text generator confusion

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

WHICH text generator did you use?

[Chris Borjis]

use the boris 3D text generator.

It acts kinda like a word processor.

[Paul Colin]

I used the following path: Video Generators>Text>text
This is the one that creates a text field without animation etc.

thanks

PC

[Paul Colin]

But , but Borjis… not all of us have the Boris 3D plug-in… or am I missing something.

thanks

PC

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

[PAUL COLIN] “not all of us have the Boris 3D plug-in… or am I missing something.”

Yes, you are missing something.

Title 3D (from Boris) is INCLUDED with all FCP versions since 3 or 4.

Anyone buliding titles using the FCP “native” title generators
and not Title 3D is “missing the boat”.

[Paul Colin]

Thanks Thax
I come from a motion graphics background and have always used AE for titles.
But for simple down & dirty stuff Boris 3D will work.
I never even thought to look for it in FCP.

thanks again!

PC

[Kevin Monahan]

Yeah. But don’t use that one. Use Boris as we have said for better quality.

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[Paul Colin]

Thanks Kevin
I checked out the Boris titler (3D as well as the crawl/roll generator) and was underwhelmed.
The type was aliased to some degree and the roll was rather jumpy (after rendering)
For a static title there’s nothing like photoshop and AE for animation I guess.

thanks for your help

PC

[Kevin Monahan]

I don’t see any problem with Boris stuff. Are you sure you are monitoring at Safe RT and High quality (Not dynamic) and on a production monitor? It’s as good as any titling I’ve ever seen.

Kevin Monahan
Take My FCP Master’s Workshop!
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[Paul Colin]

Kevin
You’re right!
I didn’t have the continuously raster box checked in the roll/crawl text options window checked.
It’s a beautiful thing!

thanks again

PC