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  Posted by Saya Hillman on February 2, 2006 at 9:23 pm

  Hello!

  Any tips for text within FCP?

  Whenever I have text more substantial than a title, like credits, a letter, or a story, it’s often hard to read/fuzzy/out of focus/inconsistent in quality, especially if I use Title Crawl to scroll.

  I usually add deinterlace and flicker filters.

  Should I be creating the text outside of FCP and importing it? Then how do I get it to scroll?

  MUCH thanks for any advice,
  April

  Saya Hillman replied 20 years, 3 months ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  Tad Newberry

  February 2, 2006 at 9:36 pm

  Hi April,

  There are a couple ways within FCP, but for more advanced stuff, go to Motion or Live Type (though i think LiveType is virtually completely contained within Motion). anyway in FCP…

  go into your Effects bin in your browser. then to Video Generator / Text / Crawl (or Scrolling Text). you can do more advanced stuff from right within FCP by going to Effects/Vid Gen/Boris. play around in there for awhile! : ) another way to get to all of the above text thingies is in your Viewer, click on the bottom right button and you’ll access the same stuff.

  i hope this helps, or hopefully i haven’t restated the obvious for you!

  thanks for helping out a bonehead,

  jtn
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  Tad Newberry

  February 2, 2006 at 9:37 pm

  p.s. you wouldn’t happen to be from New Orleans, would you????

  thanks for helping out a bonehead,

  jtn
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  Todd Reid

  February 2, 2006 at 9:50 pm

  one quick tip for text within FCP is to make sure your text is on even & whole numbers.

  under the motion tab, the center fields should be, for example 2, 4, rather than 1.34, -13.6.
  Mostly just the horizontal, but I keep em both even/whole when possible.

  Doesn’t fix everything, but I’ve found it does look much better.
  Ironically I’ve found that LiveType files look better when you break this rule and place them at 0, -1.

  Anyone know why?
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  Michelle De long

  February 2, 2006 at 10:08 pm

  I have the same issue with flicker and interlacing on scrolling text. It is maddening.

  We even tried AE and still the same issue.

  MADDENING.
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  Chris Poisson

  February 2, 2006 at 10:32 pm

  Michelle,

  I have never had these issues, except that in AE movies usually stutter until you render them and put them in your NLE, where they play smooth. At least that’s what I find. Make sure all your settings match.

  Have a wonderful day.
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  Saya Hillman

  February 4, 2006 at 1:37 am

  Thanks for all the suggestions guys, I’ll try them out.

  (and no, I’m not from New Orleans)

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