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Many thanks to both of you. 'Nationalsolo' put the finger on my problem:

"On the track the text should have a chequered appearance...."

I checked my 'Editor Background' setting because my editor showed a White background, not a checkered  one, found that it had been set to "Full Background".  I had been playing with the settings without really knowing what I was doing.  It is working OK now.    I don't remember seeing anything about this in my reading or the YouTube videos, probably because Editor Background is the default setting

Thanks again for all your help.

I am a new user of the demo version (10.12).  I was  able to import my clips, and successfully edited them.  Now, I am trying to add captions to some of the clips, using 'Add Text/Add Title/SubTitles', function, none of which work. I create the image, drag it to Video Timeline 2.  When I run the video, when it gets to my subtitle, instead of overlaying it over the video, it snaps to Video Track 2, plays my Overlay in stand-alone mode, then snaps back to my video.

I have watched many You Tube videos, and it seems like I am taking the right steps.  I fully recognize that this is probably Operator Error, but I just can't figure out what I am doing wrong.

Could this be caused by my using the Demo version of this product?  I will gladly pay for thte full version, but, I don't want to pay for something that doesn't fix the problem.

Thanks