[Andreas Kiel]

I do (did) several title things, a very few generators and some effects.
My non commercial subtitle templates are meanwhile used by several hundreds of happy people. 😉

But there is something I can for sure recommend for everybody playing around with this kind of stuff.

1) In an environment where more than 1 user is involved (regardless if on 1 machine or several) don’t use your new template immediately. Move it to “/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro/Templates.localized/” and the matching subfolder (i.e. Titles.localized). Take care of sub-groups like for example “my Titles”.

2) If you experiment with Motion Templates you should edit the Motion XML and enter a build version (found at <build>). That might help you later to track changes you made across projects.

3) You may enter a theme when saving the template. That could help you to get organized within FCP X.

4) Entering a description can be helpful as well – though you don’t see it in FCP X.

– Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

George,

Download my TitleExchange package.
It includes an app called gRender (free).
Export your subtitle only timeline as XML.
Then import into gRender. The app will create a new XML, an EDL and some more files.
Open the newly created XML in FCP and render out the sequence as image sequence (with alpha). It’s a fast action.
Open the EDL in FCP and reconnect the images.

Though it sounds complicated – it’s not.
The rendered subtitles require way less memory compared to the “generator version”.

– Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

Try to export as XML and re-import.
Also file a bug. There are several oddities with titles.

– Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

Mark,

What version of FCP X are you using?

I saw some issues with 10.0.9. Otherwise it works fine here.
You can’t create a camera archive from those files – for whatever reason.

– Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/25841#25851

– Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

So using shift-z (and scaling down the zoom) using the timeline index and selecting some clips you can build amazing city shapes and skyscraper shapes.
I uploaded one here with all lights switched off (I was a bit fast on doing the screen shots so it’s only about to 2k height).
The contest is to create the highest skyscraper with at least 30 cells on the base (mine is 2048 px at the moment). Underwater (audio) doesn’t count yet, but we could extend the challenge.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63959366/skyScraper.png

Have fun
Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

David Powell on Jul 6, 2014 at 4:06:13 am
I believe you’re referring to a “reverse matchframe”. All the other majors have it. I think common sense dictates that it would function in the active project especially since only one can be open at a time anyway.

I think the same. It should be easy to check whether a selected clip or region is used in the current project. It makes sense as well – especially when there are copyright issues. In latter case you could use the XML but a right-click or similar would be easier.

– Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

Craig,

I understand what you mean. And I feel affected by this issue as but for another reason.

I do like the trackless way of working. I do like roles – I even love them. But for me and my customers there are some disadvantages.

If you assign a title to a clip it by default has a role: “Title” . But it could be a special “Title”, for example “Spanish Sub”. Therefore every time you want to insert one blank title you have to assign a role or copy one which has this role. Both ways waste time.
Now if you assign a dissolve to this (these) titles they will be in a new storyline – still keeping their roles.
To copy all these “Spanish Sub” titles to a new “Spanish Sub Project” you can go to the timeline index select Clip-Titles and filter by “Spanish Sub” role. Then copy and paste into the new project/sequence.

The result is that all your dissolves are lost – dissolves don’t have a role. The only workaround is to go thru the whole timeline and select each single clip to extend the selection. This is a tedious, time consuming action, which in this case will eat up a lot of the time you saved earlier.
In this case using tracks would have been 3 clicks and second to finish compared to trackless with a few hundred clicks and many minutes.

So there is still a lot of room for development.

– Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

Hello Asta,

You may contact me off list at kiel{at}spherico(dot)com

Regards
Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

For PPro you need an app which can create .scc files. There are some out there, but I don’t about a free one.

Another option is to download my TitleExchange app package. There is a free app included called psTitles. This app does use PhotoShop scripting to create a bunch of Layered TIFF files and matching EDLs from a STL text file which can be imported into PPro leaving the text editing functions intact.
STL files can be created with the free app “Jubler”. It works for Mac and Windows,

– Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil