Text Overlay Help Immediately

This is what is in my script:

EXT. FIRE - NIGHT with VIDEO EDITS AND SCREENSHOTS

@overlay 6176605541302272_VIDEO EDITS AND SCREENSHOTS shifts to 323 -44 in zone 1
@overlay 6176605541302272_VIDEO EDITS AND SCREENSHOTS scales to 1.063 1.063

@pause for a beat

@overlay 6176605541302272_VIDEO EDITS AND SCREENSHOTS shifts to -6 -32 in zone 1 in 0.5
@overlay 6176605541302272_VIDEO EDITS AND SCREENSHOTS scales to 1.063 1.063 in 0.5

@pause for a beat

And this is the warning:
Specify one of “shifts too”, “rotates”, “scales too”. “opacity”, “to layer”, for your overlay animation.

But its correct. Right? So I’m really confused on what the problem is.

By what I can tell, it’s one of two things:

In the beginning setup of your scene, you don’t have any directions for the overlay when you create it, meaning:

EXT. FIRE - NIGHT with VIDEO EDITS AND SCREENSHOTS [missing command]

I believe that you need to have spot directing in the initial setup of the scene. Like this:

EXT. FIRE - NIGHT with VIDEO EDITS AND SCREENSHOTS spot 1.063 323 -44 in zone 1 (I’m not 100% sure if I wrote this correctly. I use the &overlay NAME create code instead)

OR…

Your problem may be with the name of the overlay. Since AND is used as a part of coding, I believe that the Episode script is taking your code like this:

@.overlay 6176605541302272_VIDEO EDITS [missing command] AND SCREENSHOTS [shifts/scales to …]

I’m not completely sure this is the problem, but I suggest changing the name of the overlay to something without the joining word AND or with AND connected using _ (VIDEO_EDITS_AND_SCREENSHOTS).

I hope this helps.

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