Using upper AND lower case fonts in iMoive - How?

I love all of my apple products, but this is so incredibly lame. writing in all caps is no way to communicate. i've wasted a good amount of time on something so simple and still haven't figured this out....weak!

I wish it was only as bad as that. It took more than an engineer with poor judgement or lack of awareness to do this. It also took a good size fail in the quality assurance process.

That is best case.

Could it be that lengthy consideration of this issue yielded a decision to use only caps on titles because the experts in charge of such things "know" that is the best way to make titles for videos? That would be worse.

It is pretty unbelievable no matter what and part of a growing trend that is deeply disturbing to me.

I was using iMovie today for the first time in a very long while (years) and noticed this problem as well.

The quickest workaround solution I found on my mac mini was as follows (sounds long, but only takes a minute):

Drag the Title box that has the effect you desire into your timeline as usual.

Open the TextEdit app separately. Type the word (or words) you want in lowercase (or upper/lower combination) in this app.

Then "cut" the text from the TextEdit app.

Return to iMovie app. Click on the all Cap text default in your editing panel until it highlights all the words. Then "paste" right over that. (The text you typed into the TextEdit app and then cut should paste directly here and eliminate the ALL CAPS default text simultaneously).

You should also be able to revise the new text as desired (upper or lower, change font, etc.).

I imagine there are other apps or areas you could type, cut and paste from, but the TextEdit app on my mac mini was the first one I tried and it worked ok.

Hope that helps.

Good Luck.

Is there a way to use the reveal style to get three lines in a title with different font sizes? I could not figure that one out.

Does this provide a way to make a title with three lines, each with different font-sizes?

Caps lock off?

Sorry if my suggestion was trivial but its an easy mistake to make and one that I have made many times.

Quite a number of the title styles are only in capitals and you can't change these to lower case but most allow upper and lower case. Can you not type lower case on any title? I have never before heard of such a problem.

Geoff.

I was assuming you were using iMovie 10 since you are running Mavericks and mention "lots of changes" but you also mention iMovie '11 which is version 9 but which has not changed much such the previous version.

I have never before heard of this problem with either version though.

Geoff.

i have the same problem. driving me crazy.

the caps look were off for sure, tried with several fonts, tried with the right click menu "transformations". the problem is still there.

i was trying to use the standard title. i could write in lowercase in other types of titles, but not the "standard" title.

please someone help here.

The title style called "Standard" is in all upper case by design. (So are all the titles which display in the title viewer as "TITLE TEXT".)

Why not just use another title style which does allow lower case such as "Reveal"?

Geoff.

I've tried and there will be black shadows on the corner of the titles.

i'm using "expand" at the moment, however, when the title expands, the lenth of a line will be extended, so the text will change to fit in the size of default text frame. (try with a sentence takes two line and you'll see)

help! is there any way that i could add a text frame or so?

I'm not sure I understand what you want. Is it that you have a long title and text gets too small and you'd rather have multiple lines?

You could use one with a subtitle

If you don't mind having static text (no animation) you could use a basic one like "Upper" or "Centred". These offer maximum choice over fonts and you can use the return key to do do rudimentary formatting by choosing where you want to start a new line.

Geoff.

thanks for you patient and apology for my poor english skill.

at the moment i do need animation in the first palce, the thing is, my "title" is a sentence, and it will automanticaly take two line if i select the font size to 80, when i was applying the "expand" title style, in the beginning of the animation, it was fine, however, when it goes on expanding, the words in one line takes onger than before so some words were moved to the second line.

please refer to the images, first one was the beginning of expanding animation, the second one is what it is changed like ("40" was moved all of a sudden to the second line).

thanks.