Thank you JOOM for the reply and link. That looks just like what I need. Tried to download it, and every anti-virus I have went nuts! Do you have it installed? Thanks again. Cin

Hi OMG,

Yes, it's one that I have installed. I didn't get any red flags when I scanned it with Eset's NOD32 and Norton, but a lot of these free apps now have extra things in them to try to sell other products.

If I get a really nasty hit during a virus scan I on an application I just delete it and don't use it, otherwise I just make sure I do custom installs where applicable and uncheck anything extra.

By the way, this isn't the easiest Karoake creation system I've ever used, but it does work well...

It's a lot easier to do with the "placement" tab on a normal static text event than to try using the 'scroll". Type all your text in one long line as you have in a plain text event. Click on the Placement tab and drag the text event all the way off the right edge of the screen. Add a keyframe at the end of the song, and in that keyframe drag the text all the way off the left edge. The text will now scroll smoothly from right to left as the song plays.

You can add spaces for timing, or better yet, add keyframes for each phrase and adjust the position of the text to match. You could even have it pause for each frame, then quickly 'slide over' to the next by adding Hold keyframes.

In the past, I've done just what Chienworks described. It worked like a charm.

Thanks Kelly, that's a whole lot easier than that cluster 'mess' I was embarking on! ;) Should have figured it out on my own, but I guess I just like to make things hard sometimes! Thanks again. Cin

Well, one would think that something called "scrolling text" would make it easy to, well, scroll text! Alas, it isn't so.

Chienworks,
Reads like you could do us a Text-Scrolling Tutorial....
If your technique works with a song, presumably it will work with any text-time event - I must try it!
However, I wonder if it works vertically, as well?
Don't see why not - I must try that too!
"Rolling Credit" does have some nice touches, like Add a line (Insert), but as with much software you do have to work hard to achieve what should be quite simple.

I am suspicious of free software - and would like to get everything I can from that bought e.g. from Sony. I guess most people only use maybe 60 - 70-% of a program's power . . . .

Almost anything you can think of can be done manually in MS, just takes a little time and work.

The reason I mentioned Karaoke creation software (not necessarily free, that was just one example) is that if you're going to do much of that kind of work it really simplifies things.

In most of those programs, not only can you time words to the music and beat by simply clicking a key like the spacebar, but they also highlight the words for you in time to the intended meter of the track.

But if all you intend to do is just one video, with the text somewhere on screen at approximately the right time in the song, then it's probably not worth the time to install/learn another piece of software and MS would be fine...