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animated titles in FCP 4.5
I’m using text generator to do some simple titles, that slowly grow in size (to apprea like they are approaching the viewer) But FCP renders them horribly. they are jumpy and flickery. Is there a way to avoid this in FCP?
Even when I take the animation out of the titles, they are not quite as shape as they could be. I tried a de-interlace filter and that didn’t help at all. Any ideas? thanks
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5 Replies
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Make sure they are starting and ending on an even, whole number in the motion tab 121,124 not 121,124.23. You can also try moition and live type for this sort of thing with better results.
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Are you viewing your video on an external NTSC (or PAL) monitor?
If you’re only looking at the canvas, then you’re not seeing everything. The canvas can de degraded to as much as 75%, showing you only a quarter of the information going out the FW port to your external monitor.
Check out the manual for proper video and audio monitoring setups.
debe
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What property are you animating? Do not animate the font size property in the titler. Animate the scale in the motion tab.
Best way would actually use the boris titler and animate the distance property. It will scale it in z space, which means they will appear to get faster as they get closer, as they would in reality.
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this is also what i’ve always experienced with FCP prior to FCP 5. The reason is that before 5, FCP didn’t do subpixel rendering. So you either need to blur, do it in livetype or do it AfterEffects. AfterEffects also have a nice automatic motion blur that renders quickly.
If you set your sequence to progressive (no field) it will behave much better, but of course everything rendered will be progressive.
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Use the 3D text tool and animate from the controls panel, NOT the motion tab. This is a vector tool and can be zoomed to fill the frame with no pixelization.
joe
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