This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] New Blue Titler Pro major shortcoming

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] New Blue Titler Pro major shortcoming

Another workaround! I have no plans to work in UHD yet but there are things you can do very easily with NewBlue that would be handy in any kind of project. I cannot find any Mac application that uses text that does NOT allow the entry of special characters so it is a major shortcoming and/or oversight.

With Best Wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543 660

From: "Dave Hogan mactvman@yahoo.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 2015, 2:40
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] New Blue Titler Pro major shortcoming

There is an easy work around... Switch your project to a non UHD resolution in the format tab, make your titles in Title tool or Marquee, switch back.

They are not full UHD res, but fine for slates and many other "temp" titles in offline.

Dave Hogan
Burbank, CA

On Monday, May 11, 2015 5:35 AM, "Roger Shufflebottom rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Avid tell us that with the advent of 2K, 4K etc editing, that the old Title Tool and Marquee are no longer suitable (!) and we are to use the bundled New Blue Title Pro (if you try the old way, you'll get an alert telling you to use NBTP) . In testing I find that NBTP will not accept the usual Mac shortcuts to enter special characters (copyright, degree, proper quotes etc etc). I contacted New Blue and was told that "Yes, that is the expected behavior. Unfortunately it's a limitation with the version of the Qt library that we're using in Titler Pro". Now, that is not acceptable. I found a workaround which is to create the text in (say) Textedit and copy and paste in the special characters.

I know that many folk create their titles outside Media Composer but there should be a reliable titler of some sort included.

With Best Wishes,
Roger Shufflebottom
+44 7973 543 660