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FCP X: Spell Check Your Titles
Final Cut Pro X contains the built-in ability to check grammar and spelling in title text. This short video tutorial shows you how it works.
FCP X: Adding Timecode to Clips
Adding timecode to clips or projects is a great way to allow clients to review your projects and relate their comments to a specific time in the project. (This process is also called “timecode burn-in” – or “burning in timecode.”) This technique explains what you need to know.
Reversed Text Effect
This is a very cool technique that changes the color and display of your text as the background changes.
Protecting 16:9 Titles in 4:3 Title Safe
A subscriber, creating titles for a 16×9 movie that will go to SD DVD, writes in asking whether he keep his text in a 4×3 title safe grid. In response, we look at how Title Safe is defined.
Formatting Scripts for Voice-Over Talent
Here are a series of tips, written by a professional voice-over talent, that you can use to make sure your voice-over scripts are organized, easy to read, and run correctly to time.
Creating Special Effects with Non-Standard Sequences
Here’s a technique that can totally change how you think about sequences, nests, and the special effects you can create with them.
Software Review: Intelligent Assistance Transcriptize
Transcriptize is a new piece of software that takes the text transcripts automatically generated by Adobe Premiere or Adobe Soundbooth and formats them so people, rather than computers, can read them. PLUS, it allows you to a great trick to import those text transcripts into Final Cut Pro to speed your editing.
Guidelines for Great Text in FCP HD
Here are a series of tips to create great looking text in Final Cut Pro.
Create Text with Cast Shadows Using Title 3D
Here’s another technique that grew out of a recent webinar — creating cast shadows using Boris Title 3D. Title 3D is bundled with your version of Final Cut, so you already have this installed on your system.
Warning: Text Size in Motion Differs from Final Cut
If you’ve tried matching text sizes between Final Cut and Motion, you’ve discovered they aren’t the same. This article explains why.
Creating Text Favorites
Many times we need to use the same text formatting for multiple text clips. Here’s a fast and easy way to create text favorites, including drop shadows, that make the whole process simple.
Text is Text, Right?
How do you create and size text for video? What is the impact of interlacing? How can you make your text look as good as possible? This short article provides the answers.
