--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Hullfish <Steve@...> wrote:

>
> Is the little red ANIMATION film strip button active in the top

left hand

> corner of the titler window? Turn that off and they¹ll be static.
>
> If you created your template with it on, then they would all

default to

> animation.
>

Just for the record, this is incorrect. The red animation film
strip button puts you into a mode whereby you can create animated
keyframes by manipulating objects in the Marquee monitor, or in the
property panes. If you create a static title, turn that button on,
don't change anything, and save, your title will still be static.

You can also create animations without the red animation button by
creating/manipulating keyframes on properties in the Marquee
timeline. In this case you can have an animated title with the red
button OFF.

In short, that button is not an indicator light, but rather a mode
button.

Regarding the original question: how do you tell if it's animated
before saving out - that is somewhat hard. You can look over all
the graphs in the timeline, but that is time consuming. You can
peek into the saved .mqp file, but you'd have to know what to look
for. You could create a style based on an object and see if the
resulting style is blue or orange dot - that will give you a very
good clue, but is not fool proof.

Remember when you use Autotitler you are creating multiple titles
rather than one. When doing a save all to bin, it can appear to be
rendering animations, when in reality it is rendering multiple
titles. HD titles and titles with soft shadows or tons of objects
will take longer to render as well.

Hope this helps.
--Tina van Roggen