END CREDIT ROLL

Using FCP5 and would like to do a nice, non-shaky credit roll. How should I do it? What's a nice font for a feature film?

Make sure the font you choose is large, clean, no serifs or curly bits, and not absolute white. Red and bright yellow are also bad choices for video.

Thin parts of fonts flicker, as do thin lines in photographs and graphics. It sometimes helps to apply a flicker filter or add a tiny amount of gaussian blur.

Thank you. But where in Final Cut do I build the roll?

I like using photoshop to build the roller.

a roller needs left & right justified text with a gutter for a lot of it,
center justified for some of it,
smaller text blocks for music
logos for various organizatrions,
etc, etc

trying to do it in FCP will have you tearing your hair out.

the only thing i do in FCP is to keyframe the move.


cheers,
nick

CHV has a plugin which has a great reputation. I just bought it but have not used it yet, so I'm being kind of dopey, but maybe you should look it up.

Harry.

I'm still using Boris Title Crawl.

Nick, when you build in Photoshop, what's the PS resolution? 72 DPI? Any advantage to more?

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Is the Boris title crawl the one in video generators? If so, how do you underline and raise the font size for specific words?

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Loren
Nick, when you build in Photoshop, what's the PS resolution? 72 DPI?

yes, i either use the appropriate default "video" size,
or export a reference frame from FCP and open that in PS,
so both of those give me 72dpi.

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Loren
Any advantage to more?

cant say, sorry.
do you think there would be?


nick

I thought it had already been established that DPI doesn't really have an impact on graphics imported into FCP or AVID for that matter.

72 dpi was always the number quoted for AVIDs back in the day but I don't know if that was an AVID issue or that 720x486 @ 72DPI gave you a good size image to look at when building GFX in PS at 100%.

It's just the number of pixels across and the number of pixels down that matters and it's relation or ratio to those values in your sequence settings.

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