Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1271)

This chapter covers the following:
• How You Can Use Titles in Your Project (p. 1271)
• Installing and Choosing Fonts (p. 1272)
• Making Sure Titles Fit on TV Screens (p. 1272)
• Text Generators Available in Final Cut Pro (p. 1273)
• Creating and Adding a Title Clip (p. 1276)
• Other Options for Creating and Adding Titles (p. 1279)
Titles, including opening and closing credits and titles used in the lower part of the screen,
are important elements in your project.
How You Can Use Titles in Your Project
Titles play a critical role in movies, providing important bookends (such as opening titles
and closing credits) and conveying time and dates within the movie. Titles, especially in
the lower third of the screen, are also used in documentaries and informational video to
convey details about subjects or products onscreen. You can also add notes and
placeholders within your sequence while you edit. Subtitles can be a critical element for
movies originating in a different language.
You can create titles and credits within Final Cut Pro with text generators. Generators are
synthesized clips generated by Final Cut Pro. Generators don’t refer to any media on your
scratch disk. When you place a text generator on a track directly above another clip, the
clip on the lower track appears as the text background, sparing you the need to perform
any compositing to create that effect.
Note: After you add a text generator to your sequence, it must be rendered.
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