Sorry I missed your post!

I've tried right now and it works perfectly, thank you!

I'll try using my ~/.fonts directory instead because it's more practical, I guess it's the same.

Thank you all again. Please keep cin going, it's great software _/\_

I pasted my fonts directly into Cin's default folder before updating its fonts.scale using mkfontscale. Sadly, it doesn't work for Montserrat. Only the Regular, Light and Extrabold variants of it show in the Titler dropdown, and the Regular one still doesn't handle italics correctly.

So the solution I found to work, because there are Montserrat fonts all over my Redhat O/S and it looks like the order that Cinelerra finds them makes a difference and you are not seeing the Cin folder ones, is as follows (there are other ways too):

• I downloaded the juliet-montserrat ttf files (there were 18) just to get a known set to the Cinelerra bin/plugins/fonts directory and ran mkfontscale there.
• Before starting Cinelerra, I wanted to make sure I was using ONLY the Cinelerra fonts so that the ones I just put in Cinelerra did not get pushed out by another set.  Therefore at the command prompt, type in:                                         export BC_FONT_PATH=:/yourcinelerrapath/bin/plugins/fonts
• Note that the : in the above makes it so no fonts are found, then add Cin's.
• Now you should see in the Titler, a total of 8 Montserrat fonts available and note that they are in lower case! See the attached screenshot.
• Why aren't there 18, you ask?  Well, the way that Cinelerra works is that the Italic and Bold do not show up because you use the checkbox to get to them.

Hope this additional information is clear enough and helps to resolve your missing fonts showing up.  I guess I should attempt to explain a little of this in the manual.

Oops, the screenshot does not keep the font set up, but anyway, it shows:

montserrat (misc)

montserrat black

montserrat extrabold

montserrat extralight

montserrat light

montserrat medium

montserrat semibold

montserrat thin

I think I can make the same movements using the drag in the Titler plugin, too, since it is keyframable.

It is better not because also the text is keyframable. So when you change the text inside Titler plugin, after copy/past or from Clip bin (if you saved your template), only that keyframe will be affected. It is better that Title and Position were in different tools, like you did with PNG and Autos.

Also, maybe I can change the background color using the Sketcher plugin, to avoid having to create separate PNGs and to be able to try more colors quickly.

To make Cinelerra-GG tutorial with subtitle I create the yellow full rectangle with sketcher but it is not easy to do. Remember that Sketcher plugin has not scale function like mask. So you must create a kind of library of shape/size/colour. To do that click on "Preset Edit" icon (cog icon in SUV theme), and you can Save or Apply your preset.

But you can see by yourself. ;-)

I'd probably use more keyframes. Sure it's not ideal for complicated movements but it can be just enough for simple animations. I think I can make the same movements using the drag in the Titler plugin, too, since it is keyframable.

I'll experiment with it.

Also, maybe I can change the background color using the Sketcher plugin, to avoid having to create separate PNGs and to be able to try more colors quickly. It would be great to have a "bg color" option in the Titler itself though...

Thank you.

Also, thank you for your very well made videos in Italian, I was able to learn how to use the program pretty quickly by watching them _/\_

"Do you see the problem now?"

Yes, you are right.

You can move it using the Projector autos, but then the mask will move along with it, and so become uneffective.

Do you see the problem now? ;)

That's why I've tried redirecting, but this won't help, because again it is done via a plugin, so it will be drawn at the same  point in the pipeline (which is called "the temporary", if I've understood that section of the manual).

No, using the keyframes' plugin the interpolation is simply linear and you cannot intervene further. But using Title plugin in a dedicated track, it can be moved both with its own keyframes and/or with autos camera/projector curves (and you can also add the Rotation plugin).