FCP7: Film Frame Text

[Jared Hawco]

It will just be text on top of Super 8 footage, that’s why I want to try to replicate that look. I wasn’t sure if FCP was capable but I figured this was a good place to start. My Super 8 footage still has the sprocket hole on the left, if possible I would like the text to also appear as if you are seeing “through” the film.

[Jared Hawco]

I have already placed the transparent, off-white area from the sprocket hole inside my text using the alpha travel matte. But, the text edges are still sharp, if I could soften the edges and add that glow to make it look like film it would satisfy my needs.

Either way thanks for the speedy replies, I will have to try my luck in the Motion forum.

[Nick Meyers]

you can try the various BLUR filters that FCP offers:
basic gaussian blur, or one of the de-focus effects.

the bloom filter in the “stylize” family of filters may be useful, i think,

i also think that you might need more than one layer of text,
so de-focus the top layer,
and a stronger defocus (ro bloom??) on the bottom layer, for your orange edges.

good luck,
nick

[Roger Poole]

I’m not completely sure of your intentions here but it would be relatively easy to create this in Photoshop, with any required areas of transparency and a text glow to give the color fringe. If you don’t have, or use Photoshop, ask someone who does.

[Mark Suszko]

Getting the font right will be important. Clip out a sample of that “E”, turn it upright, and try it in “What the font”. Or google search “Eastman Kodak film edge font” and see what comes up.

Bloom effect under the “glows” settings may indeed work. You might also try doubling or tripling the layers of the same letter, and playing with drop shadow settings, adding a little red to the black and adjusting the blurs, then changing the compositing or “blend” modes, and the opacity of the layers.