FCE Titles

In adding text titles to a FCE film clip, the title script is centered and begins at the middle height of the clip. Is there any way that a title word can be placed at the top of the clip or at any other place (not centered) on the clip? Thanks, Jack A

Thanks much. Your comments were valuable in that some of my titles exceeded the defined area so went in and corrected them early on. JA

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Here is the basic issue: I want to get titles from LiveType into FCE.
I have created a rather complex presentation in FCE, it is a promotional video. Now I want to put people's names in. Here is what I have done:
1) in FCE, I exported the complete project "For LiveType"
2) In LT, I made the FCE project the background and I have put all of the right titles where I want them
3) I want to move the LT project into the FCE one so that I can have sound.
I can't figure it our nor can I find the answer in either the FCE or LT manuals. Each time I do something it just gets more and more messed up and rendering takes an hour before I know that what I did didn't work.
What do I need to do?

How long is the video project? If you're making lower thirds it's usually done by making separate projects for each person rather than one large project that runs the length of the video. It would require rendering the entire video project in FCE. If you really do want to do it the why you want make the background layer active in LT. You can do this by either moving the video layer above the background bar, or by turning on the background in the project properties. It will require re-rendering everything when the project is laid back in FCE.

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I'm trying to organize myself for a project and I don't know whether to add/mix my music in FCE or Soundtrack, or, should I bother with titling and text effects in FCE or do it all in Livetype.
Is there a right way to do this?
Rory

Just words for thought:
FCE Title 3D is a very good titler. Livetype gives you the ability to animate titles, use backgrounds, more titling effects etc. My projects combine both; if I just need straightforward titles and title rolls (I dont like the LT scroll) I use Title 3D. If I need titles that are more customized and dynamic, I use LT
I do most of my audio in FCE; mixing various tracks together, common EQing, etc. If I get some real funky audio that needs heavy correcting, I use SoundTrack. If I need some original BG music, I use ST
Personally, I find LT easier to use from within FCE, I like the integration better. Create the title in LT, save the LT project, open that in FCE and if I need to make changes, use the Open in Editor function
I find ST a little clunkier to use but I don't employ it as often, so I am sure I am not taking full advantage of its integration

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Hi(Bonjour)!
sharronsuss wrote:
Bonjour et merci, Michel - I've been playing around in International Preferences, but can't seem to get a Keyboard Viewer (in any language) to show itself. The Mac onscreen help window doesn't seem to relate to my actual options, so I think I will go to the general OS forum.
Look in the menu bar, there should be a little flag representing your language keyboard setup. It's a menu. Use it to activate the "show keyboard layout..." (May be it's other terms as I use mine in french.
Once this keyboard layout viewer is open (it will open over any application so you can use it anytime), you can use the command, shift, option keys or combo of those keys on your keyboard and see all combinaisons in the layout window (example: in french layout, I have to use ALT-G to do a copyright symbol: © ). (for the history: Mac has always contained a keyboard viewer from system 1.0 )
Close the keyboard layout and use the key combinaison to type the desired symbol.
The widget is faster, it opens a list of all characters in the font set.
From your current text editor (or from FCE title generator), invoque the "characterpal" widget and simply look at the key combinaison to get the desired character .
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I am running FCE/HD 3.5 with Live Type 2.1. I am trying to match a graphic (super) that is on the existing source video. The graphic would be simple: a persons name and job title with a colored rectangle bordered with a thin line. In Media 100 and Avid this is pretty easily done. The graphic also includes two smaller colored rectangles with smaller text, also border with a thin line. All thre are placed in the lower third of the frame. I know it's the 90's look, but that how it is. Can Live Type replicate this older style graphic?

Thanks for all responses.
I have the Live Type Central tutorials - they are helpful - I'll apply them another time. My version of Live Type only has a few objects listed. Is that the way Live Type comes?
Photo Shop is out of my price range. All-in-all what was decided was to strip the text graphics with source and add basic FCE titles - kind of the opposite end of the jazzy titles in Live Type.

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I did a search for this topic and came up with nothing. Is there a way I can change the default length of various things from FCE titles, imported .jpg's, freeze frames, and so forth?
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User Preferences/Editing panel lets you set Still/Freeze Duration. That's for importing new still images and creating freeze frames. Titles are fixed at 10 seconds, but using superimpose will take the duration from the underlying image.

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SOLVED!
Wow, what a day. So the fix is in and was found here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=248361&threadrate=1&messageid= 1259888#1259888
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Using FCE 4 to edit mov file, inserted 8 chapter markers by double tap M, enter title, click add chapter marker. Rendered and half of the chapter markers unrecognized or not functional. Delete FCE prefs and redo project did not help. How to fix?

Using FCE 4 to edit mov file. Added 8 chapter markers by double tap M, enter title, click add chapter marker. Rendered and 4 of the chapter markers are skipped or not functioning. Deleting FCE prefs and rebuild project did not solve. Solution anyone?

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Boris Title 3D in FCE

I'm using FCE 4.0.1 and Boris Title 3D version 2.1.0.060120
I'm finding that text justification doesn't work correctly. Also, it doesn't allow me to set it differently in different sections the way you can change size or color & stuff. This is the only text generator that works for the effect I'm creating (so I can't use something else).
Have there been any updates to this plugin? I asked Boris FX but didn't get a reply. (I hate it when companies have an online help site and don't even respond.)
Thanks.

OK, great! That helps. But there's still two flaky behaviors I'm seeing.
I have selected full justification with the orphan left justified. But the orphan ends up full justified:
+(I tried to add a picture to the thread, but I guess I don't know how to do that.)+
Anyway, there is no difference between any of the 3 justify buttons. But I can force it to do what I want by putting a tab to the right - so that's an OK work around.
Then when I view it on the Canvas, it takes on a whole new life of its own. The word wrapping occurs in different places.
Thanks for the help. This gets me a lot farther than I was before.
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Title crawl with videos/images in FCE

Hello.
I would like to do a crawl of text credits with small videos or still images crawling inline or beside the text. Is this possible with FCE, specifically with the Boris Title Crawl generator? If so, how do I do it?
Cheers,
Stephen

Do the text crawl first .. estimate how long you want it to be, including the clips/still you need to include. Leave spaces in the crawl when you type it out. Drop that onto V1
On V2 place your clips/still. Match them up to the timing of your crawl. Use motions keyframes to "animate" the clips/stills to move along with the crawl.
This is doable but will take some pre-planning on your part

Boris Title 3D does not appear in FCE 3.5 viewer generators menu

Hello. I've recently installed FCE HD 3.5 (all the options with LiveType, SoundTrack, etc.), and now I'm learning it.
But now I cannot find the Boris 3D text generator under viewer generetors pop up menu. I'm pretty sure that 3D title is installed. Please, any help on how to get Boris under generators menu would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Dmitriy.

Have you completely uninstalled FCE and all its
components, including all folders, documents, files
and other items containing any of its affiliated
applications, including, but not limited to, folders,
files and documents containing the words Boris,
BorisFX, Boris FX, Title 3D, or Title Crawl, as well
as all folders, documents, files, and other items
related to or containing, but not limited to, the
words Final Cut, Final Cut Express, FCE, LiveType, or
Soundtrack.
I've done all of that last night: completely deleted all the items (files, folders, plists, prefs, etc) as described on Apple's site. Then reinstalled FCE with all the related components. Still NO BORIS!
I think there is no point to bother people anymore on this forum. I really appreciate your efforts to help. This must be some kind of unfortunate "hidden bug" on my system that I'm going to have to live with.
As a last resort I might try to stop by the nearest Apple store and try to find someone who knows FCE, etc. Or I might try to contact Apple, file the bug report, or something like that (can some one tell me how to go about it?).
If all else fails, I'll just use LiveType for my titling needs. Would this be a viable option?
Regards,
Dmitriy.

FCE crashes when creating Title clip

Every time I try to create a title clip, the program crashes. I can select the text generator I want, but when I click the Control tab to enter the text, the spinning beach ball shows up and the program crashes. It does this no matter which text generator I choose.
I've tried restarting my computer, repairing permissions, and trashing preferences as described in one similar case (com.apple.FinalCutExpress.plist, Final Cut Express Obj Cache, Final Cut Express Prof Cache.fcpch); but it made no difference.
FYI: I just purchase FCE and installed it. Software Update had trouble updating it to 4.0.1, and I had to reinstall the program to get the update to run correctly. I don't know if that's relevant to my problem.
Without the ability to create title clips, I will be unable to use Final Cut Express; so this is not a feature I can work around.

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Title with transparent background for FCE

I want to place my titles over photos and I can't figure out how to export/save them with no background. When I searched the topic someone suggested un-checking "Render Background" in the file requester when you export your LiveType movie. Now for some reason it is not giving me the option to 'Export Movie', only to 'Export Frame'. What's up?

Live Type needs to Render the Movie, (cmd-R) before you can export the movie.
Although when you render the movie it gets exported as a .mov in the animation codec which has the alpha channel that allows you to place your titles over photos.
Of course once you render your movie you can export it in another codec if you like., but you don't really need to for FCE.
You do need to make sure that you don't render the background though

Unrendered Livetype titles in FCE

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And another question- How can I make slow-mo in FCE?

A LiveType project will always need to be rendered unless you switch to Unlimited RT.
Modify>Speed (Cmd-J).

Titles off center after import into FCE

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