[Max Frank]

I can’t recommend MBE enough and would encourage you to get the latest version you can afford – it’s really great.

Wayne

[Max Frank]

Jeremy,

That seemed to help, thank you so much!

Kim, thanks for the tip.

Wayne

[Max Frank]

Jeremy,

Thank you much for taking the time to check and to try help me.

The field order for both is lower (even).

Hurrumph!

W

[Max Frank]

Don’t know what to tell ya… set up as DV PAL on both, and tried
jiggling the pixel placement, but to no avail.

Not sure what else to do here…

Going to have to give Motion a miss and hope V.3. works better for me.

W.

[Max Frank]

Yes, on external monitor.

The strange thing is, the Boris 3D text looks great, both in FCP and on the monitor, but when the Motion text is imported/roundtripped, it looks awful.

Is it just me, or is this a bug?

W

[Max Frank]

Thanks for the reply.

Here’s what I’m doing:
1. The sequences in both programs match [DV PAL]
2. Create text in Motion 3.
3. Save
4. Drag icon and place it onto FCP 5.1.2 timeline
5. I then notice that the text looks low-res and pixellated, even after rendering.
6. Fold arms in frustration!
7. Try changing the text by roundtripping back to Motion using the ‘open in editor’ function.
8. Repeat

Any ideas? What am I doing wrong?
Why does my text look bad?

W

[Max Frank]

Thanks will check it out.

W

osx 10.4.8 G5 2.0DP, 3.5GB RAM, FCP 5.1.2

[Max Frank]

Thank you gents for your insights and advice.

Much appreciated.

Going to take your advice.

Wayne

osx 10.4.8 G5 2.0DP, 3.5GB RAM, FCP 5.1.2

[Max Frank]

Here you go:

https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/fcplugins/dh_retrotv.php

Wayne

osx 10.4.8 G5 2.0DP, 3.5GB RAM, FCP 5.1.2

[Max Frank]

FIXED!!!!!!!! Thanks Paul @ Boris Support

Well actually, it’s a work-around, but it’s enabled me to move forward with my project that has over 500 Title 3D clips.

Below is the work-around from Paul at Borris Tech support for any of you guys that are having the same problems.

Thanks for all your help guys,

Wayne

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1. Move the four elements of Calligraphy (Text Scrambler, Title 3D, Title Crawl and Vector Shape) out of the FCP plugins folder located: Hard Drive-Library-Application Support-Final Cut System Support-Plugins. If you have another drive, place them in there. FCP will find them in the trash.

2. Run the installer for Calligraphy 1.1. It should place a folder called “Boris Calligraphy” in the FCP plugins folder. In the Boris Calligraphy folder there should be only two files, Title 3D and Title Crawl.

3. Here comes the pain, you will have to re-locate each of the titles individually. Each time you click “yes”, after the first time, it will default to the “Plugins” folder so, whatI did was, when the message pops up asking you to do so, have one finger on the “Enter” key and another on the Right Arrow key (inbetween the “Control” and Zero key) and just keep hitting enter, arrow right and enter until all the titles have been relinked.

The older version of Calligraphy only has Title 3D and Title Crawl so, if you do have titles created with Text Scrambler or Vector Shape, you might have to recreate them if they do not appear correctly.

Here is the link to Calligraphy 1.1:

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120118

Paul

osx 10.4.8 G5 2.0DP, 3.5GB RAM, FCP 5.1.2