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Third Party Scrolling Text
Anyone know of a good scrolling text application. I’m working on feature film credits with an insane amount of text that seems to bog down even my MacPro tower. So anytime I try and make a tiny little change, it takes forever.
Unless I’m doing something wrong in After Effects, it’s the slowest in that, even at 1/4 resolution.
I’ve come too far on this feature to be ruined by credits. Any suggestions?
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4 Replies
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mmmmmm. Which text tool are you using? Text? or the Boris tool? Neither is really fast, but might make sure you enter text with the Boris tool with all of the styles turned off. They’ll still be there, but it does update a lot faster when these are turned off on a temp basis. To do this select “draft typing” in the lower left popup in the text entry window.
Also might open ram up a bit by putting this roll in it’s own timeline and closing all others. That should help some too.
Jerry
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I’ve gotten around this before by doing the credits in Photoshop. I open up a new project with an insanely long canvas window. (480 x several thousand pixels “tall” at times) I just make one very large graphic, import it into FCP and add keyframes to roll the titles at the correct speed. Worth a try plus you can utilize all of the styles and features of Photoshop to compose the credits including embedding logos within the credits.
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Photoshop or Illustrator are great for creating the text pages. After Effects will create and absolutely crystal clear and lossless alpha file with frame and field blending and motion blur.
But, depending on the format in which you are editing and releasing, rendering in FCP is still going to be an issue for you and your producers.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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I found the plug-in from CHV to be very good.
Ken Stone gives his opinion here: https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/review_chv_text_v4_stone.html
It truly is a great add-on for me and works fantastically.
David
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