[Martin Nelson]

Dave and Jamie,

That should, at least for one watermark. I’m assuming I can do this as I’m compressing a reference file? At least I’d save a step.

Martin

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[Martin Nelson]

[Larry Asbell] “Hi Martin,

I think if you set the margins (in the second tab) to define you text area that may do it for you.

– Larry Asbell”

Hey Larry,

How are things in DC?

Sorry, I didn’t see your response until this morning. I’ve just tried messing with the margins in that second tab and I can’t see that anything has happened to the text in any way. Within the Boris Title 3D window, adjusting the left margin does push the text right, but once I leave this window the text hasn’t moved in the Viewer or Canvas. Shrinking the page width to have the default does push the text to the middle of the screen, but not to the right.

Hmmm,

Martin

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[Martin Nelson]

Thanks Patrice. I’ll try it out if the other method doesn’t work out. I’m not sure if I can type on with Crawl.

Martin

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[Martin Nelson]

[Tom Wolsky] “It shouldn’t recenter in the X axis if you use a center tab to position the left aligned text with text wrapping”

Thanks, Tom. That did work as far as the X axis is concerned. It took me a while (once I finally had a chance to try it) to get what you were telling me to do. For anyone following this thread, Text Wrapping is inside the Boris Title 3D window under the second tab down:

By ‘center tab’ I wasn’t sure if you meant under the Move tab or if you were referring to the Position X/Y controls under the Controls tab outside the Boris Title 3D window. I went with the Position X/Y:

That all worked for me for left to right. As a workaround for the Y axis, I did a 10-line template. This took me from Safe Title top to Safe Title bottom. When I use this for something with fewer than 10 lines, I simply add some returns to add up to eleven lines so it all pushes up to the top. Ten lines doesn’t do it for some reason.

The whole thing is less than elegant, but it does prevent me from having to do the whole thing over again each time.

So tired…

Martin

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[Martin Nelson]

[Tom Wolsky] “I think the only way they, if you have a lot of do, is to make multiple templates for different numbers of lines. “

Yeah, the problem with that is it recenters on both the X and Y axis and both the length of the lines (X) and the number of lines (Y) will be different every time.

[Tom Wolsky] “Have you tried Motion?”

I’m trying to avoid too many Motion effects in my sequence because I think they’re making it too complex and causing crashes.

Martin

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[Martin Nelson]

[Tom Wolsky] “If you use Title 3D and its alignment tools to create the text block. You can use it’s Position X/Y controls to position the text as needed.”

That’s what I thought, Tom, but have you actually tried this? Unless I’m doing something wrong, the Position X/Y controls determine the center of the block of text. If my template was built of eight long lines (white text in illustration) and my new entry, using the template, is three short ones (red text), the new text will start lower and to the right of the original.

The new text does have the same center point as the original, but that’s not what I’m out for.

Grrrrr,

Martin

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[Martin Nelson]

Yeah, that’s what I was afraid of, David. I was hoping the ‘Lock to Position’ button combined with the ‘Pivot X/Y’ would allow me to set an anchor point, but it seems not. There must be a viable workaround.

Martin

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[Martin Nelson]

That far I got on my own. But can I adjust levels on keyframes in both tracks at the same time?

Martin

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[Martin Nelson]

Ah David,

I asked you not to ask why. We all have our own approaches and justifying each move on a forum just slows down the process of finding an answer or, as so often is the case in Final Cut, a workaround. But, since you insist, I’ll tell you.

I never said the two tracks were the same, I simply said they were mono. Often, one is boom and one is lav from an interview. I’m working on a very long, very complicated show in what is very much an offline suite. I can’t always tell which is the preferred mic through my little Fostex monitors. I think, and I was taught, it’s best to give the mixer both channels and let him or her decide, listening through much better monitors, in a much quieter environment and using their much more qualified skill set to decide which channel is appropriate.

Yes, I could disable one channel every time I cut in a dual-mono clip, leaving it for the mixer’s later analysis and do my rough mix with only one track, but I find that process time consuming. And I frankly prefer not to have to use the Gain Filter when I don’t have to. If I still had the app launched I could go through step by step why I try to use it only when absolutely necessary (one partial reason is because I can’t see the waveform in the filter tab of the Viewer), but I think you should already be able to see why I asked you not to ask why: the answer to ‘why’ is longer than the original question of ‘how.’

The ability to ramp the level on more than one track at a time goes all the way back to the earliest of analog mixers. Heck, I used to have to mix live during screenings on a Steenbeck and I could simply push two sliders with two fingers and they’d mix together. It hardly seems much to expect it out a 21st Century professional editing system.

I do think I’ll try Jeff’s solution of making the tracks a stereo pair and then ramping them.

My intention in this response, David, was absolutely not to sound angry or fed up with my own or the application’s limitations or to take potshots at someone honestly just trying to offer a solution. I hope I did not come off that way.

Perhaps I should have inserted some emoticons,

Martin

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[Martin Nelson]

Thanks Tom and Jeff.

My life in workaround,

Martin

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