Title Scroll: Photoshop settings for FCP

[Walter Biscardi]

Take it into photoshop,

Flatten the image

Change the Image Size to 1280 wide to match your 720p timeline. Be sure to “Maintain Image Proportions or whatever that checkbox says so you don’t change the aspect of the timeline.

This will create a text file the same width as your timeline.

Now bring that into FCP and try the crawl.

If it’s still too wide, make the width small enough in Photoshop to accomodate the correct width. I find scaling down files in Photoshop to work better than scaling them in FCP.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Arnie Schlissel]

You’ll need to use AE or Combustion to do this. You won’t be able to do this in FCP or Motion because both of those apps are limited to no more than 4096 pixels in either direction.

And while you’re at it, make sure you make the orange broadcast safe!

Arnie
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[Les Kaye]

Thanks Walter & Arnie. Since this project MIGHT end up with theatrical distribution, would I be better off using AE in terms of ending up with the best results in terms of picture quality?

-L

http://www.leskaye.net

[Bob Flood]

LES

WOT IS UP!

Can’t you just copy the titles over to tilemotion and ….whoops! forgot we are past that (ha ha ha)

AE will always give you the best results, because you have more control over the various aspects you need. I find FCP to be limitied in a lot of the graphic/text manipulation areas, so i am getting better and better at AE (next week i am gonna try Masks! 🙂 )

and AE really is resolution independent. AND i would follow walters advice about making the crawl as wide as your comp.

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.