Long or short lower thirds from Motion?

I have a lower third design all set in Motion to introduce the songs in a music video. I'm not sure of the consequences of my decision here. Do I:
1) Make one long Motion file with all 11 song intros spaced accordingly.
2) Make 11 small (6 second) individual files.
3) Import the individual and duplicate in FCP.
I vote for option #2, unless...
1. You confident that all verbiage is final
2. The order and timing of your clips (that are to be synced to these lower thirds) is locked
3. You can afford the potentially longer render time

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I'm creating a lower third in Motion and importing into FCP X, but the alpha channel is gone when I import into FCP. What am I doing wring?

I'm trying to export from Motion 5 with an alpha channel, but in FCP X the alpha is gone. What do I do?

if you're exporting video animation out of Motion and you need transparency, then you need to make sure that the codec used is ProRes 4444. There are no other options. From the Share > Export dialog, the default Export option is usually "Same as Source." In Motion, that *should* be PR4x4. You can double check that setting by clicking the summary button and reading the last line.
You also need to make sure under the Render section that Color + Alpha is selected (that should also be the default setting.)
However, most of all, you're really wasting your time going about it this way. If you started a Title project in Motion, all you have to do is Save and give the project a Name; pick a category or create a new one. In FCPX, in the Titles browser, look for the category you used and find the project name and drag it onto the storyline.
You have the option of picking parameters in your motion project that you can "publish" to FCPX (things like the lower third background color, text color, positioning, etc... almost every parameter is publishable to FCPX allowing you to customize the project *inside* FCPX.) Any parameter you publish in Motion will be in the Title Inspector in FCPX. You do not have to "bake" your lower third in Motion before using it in FCPX. You can pretty much turn your project into an FCPX plugin.
If you didn't start a Title project, you can still build your lower third as an FCPX Generator. Go to the File menu and Publish Template... In the dialog box, make sure you check Publish As Final Cut Generator. Give the project a Name and select a category (you'll need to wait a few seconds until the Categories update to the FCPX categories...) You can create a custom category if you like and save the project. In FCPX, instead of the Titles browser, look for your template/plugin in the Generators > WhateverCategory > YourLowerThird.

How to create a lower third in motion

I want to create a lower third in motions just like the ones that iMovie 08 has with a fade effect into it.
can anyone help me on this or is there a video tutorial on this thank you

Hey man, have you made ANY progress? You're asking for help, and I basically TOLD you how to do it. No luck? Do you want me to make it for you? Should I charge at my "friends and family" rate?
Again, bro, just make a rectangle and mask it with a gradient, set the mask on luminosity. Done. Also make sure your project settings have a transparent background, not solid.
Overlay that .motn on any video. Done.
Not trying to be a jerk, but it's almost comedic...
You haven't posted anything about problems you're running into. Got any screen shots of what you're ending up with? What is your specific problem here.

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I am making lower thirds from the LiveType templates and would like to use in previously made projects in imovie09. When I import the template as a mov file, I can't get it to work like the titles in imovie - it simply covers up the whole clip. If I import as a jpeg, iphoto does not recognize it at all. Can you please advise?

When you build your LiveType effects, save the project file (it has a .ipr ending) and import it into FCE.
Place it on a higher track than your live action video. It will composite automatically. The .ipr can be treated exactly as if it were a video clip -it can be cut, transitioned etc
You can then got to the File > Export dialog and make a self contained movie that can be used in iMovie -this means you would export to either DV or Apple Intermediate for use with HDV or AVCHD material.

Exporting Lower Thirds from AE CC 12.2 to be used in Premiere

hi everyone,
I'm currently in the trial versions of adobe AE and Premiere for Mac. I'm stuck...trying to troubleshoot whether AE or/and Premiere is not properly set up.
I have dug up so many youtube tutorials and forum posts on how to export lower thirds with alpha channel from AE... and everyone has the same solution,
Here is my lower third on AE, as you can see it is transparent:
Export using the following settings as everyone has taught:
Import into Premiere, I layer it over my footage and it just doesn't show up...like it is not there.
Yet, the footage preview shows the lower third, but my preview doesn't...
Anyone know what is wrong?
I downloaded a free web-based sample lower thirds quicktime (Created with: Adobe After Effects CS5.5 10.5 Windows 64)
to test if all lower thirds don't work...sample works perfect... therefore, I conclude that it has to be that my mac AE is exporting in a format that Premiere can't show properly.
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks

Rome-mulus wrote:
Anyone else have any ideas?
Just one: what are the dimensions of your Premiere Pro sequence?
You have rendered at 1280x720 from After Effects. If your Premiere Pro sequence is smaller, such as 720x480, the problem would be that your lower-thirds graphic is offscreen due to the difference in frame sizes. If this is the case, you can scale the lower-thirds clip in Premiere Pro to the smaller size.

Quick way to create Lower thirds from Spreadsheet

Maybe everyone knows this already since it came out when I was away from the forums, but I searched the Premiere Pro forums for the word "spreadsheet" and got no related results, so here goes....
There is a way to type all of your information for lower thirds, or titles of any kind for that matter, including the kind of sub titles that are actually on the video itself, into a spreadsheet and using variables, create as many Photoshop PSD files to be imported into Premiere Pro as you wish.
It is brilliant. Simply brilliant.
Download the sample project and the PDF of the instructions. They ask for your name and e-mail address so that they can lock the PDF to one person (another good trick) to avoid people sharing. They want you to see the info about the book. But this chapter if free. And brilliant. Simply brilliant. But I guess I said that already.
http://premierepro.net/editing/spreadsheets-to-lower-thirds/

Well, I know what I would do if I needed to do such a thing.
The programming language in Microsoft Excel is extremely powerful. It is a version of Visual Basic and can easily manipulate text files. So I would open a PRTL file, change the text and save it as the next title. Then I would repeat for every line in the spreadsheet.
To make this easy, after formatting your first title, change the text to something simple, and export it to a PRTL file - and always use the same text and same title name to make writing the macro easier. Then just cycle through the rows of the spreadsheet. I haven't done this in ages, but I suppose I could give it a go if I had the proper motivation.
But why? Why not use Photoshop?

Exporting Lower Third from FCP for Media 100 use

I'm exporting out a lower third for someone else to use in Media 100. It is set to alpha+RGB. The exported QT file has a black background that I assumed would be keyed out once brought in to Media 100 and layered over an interview, but it's all black. Is it something I'm doing wrong in FCP or on the other end in Media 100?
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You need to use the Animation Codec with colors set to Millions+ (the "+" is your alpha channel) also, you should make sure your lower third is not rendered.
Patrick

How can I add text to a Lower Third mov

I have downloaded a few lower thirds from a website and they download as .mov files.
I am trying to add text to them and lay them over some product spotlight videos for my work.
I was thinking that they were going to be in template form but they are not.
What is the best way to add text to these .mov lower third files?
I just have to create my own animation for the text to follow along the lower third?

> I just have to create my own animation for the text to follow along the lower third?
Yes, that seems to be the case.

Using a lower third video file

I have been putting lower thirds on my video without any trouble. My lower thirds have been jpeg images. I simple drag them onto the timeline and they lay right over my main video.
My trouble now is, I've just obtained an animated lower third that is not a picture file, but a movie file. When I lay it on the time line it doesn't lay on top of my main video, but rather blanks it out.
I tried the video merge option, but it leaves some moving black pixels around the lower third image.
How can I lay one video (my lower third video image) over my main video?
Thanks,
Matthew

Hi Matthew,
Sounds like the video doesn't have a transparent background.
What format is the file? It should be Uncompressed AVI to work well in Premiere Elements.
The video needs to have preserved the transparent Alpha channel.
We have many of these types of lower thirds and motion backgrounds at muvipix.com and I have created many of them myself.
Depending on what format the file is will tell us something that may help.

File Error: Unknown File when trying to render a Motion Lower third

I'm getting this: "File Error: Unknown File" when trying to render a Lower third made in the Motion tab. I'm using FCP 6.0.6 and haven't had any issues with this before. It seems to work fine if there is just text, but as soon as I apply any effect, like a drop shadow, I get that error message.
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Joe

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Video layer under lower third dropping out during share from Final Cut X

I am having a problem when I "Share" an H264 video file or when I upload directly to Youtube. The Video that is under my lower thirds sometimes does not get output. The video is there and plays fine when I hit the spacebar but when I "share" the project in some of the places where I have a lower 3rd the video is missing with on the the lower third being visible over black. Any audio in the video is also missing. Re-rendering often fixes the problem but it a real pain in an half hour show when I am crunched for time.
Is anyone else having a problem like this and what is the solution?

This really seems to be a problem with some corrupt render files.
Delete render files, turn off background render and do not rerender before export.
Also, export to your hard drive first, then use the browser to upload. That way you have a chance to make sure it is all ok, rather than wait for the upload and conversion on youtube and then realize it came up wrong.

Reason code for short payment received from Customers

Hello
We are on ECC 6.0 without application of any enhancement package.
Requirement is to capture reasons of short payment received from customer and generate a report based on such reason codes.
Reasons of short payment received could be - Adhoc payment; Excess billed; Tax deducted at source (TDS) on freight / service charges and Bank charges etc.
Let me know relevant configuration required.
Would reason codes be captured during incoming payment entry or customer account clearing?
Thanks.
Vimal, India

Hi Vimal
Following is the configuration for Reason code for customer payments. It can be short payment, over payment or discount not allowed.
First step is to define reason code. You do this in Financial Accounting (New >Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable>Incoming Payments>Incoming Payments Global Settings>Overpayment/Underpayment>Define Reason Codes
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The second step is to define accounts for payment difference.
Financial Accounting (New >Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable>Incoming Payments>Incoming Payments Global Settings>Overpayment/Underpayment>Define Accounts for Payment Differences
Assign G/L accounts against reason codes.
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Financial Accounting (New >Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable>Incoming Payments>Incoming Payments Global Settings>Overpayment/Underpayment>Define Reason Code Conversion Version
In this step, you make the default settings you need for the manual incoming payment processing via payment advice notes. If differences between the payment advice item and the total of the allocated open items occur after selecting the open items, you can enter a reason code in the payment advice item. This represents the reason for the reduction of the payment amount specified by the paying person.
Create version 001 and name for it.
For correspondence type create or assign relevant form and print program in global settings> correspondence
Once you have these settings you can insert appropriate reason code while clearing customer open item .
You can print correspondence via T-ode F.62 on a monthly basis or wekly basis.
Hope this helps.
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When I export to AME (cc) my lower thirds keep shifting position.

It looks fine on Premiere CC in my time line. Its all in place even in the export window its aligned with my logo and text. But the as soon as I send it to AME and start rendering it shifts to the side and its no longer aligned with the text and logo. Its driving me nuts! I've had to shift the lower third a few spaces for it to match on the render but its off on my timeline now. its Please help!

Can you provide some more details? Are you patched to 7.0.2? What version of Windows?
I think this has been reported previously. What font(s) are involved? Does it continue to happen if the font is changed, or if the text is removed from the frame (give it some color so you can see the frame position)?
It would be great if you could show us a screen capture from the ID file (show non-printing characters) and the same area from the PDF. You can use the camera icon to embed the screen caps in a post:

Bottom edge of border of lower third changes colour on render

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Adobe Pr Pro CS3 system
I am not at my machine so please forgive if I haven't got the exact terminology correct, but the essence of my query does not change.
I am doing some "lower thirds" (banners) in the titler for a DVD of a music concert. Basically I'm creating a rectanglar box filled with near-opacity black and adding text on top of this. The black rectanglar box has its left and right edges outside the screen area so are not relevant. However, I have added a coloured edge to the top of bottom of the "banner" (I think this is an outer stroke with size 3.0) The thing is, it looks fine on screen, but when the video is rendered, the lower edge of the box has changed colour. It was originally a yellow/gold (as the top still is) but the bottom is now a pinkier shade.
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Thanks in advance.
Daniel

The footage with lower third was rendered to a new AVI within Premiere and imported. The colour change then appears on whatever system is used to view it (even the new render on the timeline shows it), on screen, preview monitor, subsequent DVD burned from Encore, etc.
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