Skills audit:Livetype and Sound

In one of our tutorials we learnt how to use livetype and sound so that we will be able to add titles, aswell as sound when making our title sequence .

Livetype

Livetype is a programme used to add titles aswell as the effects of the title that fits in with the genre of the title sequence.

When you open livetype, there should be a white blank square on the left and side. This is where you would preview your text.

To insert a title there are two options, you can right it in the grey square that is next to the white square on the right, or is you are considering writing alot of text you can write it in the other grey square that is underneath it.

When writing your text and are not happy with he text or effect of it, there are tabs right on the left hand side that have different sort of effects the first tab; livefonts is if you want your texts to be very animated. The are also categories within each tab for more different types of effects. The next tab; fonts, is just for the actual style of the font not the effects. The next two tabs; textures and objects are for adding a background to the texts. The last tab; effects is self explanatory. It just gives you a wider variety of effects without changing the actual font of it unlike the first tab. When you have chosen and effect or style there are two buttons at the bottom of it that says apply.

Click apply so that the effect will be added to that title. If you want to preview the title, there is a time line at the bottom. Press the space bar to preview the titles. If you wanted to add your titles on the actual clip, input and output your your clip on final cut pro, go to file>export>for livetype and save as a new clip. When you have done that go back to the live type programme and go to file>place background movie and open up your file.

Soundtrack Pro

Soundtrack pro is a programme for adding sound effects, instrumentals and making your own music. When you have opened up soundtrack, the left hand side is for adding a video so that you an preview it with the sound and make sure that they coincide with each other.

In the middle is where you would be adding the sound at the time and length you want, like final cut pro, there is a cutting tool to cut the piece of sound.

To get our desired sound or sound effect, you will see on the bottom right hand corner, there are three effects; Browser, search and favourites. People mostly used search but if you have found a sound from another programme you can open it up through browser. The search tab has different categories to help you find the sound your are looking for.

When you have chosen the sound, click and drag it to the timeline.