Handwriting

[mits]

Hi all,
does anybody know how to make a title look like it is written by hand (like "the end" in some old movies) ?

Thanks

[landrover]

You should have one or more handwriting-type fonts on your system if that´s good enough. Or you could buy a Wacom tablet and write your text in a drawing or painting application.

landrover

[Frank Marshall]

If you mean you want to make the title look like it's being written:

You start by creating the complete title-frame (you'll need the above-mentioned writing tablet to use your own handwriting) in Photoshop or similar. Now you save a series of versions of the title frame, erasing a little bit off the end of your title each time. You assemble all these frames in your NLE and reverse their order. If you do it right it looks like the title is being written across the screen.

[Sciascia]

GET THE TABLET!! I got one years ago and cannot part with it. They are in the $60- $80 range and are just way too cool. Pressure sensitive, has an eraser and work great. They are very well integrated with al kinds of graphic apps too. It is just so much easier to use the pen than a mouse for drawing.

[Brian Ellis]

Of course, by selecting the appropriate felt-tip, you can write your text on paper, scan it in as a graphics (e.g., BMP) then erase it backwards as described above - or is this too simple and cheap?

[mits]

ok guys thank you all,
i have some "handwriting-type" fonts and i'll give it a try by erasing backwards and saving every erased instance of the title.

[hippie91]

if you're doing it in photoshop, just delete a little bit and save it as a new layer instead, then you can easyily switch to imageready to preview how it will look once it's animated. that way if you do it and it's too jumpy, you don't have to either rename all the files or import each frame into your video editor one by one. you can just slip in some new frames