Insert Text from a Document

Randini wrote on 6/25/2014, 7:08 PM
I'm showing a video of text from a Word.doc that someone read. When I copy and past it into Video Media Generator the paragraph goes in ALL IN ONE LINE. Then I have to painstakingly format. Is there a way to have the words paste into the generator where it multiple lines using a margin?

Example:

“It shall even be as when a hungry one dreams,
and behold, he eats, but he awakes and his soul
is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams ect….

Thank you,
Randini

Comments

VMP wrote on 6/25/2014, 7:16 PM
Have you tried pasting the text in notepad then pasting it Vegas?
That resets the Word.doc formatting.

VMP
videoITguy wrote on 6/25/2014, 7:18 PM
this issue comes up quite frequently - not just about Vegas app but about many different character value transfer combinations in the Windows world..

study this diaglogue : http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=885400

Basically it is a fairly complicated issue that you are dealing with - although your solutions will actually be easy.
The problems are about different Windows iterations, different apps and character handling, including line breaks, and other unseen coding.
Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 6/25/2014, 7:20 PM
(Using the Default text generator)
As long as the carriage returns are placed in the right place in Word, then you can copy over the text as is, or I tend to use the credit roll to do that sort of text
john_dennis wrote on 6/25/2014, 7:35 PM
If you want the actual look of the Word document:

From Word, print to Adobe PDF

In Adobe Acrobat (the full application, not the Reader), save as a .PNG file

Open the .PNG in your favorite photo editor and resample the .PNG to your Vegas project width, i.e.1920 pixels and save as .PNG

Insert the width adjusted .PNG on to the Vegas timeline

Use Pan/Crop to scroll down the page

It's somewhat circuitous but the results are about as faithful to the original document as it can be with the video pixel dimensions.
Chienworks wrote on 6/25/2014, 8:40 PM
If you don't have the full Adobe Acrobat, simply arrange the document the way you want it on the screen and press PrtSc. You can then paste into any image editor, crop as necessary, and save it as whatever file type you like. You may have to do this a couple times per page, but it's a whole lot faster and cheaper than going through PDF into Acrobat.
Randini wrote on 6/25/2014, 8:40 PM
VMP, when I tried pasting from Word.doc into notepad it paste it in one line just as it does in Media Generator.

Randini wrote on 6/25/2014, 8:45 PM
Thank you Tguy for that link thread! If I go into my Word.doc and create shift/enter after every line it paste into Vegas Legacy text perfectly!

Cheers.
Randini
VMP wrote on 6/25/2014, 8:50 PM
How does the text look like that is in one line?

I have just pasted the text:
“It shall even be as when a hungry one dreams,
and behold, he eats, but he awakes and his soul
is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams ect…

in Video Media Generators - Sony Titles & Text
and it looks just like above.

Can you paste the one line text here?

VMP
john_dennis wrote on 6/25/2014, 10:42 PM
"[I]...it's a whole lot faster and cheaper than going through PDF into Acrobat.[/I]"

Acrobat is a sunk cost to me. It's everywhere I go. With high resolution screens these days, PrtScrn will produce a photo file good enough for video. Agreed, it's an unnecessary route to get high precision in character formation just to down-sample to video pixel dimensions. When one has a hammer in their hand they see a lot more nails. The workflow can be invaluable for working in everyday office applications and preparing files for very large printed output.
PeterDuke wrote on 6/25/2014, 11:03 PM
"From Word, print to Adobe PDF

In Adobe Acrobat (the full application, not the Reader), save as a .PNG file"

If you don't have Acrobat, you could try "PDF to JPG Converter"

http://www.pdftojpgconverter.com

It can save to several image formats other than JPG.
Steve Mann wrote on 6/25/2014, 11:12 PM
The easiest solution is to simply CTRL-C copy the text in Word, and CTRL-V paste it into Notepad or other text editor to strip it of the Word formatting codes. Then in Notepad, CTRL-A to select everything and in Vegas, CTRL-V to paste.
Randini wrote on 6/26/2014, 4:27 AM
VMP,

It looks just like this:

“It shall even be as when a hungry one dreams, and behold, he eats, but he awakes and his soul is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams,
VMP wrote on 6/26/2014, 8:36 AM
Randini,

Yes that is indeed too long.
It's the same with subtitles. you have to hit enter/ shift-enter to split them to sperate lines. I do this in notepad. Always first paste it in note pad to reset the formatting.

VMP
rraud wrote on 6/26/2014, 9:34 AM
The media generator will not 'word wrap' automatically but will 'read' paragraphs, so each line would need to be in that format.
As I recall, (or I may be mistaken) but VASST had a script or utility that would format a word document for use video media generator
TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/26/2014, 6:45 PM
What I've always done (and I've done this a lot with long lists of credits and paragraphs of text) is paste a line in to Vegas's text I'm using. Then I'd get it the size & font I want. Then I'd look and see where it cuts off and I want the break. Then I go in to my word/text/whatever doc and hit ENTER at that location and keep going down the document so it's reasonably lined up.

Works pretty good and it takes less time thinking how to do it automatically.