KILLER Titles - Intelligent Assistance for LiveType and Calligraphy

Contents

Tutorial #1: Create a New Project in LiveType

How2 Create a LiveType Project

How2 Set Project Properties

How2 Set Render Quality

How2 Set Project background and Canvas display

How2 Place a Background movie for background

Tutorial #2: Build a Lower Third Background

How2 Import and position a still image

How2 Extend the duration of a still clip

How2 Duplicate imported elements on a track

How2 Matte a Texture to a Glyph

How2 Select, Scale, Rotate and position Glyphs

How2 Use a LiveObject as an animated element

How2 Change the color of a LiveObject

How2 Extend the duration of a LiveObject

How2 Use a Text outline as a compositing element

Tutorial #3: Animate with Effects and Preview with Wireframe

How2 Offset start times of Tracks

How2 Apply saved Effects

How2 Selectively apply Effects to Glyphs

How2 Control sequential application of Effects to Glyphs

How2 Use the Wireframe preview in the Inspector

Tutorial #4: Add Text and Preview Images

How2 Add Text using LiveFonts

How2 Set the color of a LiveFont

How2 Preview to RAM

How2 Set Tracking for Glyphs

How2 Render a small preview Movie

Tutorial #5: Enhance and Export LiveType

How2 Disguise text write-on with a Live Object

How2 Add a highlight sweep across Text

How2 Save a Project as a Template

How2 Render for Final Cut Pro

How2 Render a preview for a Template or Effect

How2 Render a "patch" for previously rendered Projects

Tutorial #6: Create animated Transparent Backgrounds for Lower Thirds in Final Cut Pro

How2 Create Transparency for a Title background

How2 Animate Transparency in a Travel Matte

How2 Enhance animated Transparency for Lower Thirds

Tutorial #7: Create Title Builds in Final Cut Pro

How2 Enter Text for Title Builds

How2 Build Titles by deleting Text to the start

How2 Add Transitions during a Title Build

Tutorial #8: Prepare in Final Cut Pro for LiveType

How2 Prepare for LiveType in Final Cut Pro

How2 Add Markers for Timing

How2 Export a Sequence from Final Cut Pro to LiveType

Tutorial #9: Add Text and time to Markers

How2 Add Text from a System Font

How2 Kern Text

How2 Time a Clip to Final Cut Pro Markers

Tutorial #10: Work with effects 1. Add & Time Effects

How2 Add an Effect to a Track

How2 Change the timing of an Effect

How2 Change the speed of an effect

Tutorial #11: Work with Effects 2: Add and Modify keyframes and parameters

How2 Modify an Effect to change the finish Position

How2 Change the look of an effect by modifying a keyframe

How2 Change the timing of an Effect by adding a keyframe

How2 Add and animate a new parameter to an Effect

Tutorial #12: Work with Effects 3: Create Effect

How2 Create a New Effect

How2 Save a new or modified Effect under a new name and category

How2 Fade a clip in with complex animation

Tutorial #13: Duplicating & Modifying Tracks to quickly build animation

How2 Replace a Font with a LiveFont

How2 Duplicate a Track

How2 Change Text in a Track

How2 Change Keyframe Settings

How2 Reverse an Effect's application (Sequence)

Tutorial #14: Slide in and Type on Text

How2 Create New Text Tracks

How2 Dissect an Effect

How2 Create an Effect (slow slide of text)

How2 Save a Custom Effect

How2 Fade out mid-Clip

How2 Time Effect Sequencing to Markers

Tutorial #15: Prepare & Export Textures or LiveObjects for use in Final Cut Pro

How2 Add Textures to new tracks

How2 Add a LiveObject and scale for export

How2 Export individual layers

Tutorial #16: Animate layers in sync with zooming text

How2 Set up for compositing

How2 Build a mult-layer composited Effect

How2 Align a Texture behind Text

How2 Use Paste Attributes to speed Effect creation

Tutorial #17: Use LiveType Textures to build a layered effect with Composite modes

How2 Change Composite Modes

How2 Composite multiple elements behind Text

How2 Enhance with Glow effects

Tutorial #18: Create Blurred and Tracked Text

How2 Animate Tracking

How2 Animate Blur

How2 Animate Fade

How2 Create Blurred and Tracked Text

Tutorial #19: Glow on Type-on

How2 Use Glow to Highlight type-on

How2 Animate Glow across letters onscreen

How2 Take text off with the same Effect that bought it on (Reverse Effect)

How2 Reverse an Effect's direction

Tutorial #20: Jittery Jumpy Text

How2 Set "random" Position keyframes

How2 Set "random" Scale keyframes

How2 Make an Effect continuous by Looping it

How2 Apply Scale and Position randomly

Tutorial #21: Use Glyphs, Outlines and Shadows as Compositing Elements

How2 Change the color of a Texture

How2 Locate a Glyph as a compositing element

How2 Use a Glyph Outline as a compositing element

How2 Composite a Texture to a Glyph

How2 Create Depth with Shadows

How2 Skew a shadow for effect

Tutorial #22: Create and Control Background Transparency

How2 Retain Transparency to background

How2 Change layer order to modify the Effect

How2 Add Multi-line Text

How2 Transition a title to full screen video

Tutorial #23: Fill Text with Textures in Final Cut Pro

How2 Fill Text with a gradient in Final Cut Pro

How2 Create a Matte with text in Final Cut Pro

How2 Fill Text with a Travel Matte

How2 Add an Edge to Filled Text

How2 Enhance Filled Text

Tutorial #24: Animate Shading for Text Blocks

How2 Blend Textures with gradient matte or mask

How2 Use Glyphs to create a dark background for text

How2 Create Depth on a Glyph using Extrude

How2 Animate Text Background reveal

How2 Create a Spectral Highlight using Glow

Tutorial #25: Build a complex background

How2 Use LiveObject as a Matte Border

How2 Reveal a Matte Border synchronized with a background reveal

How2 Reveal the background in a Matte or LiveObject

How2 Duplicate and reposition matching elements

Tutorial #26: Create and Animate Lines and Curves

How2 Use Glyphs to create lines and curves

How2 Animate a network of Lines

How2 Use LiveObjects to create lines and curves

How2 Duplicate objects in a Track

Tutorial #27: Constrain Text in LiveType

How2 Create reusable elements for LiveType and Final Cut Pro

How2 Enter and position Text in controlled areas

Tutorial #28: LiveType and Calligraphy

How2 Composite a Calligraphy Generator over a LiveType background

How2 Create a "page" as a text box in Final Cut Pro

How2 Enter Text for Text Boxes

How2 Animate on Text in Calligraphy

Tutorial #29: Animate Highlight on Text in Final Cut Pro

How2 Create a Matte for a Text Highlight

How2 Animate a Highlight in Final Cut Pro

How2 Nest a Highlight generator and Travel Matte

How2 Composite a Highlight over text in Final Cut Pro

Tutorial #30: Create a background from individual Glyphs

How2 Build a backdrop of Glyphs

How2 Rapidly vary Lightness and Saturation

How2 Position Text or LiveFonts vertically

How2 Animate a Glow across image elements

Tutorial #31: Animate Glyphs to hide and reveal background video

How2 Build a fill of composited glyphs of random shape and size

How2 Hide using randomized Opacity

How2 Duplicate Tracks and reverse an Effect

Tutorial #32: Animate view through to background

How2 Shift Hue

How2 Use multiple Glyphs to reveal background

How2 Use a LiveFont as an animated border

Tutorial #33: Animate a Glint on the edge of Text

How2 Create a Matte to composite a Glint

How2 Composite a Glint around text

Tutorial #34: Use Mattes and Highlights for text screens

How2 Use a Square glyph as a solid compositing element

How2 Use a Drop Shadow for depth

How2 Use Lightness to create depth

How2 Use Outline to soften the edge of elements

How2 Animate Overlapping screens

Tutorial #35: Add interest to Text Screens

How2 Control Texture Animation

How2 Sequence or Synchronize Texture Animation

How2 Add an animated Matte

How2 Matte a Texture to an animated Matte

How2 Skew a matte or glyph

Tutorial #36: Create Fake 3D elements and depth

How2 Create fake 3D on a glyph using Glow

How2 Composite and Animate Glyphs vertically

How2 Position lines of text

How2 Use Outlines to make Text display clearer

How2 Distort and animate a Glow

Tutorial #37: Zoom through a Title without pixelation

How2 Create Text to Zoom through

How2 Animate a Zoom through Text

Tutorial #38: Bounce objects (or Text) along an irregular path

How2 Create an irregular Motion path

How2 Smooth a Motion path

How2 Offset Shadows to create the illusion of depth

How2 Create a bounce distortion on Objects or Text

How2 Change order of depth by changing Sequence order

Tutorial #39: Explode Text out of bubbles and bounce into place

How2 Animate Text into Position

How2 Create a bounce on Text as it settles into place

How2 Render to a specific Codec from LiveType

Tutorial #40: Create a Film spool with orbiting Video

How2 Create a pseudo 3D spool with Styles

How2 Create a circular path

How2 Slide Glyphs along a path

How2 Link the endpoints of a path

How2 Fill a Glyphs with multiple videos

How2 Keep a Glyph square-on when rotating around a circular

path

How2 Sequence the Spotlight LiveFont

How2 Sequence a LiveFont animation with a pause between

Bonus Seminar: How2 Improve Video Titles

How2 Select the right color for video titles

How2 Choose the right font for video titles

How2 Make video titles compression friendly

		Examples Tutorials 8 through 17 use LiveType and Final Cut Pro to build this finished project - a result that could not be easily done in either application alone. All of the elements in the composite are textures supplied with LiveType, and the musical sting was created in Apple's Soundtrack application.

	Tutorials 21 and 22 use glyphs as compositing elements in LiveType. The tutorials show how to provide a reveal to the background for video in Final Cut Pro, and how to create depth with shadow and color.

	Tutorials 24 to 28 use LiveObjects (animated design elements included with LiveType) as mattes and compositing elements; glyphs to create backgrounds and lines; extrusions and glows to create depth.

	Tutorials 29 and 33 use Calligraphy to fill text with textures and run a glint around the edge of the text.

	Tutorials 30 to 32 show how to rapidly create design elements from a single glyph with varying color, lightness and saturation. LiveFonts (animated fonts included with LiveType) are used for text and borders.