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5.1.4 Possible Problem
I just noticed some odd behavior with 5.1.4. I created some text in LiveType, saved it, and brought it into FCP. It looked normal until I rendered it. Yuk! So I created the same text with the same font & same size in Title 3D, brought it in and rendered, and it looks fine. Motion Filtering Quality is set to Best, but changing the setting doesn’t seem to make any difference. I’ve done a lot of successful work in Live Type, so I don’t think it’s anything I’m doing wrong.
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[Chris Babbitt] “I just noticed some odd behavior with 5.1.4. I created some text in LiveType, saved it, and brought it into FCP. It looked normal until I rendered it. Yuk! So I created the same text with the same font & same size in Title 3D, brought it in and rendered, and it looks fine. Motion Filtering Quality is set to Best, but changing the setting doesn’t seem to make any difference. I’ve done a lot of successful work in Live Type, so I don’t think it’s anything I’m doing wrong.”
Can you tell us exactly what you used? While un-scientific, I just did a quick test of Livetype in 5.1.4 on the Intel MBP, and it appears to be fine.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro 5
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I am on an Intel machine also. It might have something do do with the font. I haven’t tried a different font, but I did several titles in this project with the same font and they all looked bad coming from Live Type.
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[Chris Babbitt] “I am on an Intel machine also. It might have something do do with the font. I haven’t tried a different font, but I did several titles in this project with the same font and they all looked bad coming from Live Type.
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I did my quickie est on an Intel MBP C2D, since it’s what I had with me…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro 5
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OK, I did some further testing. It happens when I reposition the text in the canvas and render. I don’t recall this being a problem in the past with Live Type text. Only when using the FCP text generator.
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[Chris Babbitt] “It happens when I reposition the text in the canvas and render.”
You’re probably causing the fields to reverse. If you’re using Live Type, why don’t you position the text there?
Arnie
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Good point! I guess Live Type files don’t behave the same as Title 3D files when you move them around.
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If you had exported interlaced from LiveType, when you reposition you must do it an even number of pixels up or down. If you export progresive you can set them whrere you want.
Cheers,
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I already tried the even # of pixels. It didn’t make any difference.
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Are you exporting from LiveType or just importing the project?
Any positional changes to the text or the LT project should be made inside LiveType.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs
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That’s where I messed up. I thought it worked before. You can position Title 3D text inside FCP, but apparently not LiveType.
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