Help Scaling Text For Video Showing Thru Text Fx

[BrotherAJ]

Hi,
I am following some tutorials, which lets you show video "through" large/fat text. The process is to put the large/fat text on the bottom layer, and video in the above layer(s); and then set the composite mode. There are several nice tutorials on YT.

PROBLEM: My font won't scale. As I scale the text; it seems like the text is covered by a black colored border, like a frame of sorts is covering it from scaling close or closer to the frame size.
I am working with video in portrait mode (1080 x 1920), but I don't "think" that is the issue. I have tried several fonts and all of them produce the same results. You can see the image here. The text is the word "WORD", and as I scale it, it is cut off, or more correctly hidden under a black colored border.

Any Thoughts?





Is there some setting that I am missing?
Is there something special about certain fonts?

Thanks
AJ

 

[BrotherAJ]

Hi.... I am not sure how to EDIT posts??

I tried to edit my post, but how?

ANYWAY.... part of this is solved. In addition to the font size control in the TITLE tab, you also have to play with the scaling of the font in the SETTINGS tab, to get it to fill out the entire frame size.

NOW.... I have a different issue. At the beginning - the size is fine - but as the playhead advances (a few hundred frames later) - the text size is getting smaller; however NONE of the values in the TITLE or SETTINGS tab have changed. How can objects move or scale - while no values in the inspector are changing???