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justification issue in Boris titler
This is something that has annoyed me for awhile, but I finally have a project where it is a real pain and would love to find the solution.
In the Boris Caligraphy titler (aka Boris Title 3D) when I select left justified, it is left justified in the boris workspace, but when I close that and bring it in to FCP it is centered within the clip. furthermore, when I copy and paste the clip, open it and change the text, then hit “apply” the clip adjusts so it does not keep the left edge. therefore with multiple title clips, supposedly all being left justified, I have to manually adjust every title to the position where I want it.
Is there some way to fix this so that once I set a title left justified, no matter how many times I change it the left border is always the same position?
very frustrating…
thanks,
Mike
Michael V. Williams
producer/editor
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[Michael Williams] “Is there some way to fix this so that once I set a title left justified, no matter how many times I change it the left border is always the same position? “
No. At least, not that I know of as it will change places depending on the length of your text. It’s not the justification, it’s the anchor point. While Title 3D is ok, it would be nice if FCP had a real titler. Like After Effects text. It’s such a joy.
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that’s what I thought. bummer. thanks for confirming. and yes…a kick-ass built-in titler a la AE would make my decade.
Michael V. Williams
producer/editor
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Have you had a look at the tile tool in Motion? I have been meaning to play with it but I have seen a tutorial that indicates it might be better than Boris and it can import justification and layout from doc files
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yes. I use it from time to time, but it’s not as convenient as something built-in to FCP. It will keep the justifications correct, but it’s an outside program (even though it’s connected).
mike
Michael V. Williams
producer/editor
http://www.vernonvision.com -
Boris is unfortunately very quirky and limited. In Title 3D I move the Position X/Y mark to wherever is needed on the canvas. The clip can then be copied, pasted, and edited – the position will stay exactly the same. If possible, you could use Title Crawl which will keep the text left or right justified on the timeline as well as in Boris.
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Miriam-
good idea about using crawl. I’ll have to try that. However, I’ve done things the other way you suggest and when I do that, the center position of the title stays the same but the left and right edge changes depending on the length of the title.
mike
Michael V. Williams
producer/editor
http://www.vernonvision.com -
[Michael Williams] “However, I’ve done things the other way you suggest and when I do that, the center position of the title stays the same but the left and right edge changes depending on the length of the title.”
Exactly. As I said before, there’s no anchor point on the text, so Boris simply centers it depending on the width by changing the anchor point, but that point isn’t adjustable. Simply, position stays the same, anchor point changes depending on width of text.
edited for legibility, sorry about that
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so is there an easy way to adjust the anchor point so that the left or right edge is always in the exact same spot? or do you have to adjust the anchor point based on the lenght of the title?
mike
Michael V. Williams
producer/editor
http://www.vernonvision.com -
[Michael Williams] “so is there an easy way to adjust the anchor point so that the left or right edge is always in the exact same spot? “
That’s whay I’m saying, there’s no “anchor point” adjustment in the title 3d filter, unforutantely. Or at least I haven’t found it.
Jeremy
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