feature of QuickShow and also, we will do little more than that
Welcome QuickShow chapter 4 tutorial on QuickText. Here we are gonna learn about the QuickText
The QuickText tool in QuickShow is found down here, in an among this area, that we call
the quick tools. It's the first tool, because we expect it,
it would be the most used of all the quick tools.
to get to the QuickText tool, all you have to do, is click on the tab here, that says
QuickText. That's when you see this area here, this is
the QuickText area. All of the quick tools share a very similar
philosophy. In a kind of a step one, step two, step three
approach. The first step is in the QuickText.
To enter the text that you want to see. So for example we'll just put in some example
text right here. So you just enter some text
select a color that you want, select from one of the many built-in effects
that are possible here. For example this one.
if we want to see that bigger, we just click on the button here that says bigger.
Click that couple times, until you see its getting bigger.
If we want that to scroll faster, we click on this button here that says faster,
and just like the other button, we can click it.
So in the step one, step two, step three philosophy, the first step is to enter your text and select
an appearance of the text. The appearances having to do with the color,
and the font and the size. Step two is selecting an effect
what you want to see applied to that text. In step three, could be to show it now.
For example if I press the show it now button, it will show up on the laser.
This button over here allows us to control where we show it.
Since QuickShow supports up to thirty separate zones,
would you could do, is show this text in different zones that you already been set up.
If you gone through the projection zones set up of QuickShow, you notice that you can
set up various zones in here. And so QuickShow will remember which zones
you've set up and which zones you have not. Once you've done that, you can select which
zone to send it to - using this area here. So for example now, you could see that the laser
output is happening, kind of an upper left-hand corner of the screen, that's what I've set
up my zone five for secondary graphics. I can also project this over the heads of
the audience, in which case you see that the appearance takes little bit of a different
shape here in the preview window. Or normaly we would just send that to the scanner
one main zone. So now, what you notice here, is that we have
a variety of effects here. And when you first install QuickShow, it will make it, so that you
have to move the mouse over each one of the effects to see what it shows.
We can also right click on any of these and select preview all.
In which case, we will be able to see all of the effects refresh at the same time.
But this is something that I like to do when I first start up QuickShow,
and once you've done this, QuickShow will remember that setting. So you will never have to do
that again, subsequent times that you start QuickShow.
One of the things that you'll notice is, that there are a lot of effects in this list here.
Many more that can fit in a single view of this monitor.
So this scrollbar down here, allows us to see more effects and so forth.
You can see the different types of effects that we have to offer.
And there is another thing you'll notice which is this:
Some of the effects have the ability for you to select the color here
and some of the effects do not. Like this one here, which has a very complex
color running through it. Same way with this one. Has a kind of a rainbow
appearance of the colors. Well in the case of these, the colors for
this type of effect is not defined in the color area here, but rather defined by an embedded
portion of the text effect itself. And to get to that embedded portion, all we
have to do is, click on this. And it will take us to the area of the text
effect that is applying the color. From there what we can do, is we can change
the colors, for example maybe I want it to be - instead
of a purple and white - I want it to be a purple and blue.
So now you can see that we can affect those colors.
The same with this kind of ocean affect right here,
what I can do is, choose different colors entirely. - Just like that -
This one here, we can put some different color on there,
- just like that - So basically what we have again, is a kind
of a step one, step two, step three approach. Step one is to specify your text and the color
you want and the size you want.
Step two is to select an effect that you want to applied to that text.
Step three could be to show it now or could also be - once we have this looking the way
we want - we can drag and drop this to a cue, just like that, and it's there anytime we need it.
If we select that. It will be started.
And can also turned that off as usual. One of the things that I haven't covered yet
is the fonts. Each one of these, not only has an effect
built into it, but a font that is already preselected for that effect as well.
Most of these have a standard aerial type of outline font,
some of them have a laser style stick font like this.
And you can always select a font, and applied a font to any one of these.
So for example I select this ocean, which has a kind of a arounded outline font by default.
You just click on this font button here, you'll be able to either choose a separate
TrueType font - Dor example maybe we want to use something
like this - with serifs - or we can choose a laser specific font.
Loaded laser font down here. In which case you could use different fonts.
Stick font is a very kind of low point font. So that might be a good choice there.
Once again after you have done that, you can come in here, make it bigger or smaller as needed.
Ss that's how you select the fonts and that could be done on any one of these
effects. Just select new font
for example load a laser font, I can choose architect font that's pretty interesting one
as well. Make that a bit bigger.
Now all of these effects actually are made up of something more complex. These are really
quick effects, that we can apply to some quick text - just like this -
it just makes it very easy to use and to get some text up on the screen very quickly.
But all these are really based on something that you can really do a lot more complicated
yourself and and build on this. So for example, for this one here perspective
scroll, I can edit that by either clicking this button
right here. Or if I right-click I can select, edit item.
And we take a look at what that is, this is made up of the advanced text editor here.
We can add to that, for example what I can do is, come over here and come into a character
effect. And add for example oscillating rotation about
Z.And so now that will change this effect right here. If I click okay, then that effect becomes changed
forever. Another thing we can do is, completely add
our own new effect. You can add your own new effect based on any
one of these effects or even based on nothing. For example if I click here and right-click
and say: Add a new item.
What it will do is, all will come up to this text effect editor here.
In which case that I can choose a new font if I want to,
I can apply a color effect over the whole thing.
I can come over here and apply character effect like this.
And I can make my own new effect just like this.
Click okay. And there is my new effect.
Now my new effect doesn't have a name. If I right-click and say rename item, then
I can give this a name - just like that.
So the QuickText allows you to enter in some text,
choose a color, choose a size.
If you want to, you can change the font, choose an effect
and very quickly put text anywhere instantly, to any zone you want.
We´re simply drag and drop that to a cue, for use and calling up later on.
So that's really the extent of QuickText and also advanced text.
You can also get to the advanced text editor, by,
what we can do is, we can right click and say, edit text, in which case this will come up
to the advanced text editor. If we want to create a brand-new item, we can
just click into an empty cue. Click the right mouse button and say, create
new text. It will come up with a blank text editor like
that. Or if we ever want to just simply edit this,
In the for example, here says Bill is great maybe we have a new
guy whose party it is tonight and in his name is George and we want to do, George is Great.
So to edit this, all you do, to create the text what I do, is to drag-and-drop
it up into a cue like that. If we wanna edit this text all we need to
do is, drag-and-drop it down onto this area here.
Normaly what we do is drag-and-drop this to the tab itself, but you do not really have
to be that precise. What you'll notice is that when I drag-and-drop
this downward, we had these black flashing arrows on the left hand side.
Those black flashing arrows are trying to tell us that, that is the item where this
event will go. And it will be just dropped in there.
So if I just release the mouse button there - like this -
It will automatically load that in. In which case I can edit it,
for example, now its George's great and drag-and-drop this
back up into a cue. So its very easy to create new text with quick
text. And very easy to edit existing text items,
just by dragging and dropping him down into the area here.
and it will get loaded - just like that.
So that's how you create new text items and edit existing text items.