Making MOTION text in Adobe ILLUSTRATOR

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Making MOTION text in Adobe ILLUSTRATOR

I make my video titles in MOTION with some basic text styles (face color, outline, glow). I make my DVD labels and jacket covers with Illustrator. Obviously, I want them to be the same. I am still trying to figure out the vocab of Illustrator and have not mastered how to replicate the exact effects I made in Motion. Does anyone have a better, more APPLE friendly workflow to do vector DVD labels and jackets OR does anyone know a way to integrate MOTION text style with ILLUSTRATOR.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Nov 16, 2008 7:41 AM

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Nov 16, 2008 4:42 PM in response to 08malesh

You could just export the files as PNG or TIFF and import that into illustrator.

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Nov 16, 2008 7:16 PM in response to ThatChineesYouth

I have done that as a last resort but the quality of the letters is not as good as doing the text in ILLUSTRATOR. Any other thoughts out there?

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Tony Gay

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Nov 16, 2008 7:35 PM in response to 08malesh

The issue is resolution, screen vs print, your video is something like 1024x576 pixels, or any one of the multitude of dimensions, print requires 200/300dpi depending on the print method, inkjet/laser/offset.

So you are creating a DVD slick, 27x18cm-ish, each face is about 13cm wide and 18cm high, at 300dpi you need to be supplying a file that is 1535pixels x 2126pixels. How to do this?

Take your motion motion project, save it as print version, change the project settings to reflect your desired output size and create your new masterpiece.

hope this idea helps

Tony

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08malesh Author

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Nov 16, 2008 7:47 PM in response to Tony Gay

Yes it is all about resolution and DPI. I am not seeing an option in MOTION to SAVE AS a "print version".

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Tony Gay

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Nov 16, 2008 8:01 PM in response to 08malesh

that is right, you are creating a video resolution version, if you want to upscale the video to be print artwork you are going to have to follow the steps outlined above and recreate your master piece at a higher resolution and then export a frame/still image.

Tony

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