[Steven Gonzales]

Scrolling text will make a new line ONLY at a paragraph mark or new line mark. This means that if you paste a paragraph in to the scrolling text, the whole paragraph will be on only one line when it scrolls.

If you want that paragraph to be on several lines (like it appears in word or text edit) you have to put paragraph marks within the paragraph, at the place where you want a new line.

Scolling text makes a new line where there is a paragraph mark. Conversely, scrolling text does NOT make a new line if there is no paragraph mark there — even if there was a new line in Word or Text edit.

Word and text edit make new lines (wrap the text to another line) based on the page margins and other factors. Scrolling text box in Final Cut does not.

[Steven Gonzales]

Also, if you want the individual lines of a paragraph to appear on different lines when scroolling, they will not automatically wrap in the scrolling text box as they would in a word document or within the window of text edit.

You would need to force a paragraph mark on every line by manually inserting them. Perhaps this is the issue.

[Steven Gonzales]

I would go into word, select the Word menu, select preference, select view and turn on all the non printing characters.

Perhaps they tabbed between paragraphs or something else funny.

When you find out what characters are between paragraphs, then you can search and replace with something that works correctly for you.

[Steven Gonzales]

When I type some text in text edit with carriage returns, then copy and paste into scrolling text within Final Cut, I get the line breaks.

I’m not sure what’s going on to cause your problem.

[Steven Gonzales]

If you “mark clip” on the middle clip, you get 5secs 0 frames, and the out mark is on the last frame of the middle clip.

If you snap to the cut point after the middle clip and place an out point, you are actually on the first frame of the next clip. If you mark there, you get 5 secs 1 frame.

In Avid there used to be a preference option: if you parked on the first frame of the next clip, the out marker could actually be placed on (thus ending after) the previous frame if you chose that option.

[Steven Gonzales]

Good point Walter, as I find that a lot of folks who say Avid is more nimble at capture were using RS-422 control on Avid compared to firewire control in FCP.

Also, capture from camera vs. capture from deck is a big difference, as the transports are much more robust on decks.

[Steven Gonzales]

I always saw the logic “in mark begins at front of frame marked, out mark ends at end of frame marked”.

If there’s a 5 second hole in the timeline, and you snap to the beginning, put an in mark, then snap to the end, put an out mark, the ‘in to out’ length shown in the upper left of the canvas is 5.01. So cutting something in there give you 5.01 of length.

Am I crazy, or does anyone else remember Avid having a preference for this situation, where the out mark could be set before the parked frame for out mark, or after? That was many years ago.

[Steven Gonzales]

What program are you using to create the text?

[Steven Gonzales]

A huge portion of editing is tracking and knowing the footage. That means a huge portion of editing is clerical. in a perfect world, this should start with the shooter, who should provide detailed notes on what was shot.

However, the deficiencies of production fall on the editor, since they’re the last in the chain of actions.

Tough it out and log the footage. That way you’ll watch it more carefully, and the work will be better. Even though editors sit in chairs, it’s no job for the indolent.

“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.” ~Henry Ford

[Steven Gonzales]

I think he is adding visual burn-in timecode onto the image.