Timing titles to narration

	Re: Timing titles to narration by david bogie on Sep 3, 2009 at 5:15:27 pm Not to be dismissive but, umm, that's why we call editing a job. You can set up your text items in many different ways, just like in Powerpoint. You can create individual text elements for each item or you can program a reveal using a moving mask, crop settings keyframes, vertical scrolling motion, word-based animations in Motion or LiveType. Each of these has stylistic implications and you consider your audience and your message before you consider your text build methods. To get you started, here's how I used to this in the olden days: 1. Start with the finished build, all bullet points are on the screen, composed, edited, carefully designed, all typography and spelling issues are dealt with. Let's say there are five bullet points and title, a total of six items. 2. This single, complete text element is set to run for the entire length of the build while you are editing because clients keep changing their minds. You want to know what the final build looks like before working on the individual bullets. 3. Once it's approved, what I call golden, I make one copy for each item (need five copies in this case) and start to trim them and drop them into place onto the timeline in time with the narration. 4. Starting with the penultimate item, open it in the text editor and delete the last bullet so this text element has the title and four bullets. 5. Go to the next previous text element and open it in the text editor to delete the last two bullets so it now contains only the title and three bullets. 6. Repeat three more times. The reason I learned to do it this way is that it was always easier to subtract items from the final build than it was to add new ones when the clients changed their minds and none of the alignments or typographical adjustments changed between edits. bogiesan Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index