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FCP and text
by cstaylor » Wed Oct 30, 2002 2:04 pm
Hey FCP pro's... I have a question. Sometimes those evening television programs put Kanji over their video to emphasize someone's speech... any suggestions on what text generators I should use? As far as I can tell, I can't get Boris to generate Kanji under OS X...
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This is how I input Kanji.
by Blah Pete » Wed Oct 30, 2002 2:51 pm
CS,
I don't use FCP (currently using AVID, After Effects, Combustion) but this should work. I can input Kanji on system using English version Win2000 Illustrator (preferred) or Photoshop, but should work on Mac if you can input Kanji into Illiustrator:
1. Use a graphics program (like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop).
2. Start a new file at 720x480 pixels.
3. If you know how to make crop marks then do so, if not make a 720x480 rectangle, no fill color or line color. The reason for this is FCP may try to change the size of your image to the extent of your test. The empty rectangle will keep it screen size 720x480.
In Photoshop you won't need crop marks as it is a bitmap file and will always stay 720x480.
4. Choose your font and enter text. Keep the text color black.
5. Save and import graphic into FCP.
6. Overlay the graphic over the video track.
7. Apply a tint effect to the graphic to give the font desired color. This may work better than coloring in the graphics program, if not add color in step 4.
8. If you project is something like a karaoke song where you have a lot of text suggest making a template in Illustrator to speed things up.
Hope this helps,
BP
I don't use FCP (currently using AVID, After Effects, Combustion) but this should work. I can input Kanji on system using English version Win2000 Illustrator (preferred) or Photoshop, but should work on Mac if you can input Kanji into Illiustrator:
1. Use a graphics program (like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop).
2. Start a new file at 720x480 pixels.
3. If you know how to make crop marks then do so, if not make a 720x480 rectangle, no fill color or line color. The reason for this is FCP may try to change the size of your image to the extent of your test. The empty rectangle will keep it screen size 720x480.
In Photoshop you won't need crop marks as it is a bitmap file and will always stay 720x480.
4. Choose your font and enter text. Keep the text color black.
5. Save and import graphic into FCP.
6. Overlay the graphic over the video track.
7. Apply a tint effect to the graphic to give the font desired color. This may work better than coloring in the graphics program, if not add color in step 4.
8. If you project is something like a karaoke song where you have a lot of text suggest making a template in Illustrator to speed things up.
Hope this helps,
BP
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by cstaylor » Wed Oct 30, 2002 3:04 pm
Thanks for the tip... I've been doing the Photoshop technique for a while now... I was just wondering if there was a way to do it IN FCP directly using a text generator...
How do you like Avid?
How do you like Avid?
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by Blah Pete » Wed Oct 30, 2002 3:43 pm
CS,
Using Avid Xpress DV, wish I had more time on it. Whenever it looks like I might have a slow week to dig into it something comes up. There are many features in Xpress that are found the high-end Avid systems.
The more I use it the better I like it.
Currently I am doing more motion graphics stuff so I use Premiere as I am doing basic assembly edits.
Using Avid Xpress DV, wish I had more time on it. Whenever it looks like I might have a slow week to dig into it something comes up. There are many features in Xpress that are found the high-end Avid systems.
The more I use it the better I like it.
Currently I am doing more motion graphics stuff so I use Premiere as I am doing basic assembly edits.
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