Live Fonts in Motion

On Two occasions I have tried to use Live Fonts in Motion and both times
when I import them into final cut or DVD Pro and make a DVD they come out looking pretty skimpy looking. They are very thin and nothing like they look in Motion itself.
Any ideas?
jac

I guess I am too much of a novice at all of this.
I am not sure how to find what you are talking about.
Didnt see it in the browser.
jac

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made a simple text animation that says "the beginning" using "script" live font in Motion 4.
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Easiest way is to probably just reinstall LT from your older set of disks, maybe on a separate Macintosh.
I do not see any option to create the font resources from within Motion.
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hi,
welcome to the posts.
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The only way I know of to change a livefont color in Motion is to apply an HSV filter to the text and rotate the hue around til you get the color you like...
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Hello again..i seem to be asking a lot of questions and i hope i can help as i learn more...
Ive got issues with hard disk space and i notice Live Type and DVDSP taking a massive 19GB between templates and live fonts. In Livetype i notice the live fonts have a preview but they are not checked as installed. Each 'type' is something like 600MB so they are in my system. Can i just drag live types and templates into the trash and still retain the previews.
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If you'll scroll down a few months of posts, you'll see several folks have asked similar questions. I can save you the time; I do not believe any of the threads have been satisfactorily answered or closed.
When you install, you have an option to ignore the massive collections of movies, objects, presets and textures. You can choose to only load the previews. These are sufficient to do most composing and then, as you are prepared to render, you are asked by the app to insert the appropriate resource disk and only the fonts or textures that you need will be loaded. (This preview-only workflow is ridiculously frustrating, though, I do not recommend it.)
You could, I suppose, carefully hunt down and trash everything associated with LT and then reinstall by loading only the preview elements.
Sorry not to offer more concrete information. You'll do us all a favor by telling us what you try and how it works out.
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Illustrator CC 2014 file unable to save when live fonts are included.

Illustrator CC 2014 file will not save when there is any kind of font included that IS NOT outlined / converted to paths.
Does not matter what font. I have tried saving as .PDF / .EPS and I still experience the error ("An unknown error has occurred").
If I copy and paste that live font into another .AI file I have open, then that file will also not save and I get the exact same "unknown error" box when trying to do so.
I'm on an iMac and not using any font management software.
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masonicstyle,
I believe the first guess is corrupted font(s)/font caches, see Items 1) and 11) in Other options (follow the link with that name).
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it just extends the length of the clip not the speed of the effect.
Make sure that the purple effect track is selected (click it once) before changing the speed in the Inspector.

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Likewise, I'm still learning new things. I don't think that ever stops with a tool as rich as this.
Tooltips are fairly easy to ignore, and there are ways (on a Windows system at least) to change their timing if that sort of thing would suit you.
One thing I'm sensitive to - and am always trying to learn more about as well - is the human quality (or maybe it is a shortcoming) where we feel resistance to change.
There's a lot of change in the high tech world that truly ISN'T an improvement, and there's other change that actually isn't bad - once you get used to it. I'm not saying the new font choice mechanisms are one way or the other, but it's CERTAIN that there is some resistance to change involved with the change.
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My suggestion would be to uninstall FCE4, (re)install the previous version, and totally complete your old projects.
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"Pre-installed" by Apple or from a previous owner?
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Hi,
I'm trying to run a live font (burning oil) over another so that it appears that the letters are burned onto the screen. Therefore, I need the burning oil livefont to appear first, and have the letter appear behind it as it fades away.
I want this to happen from left to right. I am having some trouble making adjustments to the two, however. My preview appeared just as I wanted, but after I rendered a movie (for use in iMovie), it showed the hard letters appearing much too early. I went back to Livetype and moved my fadein effect and exported with no change. I dragged the hard-lettered font further down the timeline (nearly to the point the letters were absurdly late in my preview) and when I rendered the movie, it appeared exactly the same!
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Get the timing the way you want it and then render two movies, one with the Oil characters only and another one with the hard font only. Match them up in your editor instead of trying to do the work in LT. Dunno if you can do that in iMovie all at once but you should be able to bring in the two font tracks, combine them, render them, and export the movie. Import the combined font movie into your main iMovie project.
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