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Page 1: User Guide
• • • • • • User Guide Ver s i o n 2 . 0...
Page 2 You can also contact technical support by calling (617) 451-9900 or e-mailing techsupport@artelsoft.com. The information in this guide is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, Boris FX, Inc. assumes no responsibility for its use; nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use.
Page 3: Table Of Contents
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Boris Calligraphy Release Information ........... 5 New Features in Boris Calligraphy 2.0 .
Page 4 • • • • • • Creating Font Styles..........33 Naming and Deleting Styles .
Page 5: Release Information
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Release Information Welcome to Boris Calligraphy 2.0. Boris Calligraphy 2,0 is an update to Boris Calligraphy 2.0 for Apple Final Cut Pro for Mac OS X. This section contains information regarding new features in Calligraphy 2.0.
Page 6: Understanding The Boris Text Generators
• • • • • • Understanding the Boris Text Generators Boris Calligraphy includes four Final Cut Pro Generators: Title 3D, Title Crawl, Vector and Text Scrambler. Title 3D offers vector-based text that can be manipulated in 3D Space with full pivot control, animated tracking and other text transformations.
Page 7: Understanding The Calligraphy Text Controls
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Understanding the Calligraphy Text Controls The following controls appear in the Calligraphy Text window. Working with Sliders You can adjust parameters that use sliders via three methods; drag the slider, scrub the numerical Drag here to scrub.
Page 8: Understanding Vector Graphics And Bitmaps
• • • • • • Understanding Vector Graphics and Bitmaps A bitmap image is an image represented by a grid of pixels, each of which is assigned a speciÞc color. This produces a coherent image when viewed at the intended size, but if scaled dramatically the pixels become apparent and the image loses quality.
Page 9: Working With The Text Window
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Working with the Text Window The parameters in the Text window allow you to create, import, and edit text for inclusion in your effect. The upper portion of the Text window is the text preview area. You can type text in this area, then select one or more characters to make style changes using the Style, Page, Color, Border, and Shadow tabs.
Page 10: Working With Tabs And Rulers
• • • • • • Using Contextual Menus in the Text Window You can use contextual menus in the Text window to cut, copy, and paste text.You can also change the color of the Text window background. Control-click or Right-click the Text window to open its contextual menu. Choose the appropriate menu item: •...
Page 11: Resetting Text Styles
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Tab justiﬁed right Tab justiﬁed left Resetting Text Styles To reset parameters in the selected text, click the Reset Style button. Any parameter changes that you made in any of the Text window’s tabs are reset to the default.
Page 12: Previewing Text
• • • • • • Previewing Text The Style Preview menu sets which styles display in the text preview area. All Styles previews the text as it will appear in the Viewer window. Basic Styles does not display shadows, borders, and some Style tab transformations (Style Skew, Style Scale, Style Baseline).
Page 13: Working With The Style Tab
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Working with the Style Tab The Style tab controls allow you to set the font, size, and style of the text, in addition to the tracking, leading and kerning of the characters. Use the Font menu to choose a font from the list of fonts available on your system.
Page 14 • • • • • • Justifying Text To align text horizontally, click a JustiÞcation button. The text is justiÞed in relation to the page width and height. This parameter affects the text globally, regardless of which characters are currently selected. The JustiÞcation buttons in the second row justify the text to both margins when you work with more than one line of text.
Page 15 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Leading adjusts the spacing, in pixels, between multiple lines of text. This parameter affects the currently selected lines of text. Style Skew X and Style Skew Y distort the selected character(s) along the horizontal and vertical axis, respectively.
Page 16 • • • • • • Style Hue adjustments Style Hue= 90 degrees Style Hue=130 degrees Style Hue=180 degrees Style Baseline adjusts the vertical position of the selected character(s) in relation to the baseline of the text. Decrease this value to move the bottom of the character below the baseline, or increase this value to raise the character above the baseline.
Page 17: Working With The Page Tab
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Working with the Page Tab The Page tab controls allow you to adjust the margins and to set the size of the text page. Text Wrap controls the position of the text when the text is wider than the screen. •...
Page 18: Working With The Fill Tab
• • • • • • Working with the Fill Tab The Fill tab options allow you to set the Þll and opacity of the selected text. Select the Fill On checkbox to turn on the Þll. Deselect this option to create transparent text. For example, you could turn off the Þll and turn on a border to create hollow text.
Page 19: Working With Gradients
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Working with Gradients A gradient is a graduated blending of two or more colors. The Boris Text Generators let you map gradients to text. You can use the Gradient Editor to set the colors and opacity, the shape and direction of the gradient, and the gradient’s steepness—that is, how quickly each color changes to the next color.
Page 20: Adding And Deleting Color Stops
• • • • • • Drag midpoint to adjust where colors blend equally. Drag color stop to adjust Click anywhere in this area Drag color stop to adjust f t t Adding and Deleting Color Stops A gradient can have up to sixteen color stops. You can add color stops by clicking in the area directly below the gradient editor.
Page 21: Setting The Shape And Direction Of The Gradient
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • The Color Ramp lets you quickly pick a color using the eyedropper. Click the color ramp before you select the eyedropper if you want to toggle the ramp to a grayscale image. Alpha sets the transparency of the selected stop.
Page 22 • • • • • • Angle=45° Angle=90° Radial Gradient Type A Radial gradient places the start color at the center and blends outward toward the end color. Center X determines the location of the gradient center on the X axis. This value scales as a percentage in which 0 represents the left edge of the frame, 50 represents the middle, and 100 represents the right edge of the frame.
Page 23 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Contour Gradient Type A Contour gradient places the start color along all four edges of the frame and blends inward toward the end color in the center of the frame. Fade determines the width of the gradient between the start and end colors.
Page 24 • • • • • • Angle=10 Angle=80 Edge Gradient Type The Edge gradient type combines the contour and a bevel shapes. This creates a beveled pyramid effect in which the four colors of the sides of the pyramid move from the start to the end color and blend inward toward the middle color in the center of the frame.
Page 25 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Revolve Gradient Type A Revolve gradient emanates from a center point. By animating the Angle parameter, you can create a clock wipe type of gradient effect. Center X determines the location of the gradient center on the X axis. This value scales as a percentage in which 0 represents the left edge of the frame, 50 represents the center, and 100 represents the right edge of the frame.
Page 26: Working With The Border Tab
• • • • • • Working with the Border Tab The Border tab allows you to apply up to Þve different border styles to the edges of the selected text. The parameters in this tab can be used to create beveled or glowing text effects. Click one of the numbered Border Style tabs to create a new border style.
Page 27 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Plain applies a ßat border to the text. When Plain is chosen, Edge Softness softens the edge of the border. A value of 0 creates a border with a hard edge, and raising this value increasingly softens the border.
Page 28: Working With The Shadow Tab
• • • • • • Working with the Shadow Tab The Shadow tab applies up to Þve different shadows to the selected text. Like the other parameters in the Text window, the Shadow tab parameters cannot be animated. If you want to animate text shadows, create text without shadows in the Text window.
Page 29 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Shadow Color sets the color of the shadow. Click the color chip to access the system color picker, or use the eyedropper to choose a color from the screen. You can also enter RGB values into the numerical Þelds associated with the color control and press Return.
Page 30: Working With The Style Palette
• • • • • • Working with the Style Palette The Style Palette allows you to save and categorize styles for text for future use. The styles are organized into tabs. The Style Palette also includes a collection of preset styles. Tab menu Category menu Rebuild category...
Page 31: Opening The Style Palette
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Opening the Style Palette Click the Style Palette button in the Text window. Categorizing Styles Use the Add Category button to create categories to organize your styles. For example, to use a group of styles in one project, create a category for that project. The Style Palette must include at least one category for you to create new styles.
Page 32: Creating And Saving Styles
• • • • • • Creating and Saving Styles The procedure for creating and saving styles depend on the type of style you are creating. Creating Text Styles Use the parameters in the Text window to adjust the style as desired. Click the Style Palette button in the Text window.
Page 33: Creating Font Styles
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Creating Font Styles The Style Palette lets you save thumbnails of all the available fonts on your system in the Fonts tab. The Þrst time you launch this tab you have to add a category. After that you only need to rebuild the category if you add more fonts to your system.
Page 34: Applying Styles
• • • • • • Applying Styles The procedure for creating and saving styles depend on the type of style you are creating. Applying Text Styles In the Text window, select the text to which you want to apply the style. Select individual characters or press Command-A to select all text.
Page 35: Editing Styles
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Editing Styles You can edit styles directly in the Style Palette using the Edit Selected Style button. This applies to Gradient and Color styles. For example, if you select a Color style and click the Edit Selected Style button, the system color picker opens.
Page 36: Working With The Title 3D Generator
• • • • • • Working with the Title 3D Generator Title 3D offers vector-based text that can be manipulated in 3D Space with full pivot control, animated tracking and other text transformations including type on effects. Once you set the characteristics of the individual text characters in the Text window, you can animate the text.
Page 37: Working With The Pivot Parameter Group
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Scale X and Scale Y change the size of the object along the X and Y axes, respectively. These parameters are scaled as percentages of the object’s original width or height. Thus, a Scale X setting of 200 produces text twice as wide as the original text.
Page 38 • • • • • • Letter Skew X and Letter Skew Y distort text along the horizontal and vertical axis. Letter Skew X= –25 Letter Skew X=0 Letter Skew X=25 Letter Skew Y= –25 Letter Skew Y=0 Letter Skew Y=25 Letter Scale X and Letter Scale Y set the scale of the text along the horizontal and vertical axis.
Page 39: Working With The Type On Parameter Group
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Working with the Type On Parameter Group The Type On parameter group offers several options for creating animated writing or “type- on” effects. Text Type On adjusts the percentage of the text that is visible in each frame, allowing you to create animated typing effects.
Page 40 • • • • • • Press the Apply To menu and choose the appropriate option. • Letter applies the effect to individual letters and characters. • Word applies the effect to individual words. Words are deÞned as characters that are separated by a space in the Text window.
Page 41 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • character Fades, Shifts, Skews, Tumbles, Spins, and/or Rotates for 0.5 seconds (50% of 1), and subsequently remains stationary for the rest of the effect. In this case, the next letter does not appear for another 0.5 seconds after the previous letter stops animating. Acceleration allows you to gradually accelerate the effect.
Page 42 • • • • • • Scale X and Scale Y adjust the starting size of the characters. The default value is 100, in which the text types on full size. If you decrease the value, the text appears to grow as it types on;...
Page 43: Working With The Title Crawl Generator
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Working with the Title Crawl Generator The Title Crawl Generator enables you to easily animate a text page. The Title Crawl Generator automatically keyframes the text page to roll or crawl across the screen. This Generator automatically aligns and animates the text page so that you do not have to set keyframes in the timeline.
Page 44: Animating Text
• • • • • • Animating Text The Controls tab in the Viewer contains parameters which control the movement of the text tracks. Selecting the 1:2:1 Deßicker checkbox applies a vertical blur to the effect to help eliminate ßickering and reduce jagged edges on moving graphics with hard edges. Select 1:2:1 Deßicker if the Animation Style menu is set to Roll.
Page 45 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • The Animation Style menu determines what type of animation is applied to the text track. When the Animation Style menu is set to None, the text tracks are not animated. To create a roll, choose Roll from the Animation Style menu.When you create a text roll, the Title Crawl Generator automatically keyframes the text page to roll up the screen.
Page 46 • • • • • • Blend Start and Blend End soften the edges of the mask, causing titles to “fade” into and out of the masked region. Text roll with blended mask Time 00:00:01:00 Time 00:00:02:00 The Reverse Direction checkbox reverses the direction of the roll or crawl, causing tracks to move from top to bottom instead of bottom to top (text roll) or from left to right instead of right to left (text crawl).
Page 47 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • When the Lock Pivot to Position checkbox is selected, the text tumbles, spins, and rotates around its own center. If this option is deselected, you can set an external pivot point around which to tumble, spin, or rotate.
Page 48 • • • • • • The Use Percent Completion checkbox determines whether the text auto-animates or is animated manually. When this checkbox is selected, Percent Completion animates the position of the text. When this checkbox is deselected, Percent Completion has no affect. When the Continuously Rasterize checkbox is selected, the vector form of the text is forced to recalculate based on Transformations parameter changes.
Page 49: Working With The Vector Shape Generator
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Working with the Vector Shape Generator The Vector Shape Þlter allows you to quickly create color backdrops behind text using rectangular or oval shapes. You can add a border and set the Þll of the backdrop using the Border and Fill parameter groups.
Page 50: Working With The Primitive Shape Parameter Group
• • • • • • When using the Continuously Rasterize option, set up the effect with the option disabled to improve preview performance. Then select the option as a Þnal step to improve the quality of the render. You only need to select the Continuously Rasterize checkbox for any Transformations. The Vector form of the backdrop is always recalculated for any scaling or rotating or repositioning in the Primitive Shape, Border 1, Border 2, Border 3, Shape Fill and Shadow parameter groups.
Page 51: Working With The Border 1, Border 2 And Border 3 Parameter Groups
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Corner Type=Convex Corner Type=Concave Corner Type=Straight Working with the Oval When the Shape Primitive menu is set to Oval, Shape Left, Shape Top, Shape Right, and Shape Bottom control the positions of the corners of a rectangle in which the oval is inscribed.
Page 52 • • • • • • Color sets the color of the border. Click the color chip to access the system color picker, or use the eyedropper to choose a color from the screen. Width sets the width, in pixels, of the border. Opacity adjusts the opacity of the border.
Page 53: Working With The Shape Fill Parameter Group
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Flat Flat/Round Flat/Bevel Miter Round Bevel Working with the Shape Fill Parameter Group The Shape Fill parameters set the Þll of the backdrop. Select the Fill On checkbox to turn on the Þll. Deselect this option to leave the backdrop unÞlled.
Page 54 • • • • • • Master Scale lets you adjust Scale parameters globally. Parameters can still be changed independent of one another by using the individual Scale parameters. For example, you set Scale X to 100 and Scale Y to 200 to create a backdrop that is stretched vertically. If you then set Master Scale to 200, the resulting backdrop is twice as wide and four times as tall as the original.
Page 55 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • If you rotate your backdrop using the Tumble, Spin or Rotate parameters, PreRotate Position Z positions the backdrop ignoring any of these transformations and uses the original coordinates of the plane. This parameter can show a different result than adjusting the Position Z parameter which positions the backdrop after any rotations are applied.
Page 56: Working With The Shadows Parameter Group
• • • • • • Working with the Shadows Parameter Group The Shadows parameter group applies one of three types of shadows to the backdrop. The Shadow Type menu determines what type of shadow is created. • None does not apply a shadow. •...
Page 57: Working With The Text Scrambler
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Working with the Text Scrambler Text Scrambler randomizes or shufßes text characters and text styles in a variety of ways and will jitter the size, position, hue and angle of text characters. Many of the Text Scrambler parameters are similar to the Title 3D parameters.
Page 58: Working With The Variations Parameter Group
• • • • • • When using the Continuously Rasterize option, set up the effect with the option disabled to improve preview performance. Then select the option as a Þnal step to improve the quality of the render. You only need to select the Continuously Rasterize checkbox for any Page Transformations. The Vector form of the text is always recalculated for any scaling or rotating or repositioning of text characters in the Variations, Letter Transformations, Type On, and Jitter parameter groups.
Page 59 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Text entered into Text window • Alphabetical Text uses only alphabetical characters, offset by the Letter Variation amount. For example, all the “l” characters from the original “Grilled” word are now “w.” •...
Page 60 • • • • • • • Style Shufße randomly shufßes the styles assigned to each character to that of another style used in the Text window. The text must use multiple styles or this choice has no affect. • Style by Word looks at the style of the Þrst letter of each word and assigns that style to entire words at random.
Page 61: Working With The Page Transformations Parameter Group
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Scramble Characters allows you to vary the characters from frame to frame. When you use Letter Variation parameter to adjust the characters, the characters are offset by the same amount. For example, all the “e” characters from the original “Generator” text are now “x.” You can randomize this, using the Scramble Characters parameter.
Page 62 • • • • • • Tumble, Spin, and Rotate move the text around the X, Y, and Z axis respectively. Tumble, Spin, and Rotate can animate over values greater than 360° to make the image complete more than one full revolution. Tumble =-65 Degrees Spin=65 Degrees Rotate=65 Degrees...
Page 63: Working With The Letter Transformations Parameter Group
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Working with the Letter Transformations Parameter Group Tracking controls the global horizontal spacing of the characters in the effect. Unlike the Tracking parameter in the Text window, you can animate this tracking parameter. Tracking= 0 Tracking= 25 Tracking= 50...
Page 64: Working With The Type On Parameter Group
• • • • • • Letter Tumble, Letter Spin, and Letter Rotate rotate the text characters around their baseline’s X, Y, and Z axis, respectively. Compare how this appears with the Page Transformations parameter group’s Tumble, Spin and Rotate parameters which move the entire text layer around the axis.
Page 65 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Click the Always Visible checkbox to force all text characters to remain visible. The Type On feature applies transformations progressively to text characters. When this checkbox is deselected, characters progressively appear or disappear from the frame. Selecting the Always Visible checkbox forces characters to remain visible while the transformations are progressively applied.
Page 66 • • • • • • Overshoot allows you to create bouncing text effects, when combined with any parameters except Fade. Each character moves past its destination position or scale by the value speciÞed in Overshoot before returning to its destination position or scale. This parameter only affects animations created with the Shift, Scale, Skew, Tumble, Spin, and/or Rotate parameters.
Page 67 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Skew X and Skew Y set the starting Skew values for the characters in relation to their Þnal skew values (controlled by the Skew X and Skew Y values set in the Text window and in the Page Transformations parameter group).
Page 68: Working With The Jitter Parameter Group
• • • • • • Working with the Jitter Parameter Group The Jitter parameters randomize text parameters including Position, Angle, Scale, Hue and Opacity. Jitter parameters are expressed as a percentage and are applied to individual characters. All parameters have a range of 0 to 100, except Scale which has a range of 0 to 600.
Page 69: About The Tutorial Exercises
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • About the Tutorial Exercises The following tutorial exercises provide step-by-step instructions for creating various kinds of text effects. These tutorials do not require any speciÞc media Þles, although the Þrst exercise uses an imported text Þle. If you do not have the text Þle, you can complete the exercise by typing or importing text.
Page 70 • • • • • • Select all the text that you just typed by pressing Command-A. In the Style tab in the Text window, use the Font and Font Size menus to set the font and size of the text. Click the Center JustiÞcation button to center justify the text.
Page 71 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • 11. Click the Shadow tab to open the shadow controls. Click to select the Shadow On checkbox next to the Shadow 1 tab to apply the appropriate style. The illustrations in this exercise use a Solid Shadow, with the parameters set as illustrated below, but you can apply whatever type of shadow you like.
Page 72: Exercise Two: Creating An Animated Tracking Effect
• • • • • • Exercise Two: Creating an Animated Tracking Effect Upon completion of the exercise in the section you should be able to: • Create and format text in the Text window. • Use the Gradient Editor to map a gradient to text. •...
Page 73: Saving And Applying Styles
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Click the Gradient Editor icon to open the Gradient Editor window. Click here to create additional color stops. Selected color stop Adjust the color for each color stop by selecting the color stop, then use the Selected Color Stop controls to choose the color you want.
Page 74 • • • • • • The Style Palette opens with the style Delete Category you are currently using displayed in the thumbnail in the left column. Text tab To create a category, click the Add Category menu Category icon. Add Category Type “My Styles”...
Page 75 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • A dot appears at the beginning of the green line in the Viewer, indicating a keyframe has been added. Set the Opacity value to 0 by dragging the slider or clicking the numerical Þeld, typing 0, and pressing Return.
Page 76: Exercise Three: Creating A Credit Roll
• • • • • • Exercise Three: Creating a Credit Roll Upon completion of the exercise in the section you should be able to: • Create and format credit rolls using a text page. • Import text into the Text window. •...
Page 77: Creating The Credit Roll
• • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Style tab Font menu Font size menu Center Justiﬁcation button Click the Apply button save your changes and close the Text window. Complete the steps in the next section to animate your effect. Creating the Credit Roll Select your background track in the timeline.
Page 78: Exercise Four: Creating An Animated Type On Effect
• • • • • • Position the playhead somewhere in the middle of the clip. This allows you to see the text as you make your adjustments. Set the Mask Start and Mask End values to .13 by dragging the slider or clicking the numerical Þeld, typing .13, and pressing Return.
Page 79 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • The illustrations in this exercise use Eddie Fisher font at 132 points, but you can use whatever type of text you like. Click the Force Center JustiÞcation button. When the text appears the way that you want, click Apply then close the Text window. Make sure that Text Wrap is set to No Wrap.
Page 80: Exercise Five: Creating Text With A Backdrop
• • • • • • 15. Preview the animation. The text now scales and shifts as it types on screen. Time 00:00:01:00 Time 00:00:02:00 Time 00:00:03:00 16. In the Type On parameter group, set Overshoot to -100. 17. Preview the animation. The text now appears to bounce as it scales and shifts. Exercise Five: Creating Text with a Backdrop In this exercise you will create text with a backdrop using both the Title 3D and Vector Shape Þlters.
Page 81 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • Choose Boris from the Generator menu in the Viewer. Then choose Vector Shape from the submenu. Drag the backdrop from the Viewer to the Canvas. When the Edit Overlay appears, position the image in the Superimpose section and release the mouse button. The clip appears in the Timeline.
Page 82: Exercise Six: Creating A Text Scrambler Effect
• • • • • • 18. In the Border 1 parameter group, click the Add Keyframe button for the Border End parameter. 19. Move the playhead to time 00:00:01:00. Set Border End to 100. The Border now animates on. Time 00:00:00:00 Time 00:00:00:20 Time 00:00:01:00...
Page 83 • • Boris Calligraphy • • • • In the Page Transformations parameter group in the Controls tab, adjust Position X/Y so that the text appears at the bottom third of the screen. Set Master Scale to 22. Set Scale X to 90. Move the playhead to the beginning of the clip.
Page 84 • • • • • • 17. In the Type On parameter group, set Text Type On to 100. Setting this parameter to 100 stops characters from typing on until the end of the effect. 18. Preview the effect. The words reveal themselves in a wave-like effect. Time 00:00:00:00 Time 00:00:02:03 Time 00:00:02:14...