To: Nat
As it happens, I was using the most current version ot the program (6.3.2.234) to begin with and the version mentioned in my previous message was a typo. Nevertheless, I have uninstalled/reinstalled the AVS4YOU programs per your instruction. Unfortunately, the text editing problem in AVS4YOU Video Editor persists exactly as previously described. To recapitulate and demonstrate the problem, I'll describe again the steps to dulicate and attach a MS word file with screenshots that show it.
1) Open AVS4YOU Video Editon (Version 6.3.2.234)
2) Choose Text from the main screen middle toolbar
3) Choose the "Simple" folder of text presets
4) Drag and drop a "Simple 02" text preset item onto the Text line
5) Double click on this text item to open the Text Editing window
As seen in the 1st screenshot, the Text Editing window opens with a text object already filled with the characters "Text"
6) Double click inside this text object to begin editing the text characters
As seen in the 2nd screenshot, the carat is now placed inside the text item in text entry mode
7) Press backspace to begin erasing the unwanted "default" characters
As seen in the 3rd screenshot, instead of erasing any character, the text area becomes a jumble.
8) Click anywhere outside the text entry area to exit text entry mode
As seen in the 4th screenshot, the backspace did in fact erase the "e" character as intended, but that is of little help when such editing is
not visible while actually attempting to enter/edit text in text entry mode.
9) Click "OK" in the Text Editing window to conclude and save editing
As seen in the 5th screenshot, the editing that was actually done with the difficulty at least is preserved.
10) Finally, in the 6th screenshot I've Help/About just so you can verify that I'm indeed working with the latest version.
To summarize, text editing can be done, but to do in this manner is very cumbersome and clearly not how the program should work. Also, there are work arounds, such as creating/saving a custom preset like one of the standard ones one might use except with the text area explicitly cleared but, again, that should not be necessary, and moreover, if one subsequently edits text placed in such a custom preset the same problem arises when that text is altered.
Please let me know if you need any more specific information or description of the problem and/or more/different illustrative screenshots.
The ability to create and edit text overlays is integral to almost all my Video Editor projects, so I will be very interested to hear your comments re this problem and look forward to a prompt fix as a) this it has never occurred in any of the several previous versons I've used and b) everything else about the program seems to work just fine.
Thanks, Stan Hall