many thanks all.

Becky

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Hi @Bec

See this discussion:

Maybe your system display scale is not an integer value (100, 200, or 300%)

Example on how to set the display scale in Windows

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Hi. Thank you so very much for your help, and for the link tothe other post which is exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately, mine is set to 100%, so it sounds like I might be out of luck this time as it seems there is no fix.

Ah well. Time for a time-consuming workaround I reckon!

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You could use the Text: Simple filter. It would work perfectly for what you’re trying to do in your project.

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It does indeed! I did try this yesterday (not usingthe colour block layer), and it didn’t work for me (background transparency or something maybe?), but since I have discovered the colour block, that works perfectly along with the simple text. Thank you so very much.

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You’re welcome.

In Text: Simple, with the Background setting you can also create a color block around the text.
It is set to transparent by default (Alpha channel : 0) but you can set it to any color and increase the Padding to make the block bigger.

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What version are you using? You can find the version number by clicking Help, then About Shotcut.

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Latest version. (I updated before I posted this) as mentione in the original post, but my typing was so bad I wouldn’t besurpried if you missed it. :slight_smile:

It’s OK though - I have been able to achieve what I wanted with simple text and a colour block.

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Just to clarify: I’m using the latest version is not accurate enough.
For example, at the moment the latest stable version is 22.06.23.
But there is also a newer version available for testing: v22.09 BETA

There are many differences between these two versions, That’s why it is important to specify what version number you are using.

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I was using the latest that isn’t beta - 22.06.23 if it helps anyone else. But you already helped me and it’s all good so, thank you very much. :slight_smile:

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