Re: [Avid-L2] WAS Re: MXO2 LE NOW: title tool/mac

I've been whining in the breeze about this problem, literally for
years! I got a little traction/attention last year, but it 'died in
committee' somewhere along the line... if I recall correctly, Avid had
difficult reproducing the problem. Sadly, I have no trouble
reproducing the problem.

gh
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Greg Huson
Secret Headquarters, Inc
Post Production / Production
Culver City, CA
323 677 2092
323 677 2096 F
www.DigitalServiceStation.com
greg (at) SecretHQ.com
www.SecretHQ.com

On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Steve Pomerantz wrote:

> Wow, I've never seen that on the PC version.
>
> Steve Pomerantz
> Senior Editor
> Digital Ranch Productions
> Sherman Oaks, CA
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson <Greg@...> wrote:
> >
> > I don't want it replaced, I just want it to work.
> >
> > On Mac, if you 'recreate title media,' the titles shift several
> lines
> > - even if you don't make any changes. Recreate the title again?
> > Moves back to its original position. But, it doesn't do this EVERY
> > time. Just most of the time... Often, if you open a title that was
> > built on one machine - with the EXACT same font, and the original
> > system has the same version of software and graphics cards - the
> title
> > will have completely different kerning and line spacing. Same
> > font. And that's to say nothing of a title that was designed in
> > offline on a PC and brought forward to a Mac for online.
> >
> > Then, there's the what-you-see-isn't-quite-what-you-get problem. The
> > background image comes up in the title generator out of position.
> Not
> > always, but sometimes, (75% of the time) shifted far to the left-
> > enough that you have to ignore the background that you're trying to
> > build titles over - and focus on using the grid for positioning -
> >
> > Don't get me wrong - way easier to use than Final Cut's title
> > generator, but it just needs to be consistent and repeatable. Why
> > is this a pet peeve of mine? We do a boatload of electronic press
> > kits - and all they are is endless slates. We spend WAY too much
> time
> > retyping and re-tweaking slates just because they didn't render (or
> > come up in the title editor) the same way twice. For most users, who
> > are doing a lower third or two, maybe a slate at the top, a full
> > screen graphic here or there... this is merely a petty annoyance.
> For
> > us, as we now flat-bid a lot of our work, it literally costs me
> money.
> >
> > Marquee is too cumbersome for us to use for building slates - though
> > I've often considered 'forcing' the staff to move over to Marquee.
> >
> >
> > gh
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > Greg Huson
> > Secret Headquarters, Inc
> > Post Production / Production
> > Culver City, CA
> > 323 677 2092
> > 323 677 2096 F
> > www.DigitalServiceStation.com
> > greg (at) SecretHQ.com
> > www.SecretHQ.com
> >
>
>
>

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