Animations

[Peter5CF1]

Dear Friends

Okay I am making slow progress on premiere elements and this morning I am trying to understand how to apply the animations to the text. As you see from the screen shot I have an animation picked for the text I am creating but the apply option does not seem to highlight. I would like to use at least a few of the many options available am=nd am perplexed as to what I am doing wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Steve Grisetti]

A limitation of these animations is that can only be applied to single-lines of text. You've got a two-line text block selected.

[Peter5CF1]

Dear Steve

Okay so is there something else I can use to apply a special effect to a few lines of text?

 Thanks for your help

Peter

[Steve Grisetti]

What type of animation are you trying to create, Peter?

If you're just trying to create rolling or crawling text, that can be pretty easily done.

[Peter5CF1]

Dear Steve

In the past I used a program that would swing the text in, expand it or sometimes scroll it up like a window shade and create a light grey background to the block so it would contrast against the background of the video. Premiere Elements seems much more sophisticated with many more options but I am not too sure how to access anything beyond simply the default text, and default transistion between clips. Thank you for helping me along step by step. I do appreciate the help.

Peter