Lesson 12

Boris Calligraphy and Advanced Titling

In the previous chapter we looked at FCE’s text tools. Now we’re going to look at Boris Calligraphy, which is made up of two elements: Title 3D and Title Crawl. This is actually a plug-in to FCE’s Generators created for Apple by Boris FX. These supersede the FCE text tools and should be the title tool of choice for most of the work you do. These generators give the user great control and flexibility with text.

Setting Up the Project

Let’s begin by opening up the Lesson 12 project from your hard drive, and if necessary going through the reconnect process.

Inside the project in the Browser you’ll find some ...

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