[Andreas Kiel]

Hmmm,

This is not a FCP XML.

Andreas

Spherico
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[Andreas Kiel]

Have a look at the XML and check whether it contains text and what the color is.

Andreas

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[Andreas Kiel]

Kevin,

There is no ‘everything is better than the FCP text tools’.

In Craig’s case Motion should be the choice – it’s far superior in handling than any other solution and quality is perfect.

AE and Photoshop would be quite a pain, LiveType doesn’t exist anymore.
Motion also includes motion to make nice effects with this kind of title. Font, font color, size and so on can be changed for a project or sequence globally – no other app will provide this kind of flexibility.
When it comes to ‘3D’ titles Boris might be a choice or AE or PS with Invigorator or Invigorator as plugin with FCP and again also Motion.
Also TV show openers might be better done with any of the above including Motion same with rolling or scrolling credits.

BUT the FCP renderer for text generators is real good quality and anybody who says ‘No’ is wrong.
All open/transparent FXscript based generators or Motion templates can be handled in a batch process by XML – that’s not possible in that easy way by any of the apps you mentioned.

Bad thing with all these FXscript generators might be that you can’t set kerning by letters or leading by paragraphs or style by paragraph or word. But for example with subtitles these generators will outperform all other solutions by handling and keep a really good quality – that doesn’t mean that you should spot the subtitles within FCP, that could be a another pain, but it would be a real pain if you use AE, PS, Motion etc.
And I know what I’m talking about as several really big companies do use FXscript based generators to laser subtitles into their ‘blockbuster’ movies for theatrical release.

It always depends on your work what tools you use.

And by the way you can nudge any clip within FCP if you got any of the 2 wireframe options enabled, and you should never use the ‘distort’ as it always will lower quality and FCP text generators always render at the correct aspect if you not force them to do something different.

Regards
Andreas

Spherico
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[Andreas Kiel]

Yeah, that’s a great job for Motion.
Create a motion template, save it to the default location, relaunch FCP and type in the values.
You could use use my TitleExchange to enter all data in one single step if you got
a) need to do a lot of those graphics in one sequence
b) a matching text file which contains all the text data.

Andreas

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

[Andreas Kiel]

That’s great Bouke!!!

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[Andreas Kiel]

Just to clarify a bit.
For the automated display of clip names (or other things) you need XML as Andy said and therefore need an app to process and spend some bucks.
For the manual way you can use the TCR Plus filter inside FCP for free.

Regards
Andreas

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[Andreas Kiel]

Uli,

To make sure what your sound recordist has recorded you can use my BWF iXML Reader, its an analysis tool for BWAV files which do have an iXML – most of the newer recorder have implemented that.

Regards
Andreas

Spherico
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[Andreas Kiel]

I also don’t see any reason why the clips shouldn’t be in sync.
You can try my free sequenceLiner, which is very easy to use. With this little app you have an easy way to line up all cameras and the audio. If the audio is drifting in sync, try another import set up for the audio on a fresh project (best thing is to re-launch FCP before) with all other projects closed.

Andreas

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

[Andreas Kiel]

SRT files do look like that:

1
00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,123
This is the first subtitle

2
00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,000
Another subtitle demonstrating tags:

SUB files do look like that:

10:00:02.560,10:00:06.400
cercheremo di capire se lo squalo
bianco è un mangiatore di uomini.

10:00:08.080,10:00:10.240
Di ritorno alle acque
della zona degli squali,

10:00:10.400,10:00:13.560
i ragazzi hanno studiato un modo
per vedere se lo squalo bianco

If you got a finished movie, you should use a spotting app like SubBits or Belle Nuit, if you got your subtitles already in FCP you can use my TitleExchange to convert the subtitles to one of the formats.

Andreas

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

[Andreas Kiel]

Toni,

It’s well known that you will get into trouble with ‘DVDSP conform STLs’ if the hour of the first TC starts with anything other than 00.
So in FCP create a dupe of your sequence, reset the sequence start TC to 0, then split your subtitles into groups of 50 or less into different tracks, export that and use the TEP free version to export each subtitle track to a STL file.
Open all of these files in TextEdit and merge the subtitle entries of them into 1 document in the order of tracks — keep the command and comments of the first file at the top. Pretty easy, but maybe time consuming if you got a lot of subtitles.

And again as said above TEP does not support bitmap subtiltles of any kind.

Regards
Andreas

Spherico
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