Titler – BROADFIELD NEWS

Time to stop hating Avid Titler+!

Jennifer P — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:00:00 +0000

In this article by Kevin P. McAuliffe for ProVideo Coalition, the author explores the evolution of Avid’s Titler+ tool and makes a case for overcoming the initial negative perceptions surrounding it. McAuliffe begins with a brief history, explaining how Apple’s system architecture changes rendered Avid’s legacy Title Tool and Marquee obsolete for Mac users. This forced Avid to quickly release Titler+, which was initially plagued by usability issues and limitations, leaving many users frustrated. However, the recent 2024.10 update to Media Composer introduces significant improvements to Titler+, making it a much more viable tool for content creators.

McAuliffe highlights key changes that bring Titler+ in line with other popular applications like Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve. Unlike the legacy tools, Titler+ generates titles dynamically rather than creating physical media clips, requiring a shift in workflow for Avid editors. While this change brings advantages, such as cleaner scaling and consistent vector-based text, it also introduces drawbacks, such as the inability to add external effects like those from Continuum or Sapphire directly to titles. The article emphasizes the importance of adapting to this new system and provides practical advice for working effectively with Titler+.

The update includes a redesigned interface, improved functionality, and tools like the Anchor Point, which offers greater flexibility for text placement and animation. However, McAuliffe notes inconsistencies, such as how the Anchor Point behaves differently when adjusted dynamically versus through the Effect Editor. Despite these quirks, features like better text scaling and alignment with Media Composer’s coordinate system make Titler+ a more robust tool for title creation.

McAuliffe also examines the Foreground parameter, a new feature that simplifies animating multiple titles simultaneously. This tool enables editors to adjust opacity, crop titles, and apply uniform effects across all titles in a frame, though it lacks certain refinements like feathering for crop transitions. Additionally, the update introduces improved font support, streamlined rolls and crawls, and better cross-platform compatibility, further enhancing the overall user experience.

In conclusion, McAuliffe acknowledges Avid’s missteps with the initial release of Titler+ but asserts that the latest updates have significantly improved the tool. While not perfect, Titler+ now offers a compelling option for Media Composer users, especially those willing to adapt their workflows to leverage its modern features. McAuliffe encourages editors to set aside their past frustrations and embrace the new capabilities of Titler+.

Read the full article by Kevin P. McAuliffe for ProVideo Coalition HERE

Learn more about Avid Media Composer HERE

A Fresh Look at Avid Titler+

Jennifer P — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0000

The video showcases the improvements in Avid Titler+ for Media Composer 2024.10, focusing on its enhanced performance, usability, and stability for creating and managing text in video editing. Michael Kruck guides viewers through the user interface, explaining key features and functionalities such as the effect editor, dashboard, and various text formatting options.

Learn more about Avid HERE

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Jennifer P — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:40:37 +0000

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NewBlue Titler Live Tutorials are here!

Jim Bask — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:58:41 +0000

Here are the new tutorials for Titler Live 4 that you can share with your team and customers:

NewBlue Tutorials Page – https://www.newbluefx.com/tutorials/?type=&category%5B%5D=titler-live
YouTube Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgt2I5H-qpfhaE44vAswkOWjGM1wHZJDu

The series features 22 new walkthroughs and how to’s on how to get started in Titler Live and leverage key inputs, outputs and work in the Title Designer.

NewTek NDI gets NewBlue’s Titler Live Broadcast

Jim Bask — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:54:24 +0000

NewTek NDI’s first third party sign-up, NewBlue’s Titler Live Broadcast, boasts advanced titling and lower thirds graphics and could be the first in a wave of NDI-compatible applications.

Replacing traditional SDI systems with IP technology is something that promises to save big pots of gold, although it principally applies to those of us who are involved in big live studio installs or OB work. It’s a tool of the live or as-live production world, which is understandably interested in building video infrastructure out of commodity-priced information technology hardware, as opposed to the industry-specific SDI routers and switchers that are normally used.

Perhaps the biggest push for this has revolved around uncompressed video, ultra-low latency and the sort of requirements imposed by big broadcasters. These requirements mean that only the best, latest and fastest computer networking gear can do the job – right now, it’s barely cheaper than the SDI option, if it all.

NDI as standard

NewTek’s NDI initiative is an alternative designed quite specifically to send production video over IP networks in a way that doesn’t have these exotic requirements, with the result that it can often use gigabit Ethernet networks that already exist or which can be built very inexpensively. This approach creates something that is usable now, as opposed to demanding the last corpuscle of performance and tolerating the fact that it won’t be widely deployable for a few years. NDI has found favour, not only because of the relatively undemanding infrastructure requirements, but also because NewTek has actively encouraged third-party development of compatible tools. To be fair, the effort to standardise high-bandwidth, uncompressed video over IP is also very concerned with interoperability, to the point where it’s becoming a real time sink. As a single company, NewTek has been free to make decisions and quickly create something that works.

One of the ways in which NewTek has encouraged third parties is to provide NDI-compatible applications through its online store, which has just seen the very first third-party sign-up. NewBlue’s Titler Live Broadcast is designed to produce lower thirds and other text and graphics for live production and currently goes for a hair under $1500. NewTek has enjoyed considerable interest in the software development kit for NDI, the second version of which is imminently due or may even be released as this article goes public.

Read the full article here!