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Importing Text for Titles
I’m hoping someone has a shortcut (I’ve searched the forums with no luck.)
I have a list of several hundred names that I want to display one at a time on the screen. I’d like to treat them as individual clips (I plan on nesting them into another a sequence) – my basic idea is to have a name center screen really small then scale up in size before fading out, then start the next one, etc. I’m trying to avoid having to type in the names one at a time. Is there a way to automate this process (I have LiveType and Motion, but am inexperienced with those apps).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated (or knowing that it’s not possible, so I can start typing away!).
Thanks!
Boyd
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[boydmcc] “I’m trying to avoid having to type in the names one at a time.”
What form is the list in NOW?
If it was created in a word processor, you can “Copy-and-Paste” from that into FCP Title 3D or LiveType or…
But one of the fastest ways I can think of to do this is…
In Title 3D:
Create the first one of these.
Make it exactly the style and LENGTH you want each name-clip to be.
Add the Ramp-in (fade-up), “Zoom-in”, and Ramp-down (Fade-out) by using keyframes in the Motion Tab.
Render it, and “check it” to be SURE it is what you want.
When satisfied, drag this completed clip back to the Browser (rename it so you’ll know where it is) then drag it into the Viewer and Edit it, over and over, into a new timeline (until you have the correct number of name-clips that you need).Then, one at a time, click each successive clip back into the Viewer and Copy-and-Paste a new name on each new clip until you’ve remade them all.
Render the timeline.This Copy-and-Paste will take a very long time.
But if you want to treat EACH NAME as an individual effect, “long and complex” is the name of this game. -
[Matte] “But if you want to treat EACH NAME as an individual effect, “long and complex” is the name of this game.”
May I add tedious to that list? 😉
It does make me think that there must be an easier way to do this. Like a batch action via automator or XML. Create a template and have an automated process churn through a spreadsheet.Kevin Monahan
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Email the manufacturers and ask them.
Wayne
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I’ll look into Automator and I downloaded Traffic – I’ll need to spend a little time on both to see whether they can help me out.
I did find a workaround of sorts. All the names are in a word file (and excel), so I copied them into a powerpoint slide and used the outline tool to put one line of text to one slide. I made the background black and the text white saved the slides as individual jpegs (it even created a folder to put them all in). I then brought the folder into FCP, and used one of the slides as a template to crop the background, position it, etc. and then pasted the attributes to all the other slides. Not perfect or pretty but functional.
Thanks all for you help. I may cross post to Motion or another forum – the eternal optimist in me hopes that this type of situation has come up before somewhere and someone has written a plugin or script to handle it.
Thanks!
Boyd
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[Matte] “But if you want to treat EACH NAME as an individual effect”
Hey Matt,
is there a way to do this as a list of names in one title, applying the effect to the list, not individual names? Instead of a crawl or a roll, bring in each line in a similar fashion as outlined above – where you can choose where each line begins in the frame and what happens, before it brings in the next line?
Thanks! (I do more documentary/narrative editing, so my titling/graphics skills are pretty weak to say the least).
Boyd
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