Creating a title card?

ya know the scene at the end of pulp fiction when harvey keitel races to the house in his car, and it says 9 min 37...38...39 seconds later? i dont want the exact design of that title card, but just a plain title card saying something like 9 minutes 37..38...39 seconds later... how do i do that ?
thank u.

You can use the built in TC GENERATOR, and get it to count down backwards by making the numbers negative. But that takes a LOT of fiddling to get right. This is why people take the time to make something that works, and is easy. And all this work should be rewarded. That is a great plugin, and is only $30. I bought it the instant I found it.
Want free? Gotta take time manually doing it or fiddling with settings. How valuable is your time?
Shane

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Hello professionals,
I have a question for you, guys: I am editing a short film now which is a throwback to some old 1930's films. I keep creating the title cards but the font always looks to modern. How can I create the title cards in Final Cut Pro so they have that old, 1930's feel flicker to it? An example of this would be the opening credits in this film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXtjWq-k78
I'd like to do something similar. Thank you so much in advance.
Matthew

While it won't be exactly the same you can easily create something similar. Go to the GENERATORS BROWSER and select TEXTURES and the PAPER and drag that to the timeline. Then in TITLES drag the BASIC TITLE on top of your paper and select the font you want while changing the colour to black, etc. in the INSPECTOR.
Select the title and paper on your timeline and right-click and select NEW COMPOUND CLIP.
In the EFFECTS select VIGNETTE and drop that on your clip. Then you could add FILM GRAIN, SIDELIGHTS, or perhaps PROJECTOR and in the INSPECTOR adjust the parameters.
Not sure if that's what you're looking for but it's a possibility.

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I generally use Keynote to create some of my more elaborate titles (say, for wedding videos). I usually set the slide size to 1280 x 720 and save as a jpeg. You can also create animated titles and export them as a .mov file for use in iMovie. Most of my editing work involves HD clips imported as HD 1920 x 1080, but I find that using 1280 x 720 produces excellent results. All text is crisp and all graphics are immaculate (at least to my eyes).
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Hi. I'm using solid-color title cards and have two questions:
1) Is it possible to create a title card that does a reveal, so that the initial line of text appears first, with the rest faded in after two or three seconds?
2) I'm working on an interview video and would like the audio for each clip to begin "under" the title card that introduces the clip. Is this doable?
Thanks in advance,
Don

See page 18 of the user guide: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Presenter/7.0/presenter7.0_user_guide.pdf
JP

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Well a great start would be for you to tell us what you do have and what you have tried
Otherwise this will be an endless string of wild guesses
There are many different versions of iPhoto and each is different from the others - plus they run on different operating systems which can affect answers
We are not mind readers - you need to help out by explaining your configuration and situation
LN

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Fairly new to AE, but I am looking to create an animated slide show for a documentary wherein the title card text reveals itself in a way that looks like it's declassified - Sharpie marker being erased - ala the Zero Dark Thirty trailer title cards.
ZERO DARK THIRTY - Official Trailer - In Theaters 12/19 - YouTube
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Regards,
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Simple Stroke-based wipes with a measure of Roughen Edges thrown in on top of Brush strokes created in Photoshop or Illustrator using Bristle/ Art Brushes. Basic stuff. Just typing in "stroke reveal" on a web search will hit you with gigazillions of tutorials.
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Problem - Title Cards in Vid Track 2 Skewing In and Out Points in Track 1 ?

Hi,
Vast confusion. I'm working with edits in a timeline, created from video files that are "Avid Meridien Compressed" Quicktime Files. These are files that I exported from Avid. They are 24P files. The timeline has been set to 23.97, and everything in Video Track 1 makes sense, no problems, no render line because the project compression settings have been set to "Avid Meridien Compressed".
Ok, so here's the problem. I am creating title cards with the video generator in FCP, and trying to super them into my edits by placing them into Video Track 2. But the moment I drop a title card into Video Track 2, (over an edit I have made in Video Track 1), there is a SHIFT in the in and out points of the source video in the timeline. For example, let's say an edit in my timeline has a source in of 02:02:30:17 and an out of 02:02:35:17. The moment I try and drop a title card over this edit in Video Track 2, the source video in Track 1 shifts, so it now begins at 02:02:31:29 and ends at 02:02:36:29.
It is as if the title cards refuse to conform to the 23.97 timeline, and are overriding the source video edit decisions in Video Track 1.
Does anyone have any thoughts on why this is occcuring? Does anyone have any suggestions for a remedy? BTW, I have also tried creating title cards in photoshop and dropping them in, but with the same result: it changes the source time code edits by shifting them later into the source video.
Thanks,
Mtbakerstu

Update!
While I was never able to get the Vid Track 2 title cards to stop shifting the edit decisions in Vid Track 1 when using the preset that is in tandem with the actual source video files (Avid Meridien Quicktimes at 23.98), I did find that by changing the Sequence Setting to DV/DVCPRO50 NTSC at 23.98 that I could drop the titles into Vid Track 2 successfully without any skewing of edit decisons. You now have to render the timeline, but a quick test of an MPEG2 export showed that there's no denigration in image quality with using this setting.
So that's the scoop. It seems that there's no pure solution to this issue. Perhaps if there's a way to generate title cards out of Avid that are importable into FCP, that would do the trick, but I haven't taken my research that far.
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Hello,
With the past few videos I've created lately in Adobe Premiere Elements 7, I start the video with a few words on a title card before it launches into video/voiceovers, etc.
However, after I export the video and upload it to the "channel" we use to stream our videos, when played back, the beginning title card either doesn't show the text at all or shows it for a half-second and then the screen goes black before the video starts properly. The rest of the video and title cards work just fine. It's just the beginning title cards taht don't show up.
Any suggestions on how to fix it? I've tried deleting and recreating the card, recreating the entire video, created the card in Photoshop and inserted it as an image... but nothing seems to fix it.
Thanks!

Welcome to the forum.
As a test, go to the New Icon in the Project Panel, and choose Black Media. This will be created at the Duration, that is set in Edit Preferences, but that does not matter. In the Project Panel, Dbl-click on that new Black Media, to open it in the Source Monitor. There, set the Out Point to the 02 sec. mark. Now, drag that 02 sec. Black Video to the front of the Timeline, and in the Video Track with your Title. Everything else shoudl Ripple, to accommodate that 02 sec.of Black Video. Then, just add a Cross-dissolve to the junction between the Black Video and the Title. Export/Share and test. Does that get you the full Duration of your Title?
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I went to rippletraining.com and after downloading got this error message...and yet I am unable to find any applications in the App store that meet my needs.

kristydrums wrote:
Okay, this seems out of my league! …
you haven't tried!
you managed to handle FCPX, a highly professional edit-tool.
What I suggested, is just 'basics':
compose a few elements.
Get inspired by other videos you notice around.
To animate 'elements', use keyframes.
To apply 'overlays', green-screen/color-key is a basic procedure…
To prep stills, a designated pic-processor is of fundamental need… although, even MacOS built-in Preview.app allows creation of 'knock-outs'/transparency… in case, you're shy to invest a few $$ for Pixelmator.
It looks maybe complicated - it isn't!
Don't try it first time for some serious projcect… but creating your very own Xmas-scenery is a lot of fun… plus, you learn a lot about FCPX and its many hidden gems…
Final word:
Catch some nice, own pics with your cam! … snowy trees, 4 candles and some cookies, a frozen window, illuminations in the streets, that crazy neighbour with his 50.000Watts of garden decorations .... Just add a charming title - done. Simplicity rules! …
Merry Chistmas!

I'm making title cards, need suggestions re: fonts, etc.

h'lo all,
after getting (very) frustrated with iMHD6 title durations, I realized I could make my own white-on-black title cards in PhotoShop by creating a white typ/black background jpeg, which I could drag in to iMHD6, then set whatever length I chose. It works pretty well, except that fonts that look great in PhotoShop get pretty "soft" when they come in to iMHD6. I've been trying the following:
320 x 240, 150ppi
Times New Roman, 10 point
save as jpeg, max quality.
Any suggestions on changing the font, size, resolution, etc?
many thanks

Bill Myers wrote:
.. 320 x 240, 150ppi
Times New Roman, 10 point..
.. which is about a quarter of the res, NTSC offers.. so iM 'blows-up' your painting and esp. the serifs of your font get blurry .. addtional increased by the high contrats of plain b/w.
720x480 (dpi is of no use for video, doesn't matter 300 or 5...) as res - if your project is 'Standard' not HiDef or widescreen..
avoid, if you use serif fonts, too small font size.. 30-40 pix is perhaps a benchmark => otherwise the tiny serifs at the 'feed' of a typo gets 'sub pixel' = flimmer in video..

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Have u resolved it then Please let me know !!! It is a very interesting problem and owuld like to know the solution...
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I used to be a Windows user and everytime I try to do something I knew how to do in windows I can't figure out how to do it in MAC. Can someone tell me how to create a business card or find a template to create one?
I've tried to find the anwser everywhere and can't find it.
Although I have some trouble sometimes I do love my MAC.
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It's not the computer platform that determines this, how you make business cards depends on what program you're using.
I assume, that since you mention coming from Windows, you're used to doing this task in Word. You can do it in Word for Mac. You can probably find quite a few shareware or freeware programs on MacUpdate or VersionTracker. I've used AppleWorks & now Pages for years for this kind of stuff.
This is the forum dedicated to the workings of the forums themselves, not for technical questions. A better place for this question would have been the forum for using the model of Mac you have.
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How do I create a title, that behaves like a button?

Hi,
I'm using XML to load data from asp to flash. Here's the XML
example:
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2. <news>
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today!</headline>
5. <date>05/09/1986</date>
6. <message>Today my new xml based flash news reader
came out, I am so excited!</message>
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9. <headline>One day until the Flash XML Based News
reader is out!</headline>
10. <date>05/08/1986</date>
11. <message>Tomorrow my new xml based flash news
reader comes out, I am so excited!</message>
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reader is out!</headline>
15. <date>05/07/1986</date>
16. <message>The day after tomorrow my new xml based
flash news reader comes out, I am so excited!</message>
17. </item>
18. </news>
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1. // Initialize the xml object that our news will be loaded
into
2. var news_xml : XML = new XML();
3. // ignore all whitespaces inside of our xml file
4. news_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
5. // when the xml recieves a return from the load() function
call, execute this function
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8. if ( success ) {
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formatting
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the current swf unloads
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author, which movie to load next).
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behave like a link (just add the
http://... in the headline tag in XML
document. But this,..... I just don't know how to do that.
THX for any help

2m, you are right. I should tell you about my concept. It's
all on the paper yet, because this is how I work - first I write
down everything on paper, study it and the next step in trying to
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make sense? Is there a better way for that?
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which content the user wants to see.
About the article part:
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and short description). When he/she clicks on the title, all the
action happens:
flash sends the data which article the user wants to read to
asp, asp searches in data base for the requested article and
creates xml, where are title, date and the whole content of the
article.
At the same time asp also sends via <object>tag in html
the id of the swf that must be loaded and the id of the author of
the article, so the swf, where the pictures of the all authors are,
will know what picute must load (this is the second swf that is
loaded on the article part - it's created like a gallery; the
author of the active article is bigger and if the user wants to
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picture and then the images are moving in a slider way and when
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If you have better idea how to create this, please, advice.
THX for the help so far

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// ArrayBag.java Author: Lewis/Chase
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======================================================
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* BingoCard.java
* Created on January 28, 2006, 9:08 PM
* To change this template, choose Tools | Options and locate the template under
* the Source Creation and Management node. Right-click the template and choose
* Open. You can then make changes to the template in the Source Editor.
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What can I do or am I doing wrong? Please help me learn.

Hey thanks for all the help. I got figured out so thanks again. :D

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