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Title Generator Settings Parameters
Additionally, each generator has Composite, Transform, and Cropping parameters in the Settings panel of the Video Inspector that let you composite, resize, and animate titles against other clips in the Timeline for motion graphics effects. These parameters are the same as those available for every clip, as described later in this chapter.
The Text+ Title Generator
TIP: At the time of this writing, the Text generator is still very useful for quickly creating text pages with multiple styles, whereas the Text+ generator excels at creating text for animated motion graphics.
TIP: At the time of this writing, the Text generator is still very useful for quickly creating text pages with multiple styles, whereas the Text+ generator excels at creating text for animated motion graphics.
TIP: At the time of this writing, the Text generator is still very useful for quickly creating text pages with multiple styles, whereas the Text+ generator excels at creating text for animated motion graphics.
A new kind of title generator, named Text+, is available in the Titles category of the Effects Library’s toolbox. This is the exceptionally fully-featured 2D text generator from Fusion, available for editing and customizing right in the Edit page. It’s capable of most of what the Text generator can do, with the exception of rich text editing and a lack of on-screen controls in the Timeline Viewer. However, it also has many more styling and animation controls than the Text generator has.
The new Text+ title generator, along with new Fusion titles below
You can use the Text+ generator the same way you use any generator in the Edit page. Simply edit it into a video track of the Timeline, select it, and open the Inspector to edit and keyframe its numerous properties to create whatever kind of title you need.
In addition to having many more styling options, the origin of the Text+ generator in a compositing tool means that it offers many more panels worth of keyframable parameters, along with advanced animation controls built-in. These include keyframable Write On/Write Off controls, layout and animation using shapes (options include point, frame, circle, and path), character, word, and line transforms and animation, advanced shading, and full interlacing support.
Four panels of the Text+ title generator, including Text, Layout, Transform, and Shading