Adding graphic elements to Title Crawl? Can it be done?

[Tom Wolsky]

You could try and animate the logo on another track to match the speed of the crawl. It would probably be pretty tedious to set up though.

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

[David Smith]

I know your question asked about Boris and FCP, however you might be interested in this plug-in from CHV:

https://www.chv-plugins.com/credits.html

I haven’t tried it, but image capability is one of his marketing points.

David

[Ron James]

Thanks, Tom and David.

I’ll check out the plugin. I think trying to match the logo crawl with the text might drive me batty, but I’ll do that as a last resort.

Thanks again for the ideas.

James

[Tom Matthies]

Just make the crawl in PhotoShop with the logo(s) right in as part of the graphic, put it on the timeline at the proper size, add two keyframes to move it across the screen and there you go! Very simple.
Tom

[Bret Williams]

A lot of folks don’t think about it, but FCP was orginally designed to be akin to After Effects, and if you think that way then you will have an easier time compositing. The title crawl with logo for example. I’m not sure just how long your crawl is, so it may not apply, but since you mentioned photoshop, I figure it can’t be that long. Try making a comp that is insanely wide and extremely short. Whatever the limit is. 3000×40 or something like that. Then just use the regular text tool to make a long line of text. Then stick your logo on another layer above where it needs to be. Just like AE or PS. Then drop that comp into your regular comp and animate it.

[Ron James]

Tom, thanks for the advice, but I’ve done rolls in PhotoShop and won’t try it again. It was really a pain (for me, anyway) and looked like crap no matter what I did. Might just be the DV25 compression. What really drove me nuts, though, was having to go back to PS everytime I needed to make a change, then digging through the tons of text layers.

There’s got to be a way to do this in FCP.

[Ron James]

Bret, yeah that makes sense and I thought of doing this but I sure like the generators for easy adjustments. I’ll try this, though and see how it goes.

I guess I meant to say text “roll,” not “crawl.” Sorry about that.

Thanks a lot!

[Bret Williams]

Do you realize you can place the ps file on the timeline as a sequence and everytime you update the ps file it updates automatically in FCP?

Did you also know that there pretty much is only 1 speed at which a roll is useable? Check adamwilt.com for more info. To change the speed, you generally want to change the leadng and font size, not the actual speed the pixels are moving. The basic gist is that you need to move your roll 120 pixels per second exactly.

Doing it with PS correctly should produce zero noticeable artifacts in DV.

And before, why did you have to dig through text layers? There is no need for more than one text layer for a title roll. You can use as many fonts and sizes and styles and colors as you like in a single text layer in photoshop. So for this exercise you’d have one text layer and one graphic. Two layers.

[Tom Wolsky]

How do you get it to go exactly 120 pixels per second in FCP?

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

[Joe Paolo]

Don’t forget about Motion. Very easy to add text and gfxs to a layer and animate it as one piece.

joe