Gallery of LiveType examples

Hi(Bonjour)!

Many national TV networks already use livetype.

See specialized channel (like sports, news) and you'll quickly recognize LT content, and sometime... template.

Michel Boissonneault

the main Boris site is full of great stuff.
LiveType? Might be a bit more difficult to locate concrete examples and even harder to get the recipes. You can google LiveType to get several of the online training providers and DVD training houses. They have clips from their products. Can't think of anything else except to agree with Michel, once you've started to recognize LT output, you see it everywhere.

bogiesan

Hi! I seem to be experiencing a great deal of difficulty in creating titles using LiveType. Haven't done one as yet. Is anyone out there has easy steps to make it work?

rbee

What is it about LT that is unintuitive?

Or what app do you use for creating titles that is intuitive?

Try:

http://www.livetypecentral.com/cgi-bin/livetypecentral
.cgi/tutorials.html
I agree that LivrType is unintuitive.

SteveKir,

Thank you fo suggesting 'Livetypecentral tutorials'. I have done the first one. I have to say it finally got me going and understand the basic of LiveType. You been very kind. I will let you know when I have done the rest.

Thank you

Comments:

1. It was direct and to the point.

2. No side lines or by-lines except what's basiclly needed for a beginner.

3. Co confusion ensued, so far.

4. Shall we recommend him for the Nobel only when I have finished?

Regards.

rbee

IMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

stevekir said "It took me some time to realise that if the length of an effect in the timeline is increased, it plays more slowly. The explanation (explanations mostly become apparent after a beginner has stumbled several times) seems to be that effects are movies, and if played over a longer time they have to play more slowly. Obvious (afterwards!)"

Some of the problem may be in your terminology. You are talking about "Objects" and not effects. Objects are in fact small QT movies, and dragging them out (lengthening them) in the TL will make them play slower. Shortening them will make them play quicker. The Objects are only as long as they are, and having them take longer obviously will make them play slower. Some effects can be looped and they will play indefinitely.

stevekir also said "It took me a long time to get Lightning bug to continue further than the middle of the Canvas (towards the right) despite using the tut. in (Ripple Training I think). I imagined, intuitively, that it would be a simple procedure of dragging the right hand side of its box, to elongate the box, but no."

Well, yes. Sort of. If you drag the right side of the bounding box you will make the object longer and it will 'seem' to travel farther to the right. But it does elongate the object and make it longer. My LB starts on screen at the left and travels completely off to the right in it's native form.

A lot depends on what a person means by 'intuitive'. I find it to be intuitive in a lot of ways, but I have been using it since before Apple bought it. It's a great system that does some amazing things. Most of the problems people have with LT is that they try to overthink it. It's really pretty simple, and that's what makes it beautiful.

stevekir also said 'There are other examples but I have forgotten them. However, it works, and produces impressive results.'

I like that last statement, and I totally agree with it. Let me know if you can think of others and I'll see if I can answer your questions.

bob