Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 855)

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Creating Titles
Titles, including opening and closing credits and those used
in the lower part of the screen, are important elements in
your project.
This chapter covers the following:
 How You Can Use Titles in Your Project (p. 855)
 Installing and Choosing Fonts (p. 856)
 Making Sure Titles Fit on TV Screens (p. 856)
 Text Generators Available in Final Cut Express HD (p. 857)
 Creating and Adding a Title Clip (p. 858)
 Other Options for Creating and Adding Titles (p. 862)
How You Can Use Titles in Your Project
Movie 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 Express HD with Text generators.
Generators are synthesized clips generated by Final Cut Express HD. Generators don’t
reference 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.