I am a ten year veteran of Inscriber and feel your pain.
I recommend getting an accomplished professional FCP colleague, even better if he or she knew Inscriber, to show you through Livetype. Not some kid showing you the cool FX … that’s not what you’re after I gather from your email.
The interface with all those twizly knobs and dials can seem a bit much coming from the simplicity and accuracy of a program like Inscriber with it’s Templates (ie: I still don’t know how to type in a baseline value I have to use my mouse) but Livetype is quite nice when integrated properly with FCP.
In fact I find I’m liking it more for the odd animated transition that Titlemotion always promised but didn’t really deliver in an easy-to-use interface. I won’t say LT rocks but it’s very capable and like I said there are a number of features that someone just has to show you that you may find increases your ability to generate money-making (ie: quick) titles.
– Rick