Lower Thirds from LiveType to imovie09

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.

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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:
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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?

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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.
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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?
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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.

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-L
Message was edited by: Lorna from Hawaii

Lorna from Hawaii wrote:
... there is an option to click SPORTS EDITOR. ... I tried to put a picture in one of those boxes, but the experiment failed.
just drag'n drop from Finder any (... 'any' : shouldn't be a 16MBit monster-sized pic, just a small one, look at the aspect ratio) jpeg into it.
so, what exactly failed?

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When I use the lower third, and have the crop wide open on the left and right, I see a sliver of video on the outside of the Lower Third bar. Is there a way to adjust this? Do I need to use a matte and text rather than Lower Third?
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DG

I thought I'd provide a little follow up. As I was trying to figure out why my STP export wasn't working right, I stumbled into a setting under sequence that led to this problem. My sequence setting was accidently set to NTSC DV 3:2. When I switched to NTSC 4:3, the screen tightened up ever so slightly, and the gap on the edges of the bar disappeared. Also, the resolution of the type and graphics within the Lower Third when from jagged to perfect!
DG

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Thanks...I do see those. I gather it's not possible to adjust the transparency of the background (i.e. to make a black more or less 'see through' or change from black or white to a different hue. I'll check out "soft bar." That might do it.
I'm posting a link to a video that has something I really like -- at 3:02 to 3:06 in this video by Bob Krist on Vimeo
http://www.vimeo.com/25645879. There's even a little flag blowing at the right. (I don't need that, however)
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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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