[Andreas Kiel]

Hmm

My reply doesn’t show up

What to do?

[Andreas Kiel]

Don‘t forget:

The project settings have to be ProRes 4444!

Otherwise no alpha channel with any codec.

[Andreas Kiel]

These 1200 dpi is standard for “line art & graphics” while 300 dpi (and even lower like 210 dpi) is standard for offset printing of photos. So any professional scanner had 1200 dpi at least.

It’s quite easy to understand. Imagine those old Apple LaserWriter Plus, their print output had been 300 dpi. That had been an amazing quality for text/graphics that time – but still way behind the typo quality needed for the glossy magazines. Nothing has changed since.

BTW a 4-color print with 300 dpi has about 1200 dpi since the printing angle for each color is different.

So 300 dpi from any film/video is fine and sufficient.

[Andreas Kiel]

As mentioned above a Blackmagic UltraStudio Mini or Blackmagic UltraStudio mini 4k would do the job

A used old MacBook with FireWire could work as well.

If quality matters I would prefer the UltraStudio since the Apple FW conversion/codec isn’t the very best.

[Andreas Kiel]

https://softron.tv/products/record/movierecorder-express

[Andreas Kiel]

Hi both

You can send me a few Euros thru PayPal for this crash course in FCP basics 🤣

A text layer (text box) is part of a Motion Title, Motion Generator etc. Any Motion Template can contain one or more of those. Each of them does have it’s own (base) position which can be changed individually. This can be done in the Inspector’s Text pane or sometimes in the Inspector’s Title pane. Since every developer can do whatever (s)he wants there is no common sense how and where position is addressed – means no batch change.

And that’s a good thing. imagine you got a title with 2 text entries: Headline, Subline. Setting both entries to the same position would render everything to garbage.

BUT you are probably not talking about text layers, you are talking about titles or generators. These are assets same as video (or video/audio) clips. To move, scale, distort or whatever a video clip you would use the Inspector’s Video pane. You can apply those settings to 1000s at a time.

So why not use that with titles/generators???

My idea is to pay me 10 cent for each title/generator you batch moved this way 😂😎

[Andreas Kiel]

Hi Jeremy,

This new format (package) probably was introduced to keep XMLs small and simple while introducing all this new tracking stuff. Latter can create huge amount of data.

This is also valid for other effects data.

So it’s not a real change of format – the XMLs are the same format – but an extension to keep data collections together.

To get a standard XML version export a 1.9 one or just drag whatever you need – project, event, library etc – from the FCP browser either to the Desktop, TextEdit, BBEdit or similar app which supports drag’n drop from clipboard.

[Andreas Kiel]

Unfortunately there’s no easy way as far as I know

If you’re a Mac user you may have a look here

http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/Utilities/CaptionsAndText/UCT/index.html

Or here:

http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/S4T/index.html

Both are free.

[Andreas Kiel]

It simply looks like either the region isn’t wide enough or font size is to big.

Captions /subtitles source files in Resolve normally do not include any font instructions.

[Andreas Kiel]

How did you export captions from FCPX i.e. which format?

How dos your exported file look?