DEBUGGED 7 July 2012 (Text scaling issue fixed)



A Title effect for creating rolling news style scrolling lower thirds, with controls for:

- Scroll Rate;
- Reduce flicker on/off;
- Start offscreen on/off;
- Band position, height and color;
- Band feather position;
- User image On/Off, position, scale and rotation;
- Opacity gradient on/off.
- Band.feather.position control, and drop shadow controls for band.

Please let me know if you would like any further enhancements to this effect.

Make sure you put it in your Motion Templates/Titles folder, preferably in a new folder of your own naming.

Tip: If you want to use one of the FCPX generators as an user image source, edit a section into your timeline, click on the Title Effect User Image well and then skim over to the generator clip, and click on it and "apply clip". Remember there are some great images tucked away in the drop-down menus for each of these generators so it's worth exploring the possibilities.

It's great! Two things I would ask.. can you change the Band.Feather.Position so that you can 1) Change whether the feather is to the right or left, and 2) If the feather could start offscreen and then fly in, preferably keyframeable?

You're the best, Simon!

THANK YOU!

Yes he is incredible ! thank you very much

"Simon" is it possible please to get a drop shadow settings integrated ?

thank you ! thank you !thank you !thank you !thank you !thank you !

Hiya

I could give you controls for drop shadow in the main interface but I didn't want to because a) you already have them in the text panel of the effect (down at the bottom, you need to scroll to find it) and b) I didn't want to overload the UI with too much detail.

Hi

You can animate the band.feather.position slider currently - does that give you enough control or do you need more?

I'll have a go at giving you the option for having it from the opposite side as well.

S.

Can you make the Band.Feather.Position slider accept negative values? So you can fly in from offscreen?

As far as overloading with too much detail, I'm of the mind that the more control over every aspect I have, the better.

You're awesome, Simon. Thanks!

Thank you Simon for your fast reply and assistance.
So, the drop shadow (the one you are talking about) is for
the text...the one i would love to get is for the box itself.

For me the control of the band.feather is perfect, no change needed, thanks

OK, that should be no problem

Now updated for you - see the original post for the new zip file to download.

The Band.Feather.Position slider now works in such a way that you can set the band to come on from either the right or the left -= and of course you can keyframe it the slider animation control. Slide it all the way to the right and the band is fully on, slide it all the way to the left and the band is also fully on - centre it in the middle and the band is fully off. It should make sense when you play with it

Hope that works for you.

And I've added Vader's band drop shadow as well.

uffff what to say! of course a big THANK YOU and wish that you will share with us your talent for a very longggg time.
All the best to you, great job one more time

Sorry to seem slightly ditzy but I can't seem to find a download button (Im new here ) Any help?

I don't believe the effect is available thru this forum any longer. The original link was in the very first thread but it is now gone.

Hummm. That's too bad. It sounds like a good one.

Eddie

My first time seeing this thread... quite the teaser, then a huge disappointment.
Kind of like some dates I've been on.

However, I think there is a scrolling ticker in FCPX somewhere, though probably not with the depth of controls this one had.

OK, guys - here it is again:



Add it to your Movies/Motion Templates/Titles folder.

Hope it works for you.

thanks Simon,

I'm sorry that I can't see your posting, it's just an empty box for me. When I click Quote I can see it, but then the link is no longer active. Is this a problem with my browser? Not all posts are invisible, but I'd say about 10% in this forum only.

thanks

It's an issue with the forum that is being worked on. We'll have to wait yet to get attachments and links back up and visible.

Thanks for clarifying.
Since he's posted a link, we know it exists, is there anyway we can make it visible & working?
thanks again...

I believe Simon will have to repost his thread with a new link once the website has been fixed.

I've made this effect available here for anyone who is still looking for it:

tokyo-uk.com/fcpxeffects/freedownloads.html