PAGE 76 VIDEONICS TITLEMAKER 3000
Titles and Video Editing
Titles greatly enhance an edited video. For instance, they can be used to
help tell the story, to introduce changes of time or place, to identify people or
settings, and to add credits. TitleMaker 3000 is the ideal companion for edit-
ing equipment of all kinds. You can add top-quality titles as you copy or edit
your original videotapes.
HowTitles areAdded toa Production
Titles are never added to a tape that has already been recorded. Instead
they are added as the original tape is being copied to a new tape. The original
tape remainsas it was andthe titles (as well asspecial effects and othermodi-
fications) are placed on the new tape along with the original footage. This
means you can use the same original tape for many different productions,
with different titles added to each production.
Titles can be combined with the video or created as separate, standalone
titles.
• The most common example of titles combined with video is when they are
superimposed over video, as with subtitles or when video is used as a pat-
tern choice. Another example is where a screen of titles fades or wipes to
the running video — video and titles are combined during the fade or wipe.
Be sure to read Chapter 19. It tells how to superimpose titles and explains
how to make superimposed titles come and go.
• Standalone titles are independent of any video footage. They appear over
TitleMaker 3000’s own colored or patterned backgrounds and no video
footage is involved.
Connections
To use TitleMaker in an editing setup, simply connect it between the VCR
or camcorder that will be playing your original tapes and the recorder, as
described in Chapters 3 and 4.
Concept
You can create a page of titles and record it immediately, then create the
next page and record that. But generally, it is more efficient to create a se-
quence of pages ahead of time. As the production is recorded, you trigger
(play) each page at the appropriate moment, displaying the page designed
for that point in the production. Blank pages are added to the sequence any-
where the production calls for untitled video to be displayed.
If you are using an automated edit controller with a “GPI trigger” output
(such as Videonics Thumbs Up or Edit Suite), the controller can automatically
trigger each page of titles at the right moments (as explained later).
Here are the steps for defining and using a sequence:
• View your original tape and visualize where titles will go. A “storyboard”
(diagrams on paper that show how scenes, titles, and effects unfold) is a
helpful aid.
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