Boris Title 3D Crashes FCP

New Mac Pro, new Final Cut Studio. Did all the updates from Apple. Mac OS X 10.5.4.
When I try to use Boris Title 3D over any piece of video it shuts FCP down.
I can open Boris, I can type, change settings, etc. When I try to put it on the timeline with video, FCP shuts down.
Any suggestions?

Ding Ding! We have a winner. Over the weekend I was mulling the problem over and realized I had downloaded and installed a couple fonts the day before. Deleted them this morning and it works now. When I went into Suitcase to delete them, they showed as "Missing".
Thanks, Michael. Points for ya.
Jonathan

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This started as a missing Text editor. When I'd open the controls tab and try to open the Boris text editor, the pop-up window was nowhere to be found. I trashed my prefs but that didn't solve it. Now, whenever I try to open the text editor, all of FCP crashes. When I try to restart FCP, the start-up crashes and it never opens. Trashing the prefs DOES solve that issue and I'm able to get into FCP. But still can't access the Boris text editor. Any ideas?

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I'm using FCP5 and having a heck of a time. Once I put some titles in the project with Boris 3D, now the project won't even load up without crashing. In the past at least I could get the project opened, and then it would crash (over 50 times in the past 2 days!).
Any solutions would be great. I already ready a past post about using Font Book to test the fonts in the system and removing any corrupted ones.. but when I validate them all, they come up with warnings, yet none were seriously damaged.
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Duplicates are no big deal really. But they will load into RAM when you launch an app that uses some form of text processing.
Use the command: Edit > *Resolve Duplicates* from the FontBook menu bar to turn them off.
EDIT: the Cambria font is installed by Microsoft Office and uses the ClearType format, which might not be compatible with Boris.
There are free TrueType versions [here|http://www.fontyukle.com/en/ara.php?ara=cambria] -you might have more luck with those.
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Hello,
I am trying to type in about a paragraph of text into the 3d Title in FCP3. Is there a limit to how much text you can put in there. Once I am back on the timeline I get the beach ball
any time I click on that title. Can't resize etc.., I have chosen to put the text over a white background not black.
The text is from a PDF that doesn't look good in FCP once on DVD.
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Al

You don't say how much ram you have but yes, A lot of text will slow down the Boris text tool. Make sure you don't have any other attributes turned on like shadows or edges, before you paste your text in. Try only loading a paragraph at a time to see how musch your G4 can tolerate.
joe

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Hello, I got a sequence with subtitles made with Boris title 3D and FCP HD. After upgrading my system to FCP studio 5.1 I am not able to open this sequence anymore. It crashes on the Boris plug in. Are the two Boris title 3D versions not compatible?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rob.

Has anyone bothered to search for an answer?
A quick search for BORIS 3D yielded more than 100
hits n about forty-five threads. Many possible
causes, many different symptoms.
The results were not encouraging because the OPs
rarely came back to close the threads and we just
hate that around here.
Time for you guys to start sifting through the posts
for situations in the threads that resemble your
individual situations.
bogiesan
I also spend a lot of time going through threads to make sure my problem has not been answered before, I really do hate to waste peoples time.
Michael,
thanks for your reply, i will try and find a program for corrupt fonts and post my findings.
Cheers.

Boris Title 3-D problem

When I attempt to create a title in Boris Title 3-D, FCP suddenly quits. Then that file will not reopen (I see it briefly and then it crashes again). It does not quit when I use other text options. Do you have any suggestions on fixing this problem?

What Mr. Wolsky says, also:
Boris released and update to fix some of these problems:
!http://www.spotsbeforeyoureyes.com/Boris.jpg!
You can download the update free at
http://www.borisfx.com/news/labels/Boris-Calligraphy.php
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I recently uploaded OSX 10.6.7 and ever since then, my Boris titler in FCP does not work with all the fonts, notably Avenir. It actually crashes FCP now. It was fine with the previous version. What's up Apple?

I recently uploaded OSX 10.6.7 and ever since then, my Boris titler in FCP does not work with all the fonts, notably Avenir. It actually crashes FCP now. It was fine with the previous version. What's up Apple?

I know what your'e going through, Gary.   OSX 10.6.7 is an absolute disaster.   Since I upgraded, I've had problems in FCP, Logic, Garageband, even issue dealing with peripheral hardware like external monitors.
Before 10.6.7 my system was running fine.
I've brought this up with Apple repeatedly.   They smile and shrug.   They've been helpful resolving the issues, but none of them has been easy to solve. I have spent days, dealing back and forth with tech support, sending logs, etc., before solutions have been found.
I wish I could give you an answer to your question.   My only guess is that Apple has totally dropped the ball on this one.   In the future they should provide a disclaimer when they offer an upgrade. Something like:   "Caution: all of your software may not function after this upgrade. But go ahead, you'll feel cool that your OS is the latest thing."
As someone who has been with Apple for close to 25 years, I'm disturbed by what appears to be an increasing sloppiness in their work.   This is especially disturbing when you depend upon their system to make your living.
Good luck.
david

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What format are you working in? If it's DV, simply create a new file in photoshop using the DV preset and then adjust the vertical dimension to whatever is appropriate. Post back if you want, and I'll look at some of the crawls I've done and see what they're dimensions are.
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All apologies if this is an ages old bug that everyone worked to fix years ago. I was a daily editor from FCP 1.0 until 2004 or so when a project caused me to walk away from cuts and edits and crashes all together. Like a masochist, I've jumped back in, but without the prior security that came with daily readings of all the proper forums. I've tried to do my due diligence (5 hours here, 2-pop, Cow, etc) but to no avail. So....
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Previews of text when using Boris Title Crawl to create a crawl look fine, but after rendering, the beginning and end of each text string, no matter how long, are missing.
So the above sentence would read:
ext when using Boris Title Crawl to create a crawl look fine, but after rendering, the beginning and end of each text string a
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Dual 1.42 GHz G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Welcome (back) to the forum.
Have you tried...
Deleting all renders in Render Manager, then re-rendering?
using the crawl in a different sequence or project?
trashing preferences?
I'm unable to duplicate the behavior. Seems to work fine here, with that sentence.
How are you previewing?
Do you have improperly set 'Margins' in the 'page' tab of Boris...or any crops set in 'Motion' tab of FCP?
Post back,
K
EDIT - BTW, FCP4.5 works best with OS 10.3.9/QT6.5.2

Creating Gutter with Boris Title Crawl

Hello all!
I'm doing the end credits for a DV project and as we all know Boris is better than Final Cut's text generators. Just wondering if there's a feature in Boris a la the * in FCP's Scrolling Text generator. You know, to line up those gaps. I've fidgeted and can't find it.
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*This is very annoying - because the problem comes about at the the tail end of projects when I'm trying to export files to create DVDs, make deadlines, etc.*
Not an answer to your question... I've never used Boris title crawl. But a suggestion that might save you time when trouble shooting... You can just export the title sequence at the end of your show as a test to verify if it's working properly rather than exporting the whole thing only to find you still have an issue.
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I build a title roll in Boris Title Crawl for a weekly TV show that I edit in HDV 1080i60 (that is how I get the footage) that airs on Dish Network and DirecTV. I build the end credits in Boris Title Crawl using the "Roll" animation style. The roll will appear in the perfect position on the screen. However, sometimes over time and subsequent rendering, the titles will disappear completely from the screen, and I believe they are being positioned far off to the side outside of the viewable area. The wireframe for the roll remains in the correct position, it just appears empty. If I re-open Boris Title Crawl and then click "apply" again, the mispositioning is corrected, at least for a while. If I try to export using quicktime conversion to another format (Quicktime Movie with H.264 compression), the roll might disappear again, and the movie will export without the roll. This has only been happening since upgrading to FCP 7, I don't recall it every happening with FCP 6. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I don't use Boris regularly, but when I have, I never encountered this, and I doubt it's related to upgrading to 7. If I understand correctly what you're describing, the changes could be caused by any number of things – like whatever cutting took place on your TL "over time and subsequent rendering" causing re-renders.
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Not sure where to put this, since it involves two applications, FCP and Compressor.
I have my credits done as a Boris title crawl (roll). They roll up just like credits in the average movie. They're quite long, spanning almost 4 minutes. Some videos are also included in the open space during this title crawl.
When I convert the files for use with DVD Studio, I used the DVD Best quality 90 minutes presets. It performed that conversion without a hitch.
Looking at the video, everything looks great (it's interlaced, of course). No apparent problems, until the end, where the credits should be scrolling: there's nothing. The videos show up, but only one small section of the credits actually show, and it's cut-off.
I checked the credits again in FCP, and they all fit 100% within the inner title-safe overlays. I've never had any trouble with these rolling credits, except for this problem now.
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Yet, sending it to Compressor completely destroys the title crawl, leaving the intermixed videos untouched. Just plain weird...

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...looks squeezed and distorted - even to the point that it gets clipped at the top and bottom of the frames on the frames that have a bunch of text.
All updated software, late 2007 MP, sequence is HDV 1080p, 23.98, no field dominance, and I am trying to export the sequence using compressor and the iPhone VGA preset.
This sequence and workflow is the same as several other sequences that I have exported in the past, just different content - but otherwise the settings are all identical and even the titles that are being distorted are simply copies from other sequences that have worked in the past. This is really like one of those "all of a sudden" things.
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