fonts used in the apple themes?

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows exactly what font Apple uses in their various new iMovie 06 themes. I would like to keep the font constant through my whole movie, but I can't seem to find the same font.

I am particularly looking for the Reflection - White font, but I would like a full list for future reference.

Thanks!

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Feb 28, 2006 3:18 PM

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Mar 2, 2006 1:03 PM in response to Tim Mcpherson

THEME : FONT
Reflection : Baskerville
PassThrough : Impact

Road Trip : Helvetica-Bold for "Open"
Road Trip : American Typerwriter for "Credits"
Road Trip : StoneSansITCTT-Semi & BrushScriptMT for "Chapter"
Road Trip : MarkerFelt-Thin for "Lower Third"

Travel : BigCaslon-Medium for "Open" & "Bumper 2"
Travel : Baskerville-SemiBoldItalic for "Chapter 1" & "Lower Third" & "Credits 1" & "Credits 2"
Travel : Baskerville for "Chapter 2"
Travel : Baskerville-SemiBold for "Bumper 1" & "Bumper 3"

Enjoy.

Mar 3, 2006 12:10 PM in response to Karl Petersen

Actually, you can open up the Quartz Composer compositions that are in the Theme packages in "Quartz Composer". Way deep in those patches, you can see the font designations.

It's quite cool to play in this world.

If you make a copy of the Theme, you can even change the font and see how it looks. I have not tried to modify the Themes and try them out in iMovie but I don't see why changing the font would not work. But this is drifting way off topic...

Cheers,
David

PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz 1GB / Power Mac G4 733 MHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Mar 3, 2006 4:38 PM in response to David Rice

Actually, you can open up the Quartz Composer
compositions that are in the Theme packages in
"Quartz Composer". Way deep in those patches, you can
see the font designations.


I'm lost, David. Where are you finding "Quartz Composer"? The only "Quartz Composer" I see is "Quartz Composer.app", part of Developer tools. But that's not probably what you mean.

There's no Quartz Composer in Library/Application Support/iMovie/Themes. There are iMovie theme bundles there, but nothing about Quartz Composer, and there's nothing in the .plists of the bundles about fonts. (At least that I can see.)

Please point me in the right direction.

Karl

Mar 3, 2006 5:31 PM in response to Karl Petersen

Sorry Karl:
Warning: Make a Copy BEFORE doing anything with these files.

Yes, I know, you would, Karl 🙂

The Quartz Composer IS the QC I mean. Inside the Theme packages are Quartz Composer compositions (.qtz files).

Inside the Theme packages/Content/Resources/ are some .qtz files.

For example, in the Travel Theme, is the file Bumper1.qtz.

In QC open this file and in the Editor Click on the Hierarchy Browser button.

Drill down to the 2nd 3D Transformation.

Scroll to find the "Image With String" Patch. Patches are the boxes with wires coming and going.

Click on the Image With String patch and then click on the Inspector Button at the top of the QC Editor.

In the Inspector, Choose the "Input Parameters" tab. In there you should see a field with the Font-Name for this particular element. (Baskerville-SemiBold)

Choose the Settings Pane and you should see a popup with the name "Set Font Name Input". You can select a different font there.

In the Viewer window, click on the open tool bar button and then click on the Gear button. A panel will slide down and in there you will see a few parameters, one being the Title 1 edit field. In the viewer window, you should see the text "Title 1" in whatever face you have chosen. If you type in a different title, you will see that as well.

There is much much more fascinating exploring to be done but I must leave some of that up to you...

Make sure that you are doing this with a copy because iMovie may not like you messing around with its innards. And, if you have a copy of the original, you can always restore it.

Cheers, and please let me know how you make out.

David



PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz 1GB / Power Mac G4 733 MHz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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