Introduction
The Rich Text filter lets you format text (more flexible than Text: Simple) and automatically wraps lines within the rectangle (unlike Text: Simple). To get started after adding the filter simply enter the text in the rectangle that appears on top of the video preview area. The text and rectangle are only editable when the play head is over the selected clip when using the Timeline. Then, format the text using the floating toolbar along the top of the rectangle. First, you must select some text as shown in the screenshot above.
Toolbar
Each icon on the toolbar has a tool tip when you hover your mouse over it for one second:
Opens a menu with less commonly used functions explained below.
(Align)
Sometimes, you want to get the toolbar out of the way of your work. So, you can collapse it:
And click again to restore it.
You can right-click the selected text to open a menu of things to do with editing the text:
These are explained below.
Toolbar Menu
- Use File > Open… to open a file you created with Save As…. The text you enter is saved inside of the project automatically, but maybe you want to save it to use in another clip or project.
- Use File > Save As… to save it as rich text in a subset of the older HTML 4 and CSS standards or as plain text in a
.txtfile. Most people should not attempt to write the HTML to be included by this filter. This is not a full browser engine. - Edit
- Undo
- Redo
- Cut - Copy the selected text to the system clipboard and remove it.
- Copy - Copy the selected text to the clipboard.
- Paste - Paste text (with formatting if available) from the clipboard.
- Paste Text Only is a special version of paste that does not include formatting information. If you have copied text from a word processor or web page, sometimes the formatting does not paste nicely into Shotcut, or you simply do not care about the original formatting.
- Select All
- Insert Table You can even insert a table with or without lines. This can be useful for making columns of text, but the formatting of the table such as line style, padding, and cell background color is not available.
Parameters
- Preset contains a number of size and animation presents. You can also save your own as well as remove one you saved.
- Position
- Background Size - You can change the size of the text rectangle and move it using either these numeric fields or by dragging the handles of the rectangle on the video preview.
- Text size is not editable. These are handy for your reference, and you can select the values to copy them to the clipboard.
- Background color - You can change the background color of the rectangle as well as make it translucent (change Alpha or Opacity inside the color dialog).
- Overflow controls what happens when there is more text than fits into the rectangle.
- Automatic
- Visible - The text continues on below the rectangle.
- Hidden - The text outside of the rectangle is clipped.
- Load Keyframes from Motion Tracker applies the motion tracking data to the rectangle position and optionally size as well.
