Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop, 2nd Edition

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Setting Up the Project

Text Generator

Title 3D

Title Crawl

Nesting

Photoshop Title

Summary

Lesson 7

Adding Titles

Every program is enhanced with graphics, whether they are a simple opening title and closing credits or elaborate motion-graphics sequences illuminating some obscure point that can best be expressed in animation. This could be simply a map with a path snaking across it or a full-scale 3D animation explaining the details of how an airplane is built. Obviously, the latter is beyond the scope of both this book and of Final Cut Express alone. But many simpler graphics can be easily created within FCE.

In this lesson, we will look at typical titling problems and how to deal with them. As always, we begin ...