Alignment of labels within a video in ArcGIS Earth

Question

Hi All,

I'm using the latest version of ArcGIS earth and am working on making a video. I've run across some issues with labeling, both within layers and as text in the video. The labels for the layers wasn't what I wanted so I decided to make labels within the Text part of the video. I'm able to make labels with the right font, font size, and color without any issues. What I ran into is alignment. There is no menu to setup the alignment of the text if it goes over more than one line. I've looked everywhere. Is there a trick to this or is there no alignment option at all?

I like the software. I think I can make a decent video with it. The text alignment issues is just annoying.

Thanks,

Keith

KeithFowlow · Answer

Hi Lexie,

Thanks for replying to my question.

At this time I am not able to make a video but I took a screen shot of the issue. As you can see, I made a few labels for polygons. These polygons are part of their own layer in the video. Originally, I had the labels generated by the data layer. But I wanted to emphasize one label over the others. So I had to resort to make individual video labels. Now as you can see from the screen shot, I made the labels but I am not able to align them to the center. On the right of the screen shot are the properties of one of the labels and there is no option to align the labels. I'm using the most recent version of ArcGIS Earth. When I turn on the labels in the data layer, they will center justify the text if need be. But there is also no option to change the alignment of the text. It is a conundrum. Do you think this is a software issue and alignment was not added? Do you have a work around? I can think of one but it will be time consuming and make my additional layers which I was hoping to avoid.

Kind regards,

Keith

Lexie · Answer

Hi @KeithFowlow

Thank you for using ArcGIS Earth and for sharing your feedback with us.

Regarding your question about text alignment, we understand how this could be an important feature for your workflow. If possible, could you provide a short video demonstrating your use case? For example, are you using the Earth Movie tool to create your video? Understanding your workflow more clearly would help us provide better guidance and assess if there are any workarounds or improvements we can suggest.

Please feel free to share any additional details, and we’ll do our best to improve your experience.

Thanks,

Lexie