Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 869)

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Creating Titles
Titles, including opening and closing credits and titles
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. 869)
 Installing and Choosing Fonts (p. 870)
 Making Sure Titles Fit on TV Screens (p. 871)
 Text Generators Available in Final Cut Express (p. 872)
 Creating and Adding a Title Clip (p. 874)
 Other Options for Creating and Adding Titles (p. 877)
 Using LiveType to Create Titles for Your Project (p. 878)
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 Express with text generators.
Generators are synthesized clips generated by Final Cut Express. 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.