ABSTRACT
Every program is enhanced with graphics, whether they are a simple opening title and closing credits or elaborate motion-graphics sequences illuminating some obscure point that can best be expressed in animation. This chapter discusses typical titling problems and how to deal with them. To create text animations for scrolling or rolling titles (vertical movement) or crawling titles (horizontal movement) in Final Cut Express, Title Crawl can be used. The Style pop-up menu allows to set text styles such as bold and italic. Tracking is the spacing distance between the letters in a word (not to be confused with kerning), which is the spacing between individual letter pairs. The higher the tracking value, the farther apart the letters will get. Final Cut Express allows to create many different types of animation for both motion and filters. Many of the text parameters, for instance, in the Text Controls tab can be animated.
