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Motion templates – limit on text size? alignment problems?
I have a Motion template with a large Number right in the middle (using it for a countdown). Naturally, I want it to be a dropzone, and reuse it throughout the Final Cut edit. So in the Motion project, it is sized at 544 points. But when I bring the template into Final Cut, the size seems to max out at 288, and the number is all out of alignment, nowhere near where I placed it in Motion. Has anyone else had this problem or know how to fix the template so I get consistent results?
Otherwise, I suppose I could just render dumb .movs for each number…But I want to be able to deploy changes quickly across the entire project. Suggests?
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3 Replies
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Instead of increasing the font size of the text in Motion, increase the scale (Properties tab).
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net -
I’ll give that a shot. Hopefully the text will stay crisp! Thanks for the suggestion.
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Text is vector, it will stay crisp at any size – providing you set the render quality to Best – do it in both Motion and FCP (sequence settings – render control tab).
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net
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