Looking for a LiveType tutorial

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Looking for a LiveType tutorial

I know this is the FCE support site, but I have looked around the net, Live Type Central, LiveType Support, etc. Could not find the anwer to my question. Wondering if someone knows about it. About five years ago I animated the LiveType Script font to look like it was handwriting the title. All I recall is that it was a lot of work involving many layers. Title was only 7 letters long with no spacing, so I toughed it out. It looked super so I felt it was worth the effort. The title I want to do now is three words long involving 23 characters (including the comma) and 3 spaces. Is this just a crazy-making thought? Is there an easier way than LiveType? (I don't have Motion or AE).

Thanks in advance.

iMac OSX, Mac OS X (10.5.6), LaCie d2 Extreme

Posted on Jan 11, 2012 11:55 AM

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Answer 1

Russ H

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Jan 11, 2012 6:15 PM in response to Lee Miles

It's been a few years since I've done anything in LT.

Motion's text capabilities make it really worth learning for titling concepts. It's not hard and it can produce great results – better than I could do on LT.

So consider downloading Motion and experiment – or try Motion out on someone else's Mac. (AE is a bigger commitment.)

Good luck.

Russ

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Answer 2

Lee Miles Author

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Jan 11, 2012 6:23 PM in response to Russ H

Thanks, Russ. I'm going to investigate Motion. It may be something I could use.

Lee

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