User manual BORIS FX CALLIGRAPHY V2

[. . . ] · · ·1 · · · User Guide Ve r s i o n 2 . 0 · · 2· · · · Boris Calligraphy Version 2. 0 The material contained herein is protected by copyrights. Permission to use materials may be granted upon written request and proper credit. Contact information Boris FX, Inc. 381 Congress Street Boston, MA 02210 Phone: (617) 451-9900 Fax: (617) 451-9916 E-mail: info@borisfx. com http://www. borisfx. com For information on site licenses, please call (617) 451-9900 or e-mail sitelicense@artelsoft. com For technical support, visit the Boris FX Technical Forum at http://www. borisfx. com/support. [. . . ] You can type, import, and edit text, and control font, size, justiÞcation, color, opacity, spacing, shadows, and borders. The parameters in the Text window are applied on a character basis. For more information, see "Creating a Text Effect" on page 6. Generator menu 2. 3. Use the parameters in the Controls tab in the Viewer to apply an animation type to the text track. See "Animating Text" on page 44 for more information. Optimizing Workflow for Credit Rolls When you work with large amounts of text, for example a long credit roll, you should consider the following workßow options. · Create a text document in a word processor. This approach avoids tying up your Final Cut Pro system for long periods of time and reduces the risk of typographical errors. It is especially useful if the person responsible for the accuracy of the content is not the person who will create the roll. You can import a Simple Text document or you can simply cut and paste text. Then format the text in the Text window. Save the styles that you use for your credit roll in the Style Palette. Then you can quickly format long credit rolls. · · · 44 · · · · Animating Text The Controls tab in the Viewer contains parameters which control the movement of the text tracks. Selecting the 1:2:1 Deßicker checkbox applies a vertical blur to the effect to help eliminate ßickering and reduce jagged edges on moving graphics with hard edges. Select 1:2:1 Deßicker if the Animation Style menu is set to Roll. Leave this option deselected for any other type of effect. Note that the 1:2:1 DeFlicker option does not apply if Continuously Rasterize is enabled. · · Boris Calligraphy · 45 · · · The Animation Style menu determines what type of animation is applied to the text track. When the Animation Style menu is set to None, the text tracks are not animated. To create a roll, choose Roll from the Animation Style menu. When you create a text roll, the Title Crawl Generator automatically keyframes the text page to roll up the screen. This Generator automatically aligns and animates the text page so that you do not have to set keyframes in the timeline. However, you can also manually adjust the keyframes for more precise control over the effect. Text roll Time 00:00:01:00 Time 00:00:02:00 To create a crawl, choose Crawl from the Animation Style menu. Crawl moves all the text horizontally across the screen. The Title Crawl Generator automatically keyframes the text page to crawl across the screen. This Generator automatically aligns and animates the text page so that you do not have to set keyframes in the timeline. However, you can also manually adjust the keyframes for more precise control over the effect. Text crawl Time 00:00:01:00 Time 00:00:02:00 When you create a text roll, Mask Start and Mask End set the distance, in pixels, of masks at the top and bottom edges of the frame which hide the text as it rolls. In a text crawl, Mask Start and Mask End set the distance, in pixels, of masks at the left and right edges of the frame which hide the text as it rolls. · · 46 · · · · Blend Start and Blend End soften the edges of the mask, causing titles to "fade" into and out of the masked region. Text roll with blended mask Time 00:00:01:00 Time 00:00:02:00 The Reverse Direction checkbox reverses the direction of the roll or crawl, causing tracks to move from top to bottom instead of bottom to top (text roll) or from left to right instead of right to left (text crawl). [. . . ] Choose User Text from the Generator Type menu. Choosing User Text allows you to type a phrase into the Text window for this effect. 8. 9. 10. Choose Random Text from the Variation Mode menu. Random Text uses alphabetical characters for the text randomization. [. . . ]