Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1291)

504 Part II Project Interchange
Using LiveType to Create Titles for Your Project
When you want to create more dynamic and unique titles, LiveType makes it easy for
you. It provides dozens of fonts and hundreds of objects and textures that are not
available in the Final Cut Pro Text generators.
What’s more, you can create your own animated fonts using the LiveType FontMaker
utility, building characters using virtually any graphical object—from 3D animations
and images created in Photoshop to video clips—and applying effects to them, just as
you would to words.
Because you can directly import LiveType project files into Final Cut Pro, there is no
need to render a QuickTime movie of your LiveType title each time you want to use it in
Final Cut Pro.
Note: To open LiveType projects directly in Final Cut Pro, LiveType 1.2 or later must be
installed on the Final Cut Pro system you are using.
Importing a LiveType Project Into Final Cut Pro
To add a title you created in LiveType, you import the LiveType project in exactly the
same way you would import most media items. A LiveType project file within
Final Cut Pro is simply referred to as a LiveType clip or a LiveType movie.
To import a LiveType project into Final Cut Pro, do one of the following:
m Choose File > Import or Command-I and navigate to the LiveType project you want to
import into Final Cut Pro.
m From the Finder, drag a LiveType project file into the Final Cut Pro Browser.
The LiveType project file appears as a clip in the Final Cut Pro Browser.
Note: If necessary, you can later reconnect the LiveType project file on disk just as you
would any other Final Cut Pro clip.