LiveType looks awful IN FCP

[Tom Wolsky]

Please provide the exact project properties of your LiveType project, and the exact item properties of the sequence you’re editing into.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Scott Snyder]

Hi Tom. I’m brand new to both LT and FCP, so please bear w me.
LT Project Props: 720 x 486 / 29.97 Field Dom=none. Pixel aspect = .90 SMPTE Drop.

I’m not sure what you mean by “item properties” of the sequence, but the “sequence settings” are:
720×486 CCIR 601 NTSC 29.97
Render 10-bit material in hi

Is this the info you need? Remember, the LT titles don’t just look awful in Timeline, but in VIEWER as well. Thanks
scott

[Steve Eisen]

Another FAQ. Put your viewer to 100% or to properly view quality, look at it on an external NTSC/Pal monitor (TV set), with the proper hardware of course.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Mitch Ives]

I discovered this the day I installed FCS3. They said you could keep LT, which is true, but it’s no longer useful. Anything created in LT looks like crap in FCP7. It looks fine in previous versions of FCP. You can go into Motion and create the exact same title and it will look fine in FCP7. Go back and duplicate in LT and it looks terrible in FCP7. I’m surprised more people haven’t noticed and reported it.

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com

[Scott Snyder]

Hmmm, very interesting Mitch. That is EXACTLY what I’m doing – using my old LiveType from FCS2 with my new Final Cut Pro from FCS3!
So that’s it then – all LT titles will look bad in FC7?

I haven’t even begun learning Motion yet…can everything that used to be done in LT now be done in Motion? Just as easily? I find LT to be a very very simple program to use, but Motion looks a bit daunting.

[Tom Wolsky]

Try putting the LiveType project inside Motion and putting that into FCP.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Kevin Monahan]

I had the same problem bringing Live Type files into a Final Cut 1080P Apple Pro Res sequence.
This was our fix:

LIve Type creates a Movie that uses the Animation CODEC. This looks fine on its own but when
it is imported into Final Cut and rendered, the text looks Lo Res and jagged. If you first open the
Live Type movies in the Quicktime Player and export them as Apple Pro Res (in our case since that
is the compressor we are using) the resulting movie, when imported into Final Cut looks fine.

[Mitch Ives]

Ours was all P2 720p. Matched LT w/ FCP and still no joy…

Might try some work-a-rounds based on your approach…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com