How do i make a simple title in fcpx?

okay stupid question, how can I make a simple title without any preadjusted parameters/animation/etc..?

Use the Custom title.

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Apple OS X.6.8
View site at: http://dorsay-easton-indian-law.com/staging/index.html
Steps:
1. Click link to land on Home page
2. View Home link in Spry horizontal navigation menu
Actual:
Home menu title is the same color as all of the others.
Expected:
The title of the active menu is color: #FFC.
I was hoping that a:active would give me this functionality, but that's not how it is described. Any suggestions are welcome!

Nothing I have tried in the template makes the BODY tag editable. That's why I'm wondering how to disconnect the template from the individual pages. Adding an ID to each body tag is a prerequisite of the how-to page you supplied.
You don't make the <body> tag editable in a Template.
You make attributes of the <body> tag editable.
Don't disconnect the Template from the child pages.
Specify editable tag attributes in a template
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/using/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-7aa3a.h tml
In the Template:
Select the <body> tag (either in the Tag selector or click inside the <body> tag in Code View)
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How can I make a simple slideshow on iDVD?

As opposed to the majority of Apple apps that are "user-friendly" I find using iDVD a very awkward, un-friendly application. It offers "drop zones" without me understanding what I should "drop" into them.
I just want to make a simple DVD of a slideshow with some background music ... nothing fancy. I don't need any theme and I don't need to add any movies.

To simply create a slide show in iDVD 7 onwards from images in iPhoto or stored in other places on your hard disk or a connected server, look here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1089
If you want something a bit more sophisticated:
There are many ways to produce slide shows using iPhoto, iMovie or iDVD and some limit the number of photos you can use (iDVD has a 99 chapter (slide) limitation).
If what you want is what I want, namely to be able to use high resolution photos (even 300 dpi tiff files), to pan and zoom individual photos, use a variety of transitions, to add and edit music or commentary, place text exactly where you want it, and to end up with a DVD that looks good on both your Mac and a TV - in other words end up with and end result that does not look like an old fashioned slide show from a projector - you may be interested in how I do it. You don't have to do it my way, but the following may be food for thought!
Firstly you need proper software to assemble the photos, decide on the duration of each, the transitions you want to use, and how to pan and zoom individual photos where required, and add proper titles. For this I use Photo to Movie. You can read about what it can do on their website:
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
(Other users here use the alternative FotoMagico: http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/homevspro/ which you may prefer - I have no experience with it.)
Neither of these are freeware, but are worth the investment if you are going to do a lot of slide shows. Read about them in detail, then decide which one you feel is best suited to your needs.
Once you have timed and arranged and manipulated the photos to your liking in Photo to Movie, it exports the file to iMovie as a DV stream. You can add music in Photo to Movie, but I prefer doing this in iMovie where it is easier to edit. You can now further edit the slide show in iMovie just as you would a movie, including adding other video clips, then send it to iDVD 7, or Toast, for burning.
You will be pleasantly surprised at how professional the results can be!

How can i make higher resolution titles?

i am working on a dvd that will be nationally produced through churches all over america and most likely the world and everything is going great (now that i bought more RAM...) but i am using just very basic titles for the dvd but they look so pixelated and low res. i am working with FCE 1.1 and i am using the TEXT from the video generators, does anyone know how i can make higher res texts that don't look so stinkin pixelated? thanks so much

The general rules are - use a sans-serif font (for example, Arial) and make it as large as you can, subject to the limits of your aesthetic tolerance. Small fonts & serif fonts do not work well in video.
I don't know if FCE 1.1 included Title 3D, but that generator includes a 1:2:1 Deflicker control that may be helpful. If not, you could try adding the Flicker Filter to your text clip.
Another suggestion (and I'm assuming you have still text, not moving text) would be to duplicate the text clip and stack it on top of the original text clip, on a higher video track. Then open the original text clip and apply the Gaussian Blur filter or Anti-Alias filter. This will help soften the pixellated edges of the text.
Which generator(s) are you using, what font & what size?

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I am building an avation website and want clouds to move across the banner to give the feel that the site/airplane logo is moving in the sky. I already have the clouds that i made in Illustrator but now I need to make a simple GIF that has the cloud move from one side of the screen to the other and repeat. I dont even know how to do animation frames or any of that so I need lots of detail. Thanks!

I went the one of those links and saw that that the following would give me better understanding. Does everone here understand now. Its not in my knowledge base!
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        maxDuration: 120000,    // Maximum tracel time for a cloud across the screen (milliseconds)
        checkInterval: 10000,   // The interval used to check if new clouds are needed (milliseconds)
        autoStart: true,        // Automatically starts the cloud generator by default (bool)
        sky: $("sky"),          // Default sky target resides in an element named "sky" (element)
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Walter Wedler wrote:
I could not find how to make a simple time-spend = cost tracking sheet for one customer at a time. It is hard for me to keep track of the time I use for arranging music in Logic and Sibelius. I was thinking like A=date, B=what was done, C=start working, D=end working, E=D-C time spend, F=charge for time spend. Sometimes I do work twice or more on a day? (set up E to calkulate total time and F the cost) I do not want to use special software or online service. Thank you for all your help.
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Not been using iMovie for too long so apologies if this is a really easy answer, I have searched the web but cannot find the right response.
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Hi, I'm new to iDVD and I really need some help here. I hate the menus this comes with and am having a hard time creating what I need.
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go to your Applications folder and ctrl-click iDVD, then choose "Show Package Contents" from the drop-down menu. Next navigate to the Resources folder, find the theme, duplicate and rename it, then open the copy with the above procedure (choose Full Frame 1 for this - the other one is a bit tricky)
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dianefromeliot wrote:
Thanks for the software suggestion - http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/Audio-Recorder.shtml - it looks good. Why do you use it instead of Garage Band?
Had it before GB existed; I use other audio software for other tasks, but this one is probably the most easy to use app (of any kind) I've ever used. Click, speak, click, click. Done, with file sitting on my desktop.

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