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Jun 21, 2006 Motion 2.1 Soundtrack Pro 1.1. LiveType 2.1 Compressor 2.1 Apple Qmaster 2.1 Final Cut Express HD 3.5. Post Date: Jun 21, 2006. File Size: 2.1MB. System Requirements.

Click 'Download' to get the full free document, or view any other Spartana PDF totally free. LiveType was a computer program developed by Apple Inc. To create animated title sequences for video projects. It was discontinued with the release of Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4. It was discontinued with the release of Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4. 71 downloads Updated: October 4, 2020 MIT License / Donationware.

Expert’s Rating

Pros

• Dynamic RT enables preview without rendering on a variety of Macs
• Included Soundtrack 1.5 and LiveType 2.1 much improved
• Full keyframe capability
• Universal application runs on Intel Macs

Our Verdict

How many shiny, new features make a software update worthwhile? A dozen? A handful? Three?

The quandary that potential purchasers face with Final Cut Express HD 3.5 , the new version of Apple’s intermediate digital video editing software, is that it only has three significant new features—most cocktail recipes include more ingredients. However, the advances in this update, while few, make it a more compelling upgrade than the move from version 2.0 to 3.0.

Universal appeal

When Apple began the migration to Intel-based Macs, the company pushed hard to release a Universal version of its professional Final Cut Studio suite—but there was no mention of Final Cut Express. That wouldn’t have been a big deal except that Final Cut Express wouldn’t run on an Intel Mac, leaving videographers who were ready to buy new hardware with a choice: fall back to iMovie HD 6 ( ) or move up to the $1,299 Final Cut Studio.

The first shiny, new feature in Final Cut Express HD 3.5 is Universal compatibility, taking advantage of the new Mac Intel architecture. In my testing, the application worked well on an older 1.25 GHz PowerBook G4, a dual 2.3 GHz Power Mac G5, a 17-inch 2.16 GHz MacBook Pro, and a 1.83 GHz MacBook (the latter two models powered by Intel Core Duo processors, of course).

Dynamic RT

Shiny feature number two is Dynamic RT, which promises to speed up your work—or at least get rid of the time you spend waiting for Final Cut Express to render footage.

Although Final Cut Express 2 ( ) introduced RT Extreme, the real-time effects preview that it offered applied to many—but not all—transitions and effects, depending on the speed of your computer. Dynamic RT, by contrast, provides real-time previews for everything.

Dynamic RT scales performance to maintain playback in real time without stuttering, depending on the Mac’s capabilities. A sequence with multiple layers of video, for example, played back with little difficulty on the Power Mac G5 and the MacBook Pro. On the PowerBook G4 and the MacBook, Dynamic RT reduced the resolution and frame rate of the video in the Canvas to compensate for the reduced processing power of those systems. The result isn’t the same as if you were to render the footage, but it’s good enough to give you a sense of whether the sequence works to your liking, and you don’t have to re-render it with every edit.

Keyframing

The third new feature in Final Cut Express HD 3.5 is the addition of full keyframe effects control, which lets you apply specific settings over time by defining them at a particular point on the timeline; this capability was previously reserved for Final Cut Pro. Earlier versions of Express supported some basic motion and audio keyframing, but now you can apply the technique to transitions and effects as well.

For example, you can now add keyframes to the Brightness and Contrast video effect to compensate for uneven lighting in a scene, or change the opacity of a clip over time.

Soundtrack 1.5 and LiveType 2.1

In addition to these three new features, the inclusion of improved versions of Soundtrack 1.5 and LiveType 2.1 helps enrich the Final Cut Express HD package.

Soundtrack 1.5 is actually not a revision of Soundtrack 1.2, which was included in the last release of Final Cut Express HD; instead, it is a new application built from the code base of Soundtrack Pro ( ). In the same way that Final Cut Express is essentially Final Cut Pro with many of the pro-level features removed, Soundtrack 1.5 adopts the interface and basic functionality of Soundtrack Pro.

Welcome features include real-time audio effects processing and a multi-take recording mode that’s helpful for creating voice-overs: specify a duration for the voice-over and start recording; when you reach the end of the clip, Soundtrack jumps back to the beginning so you can immediately record another take. You can then choose which version to use.

Instead of just a dedicated application for creating titles, LiveType 2.1—with 10 GB of new templates, effects, objects, and textures—now feels like a lite version of Motion, Apple’s professional motion-design application. The new LiveFonts (animated stylized fonts) in this version are vector-based and easily scale up to sizes that accommodate high-definition formats.

Macworld’s buying advice

While the number of changes in Final Cut Express HD 3.5 since the last version are few, the improvements are substantial. Dynamic RT alone makes editing easier for those of us who get fidgety while waiting for footage to render. The fact that the included programs are both much improved and Universal means you can budget for a new Intel-based Mac without adding the expense of the full Final Cut Studio suite.

[ Jeff Carlson is managing editor of TidBITS and the author of iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press, 2006). ]

LiveType was a computer program developed by Apple Inc. to create animated title sequences for video projects. It was discontinued with the release of Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4.^[1]

History[edit]

LiveType originated from a product called 'India Titler Pro,' by the Oregon-based company Prismo Graphics,^[2] founded by Tom Langmacher and Mary Massey (now Mary Wolf). Prismo Graphics hired Dave Howell of Pablo Media to write the software's code. Prismo Graphics, as well as the software, was acquired by Apple in June 2002.^[3]

The program first appeared as part of Final Cut Pro 4 in April 2003. It was updated to version 1.2 in the following year; this version was then included in Final Cut Express HD in 2005. Version 2 of LiveType was then released with version 5 of Final Cut Pro, and this was included in version 3.5 of Final Cut Express in May 2006. The program was packaged with Final Cut Studio until version 3. It is still packaged with Final Cut Express; it is not available to purchase separately.

Features[edit]

LiveType 2 includes over 11 gigabytes of content - including fonts, textures, objects, templates and effects. It can import any standard media files and can create text tracks whose style can be meticulously specified. In the canvas, the contour that the text follows can be edited, so that the titles can be on curved or shaped paths. All attributes of each title or character can be changed and keyframed, including the size, drop shadow, outline, extrusion, glow, opacity and tracking of the text.

LiveFont[edit]

A 'LiveFont' is one of the program's key features. These are fonts with animated characters. Examples of the LiveFonts shipped with LiveType are animated handwriting, smoke writing, fire, and blinking LED characters. It is also possible to create custom LiveFonts, but the necessity of generating a separate movie file for each letter makes the file sizes very large.

Templates[edit]

Apart from text, there is a wide range of animated objects and textures that can be added to a sequence, and there are a number of templates - such as title themes and lower thirds - in both PAL and NTSC formats that can be opened. Any image or movie file can also be placed and edited oMacWorld Review of India Titler Pro 1.0 in the canvas.

References[edit]

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1. ^Pogue, David (22 June 2011). 'Apple's Final Cut Is Dead. Long Live Final Cut'. New York Times. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
2. ^Heid, Jim (1 Feb 2002). 'India Titler Pro 1.0'. Macworld. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
3. ^Dalrymple, Jim (20 June 2002). 'Apple acquires technologies from Prismo Graphics'. Macworld. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

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