Suggestions for Video Titling Program

[Karen St Martin]

I would appreciate some suggestion for a video title creation program. I currently use Ulead CG Infinity, and while it is very versatile, I am not completely happy with some of the results. For example, when I zoom a xharacter string making it larger, the edges are somewhat ragged. Suggestions anyone?

[Sciascia]

Boris Red is pretty nice and if you are using Ulead MSP 6 or Premiere it is a plugin. It also does a lot of effects.

[Brian Ellis]

Karen

I would have thought that if you generated a character string in a small font and then tried to zoom in on it in any bitmap graphics application, you will inevitably have the jaggies. The secret is to generate the characters in the largest font you will be using and then reduce the size for your starting point (not by changing the font size). Another technique is to reverse the animation, after zooming out.

Brian

[Karen St Martin]

Brian,

I hadn't thought of that. Before using CG Infinity, I used to create zoom effects using Adobe Photoshop, but that took a *lot* of time though it does produce very clean images. I'll certainly give your suggestion a try! Thanks!

[AndrewDV]

Hi,

Have you tried Ulead Cool3D? I am not sure if the latest version (v3?) comes with MSP6 or not. It is not a full blown titler, but has some impressive features.