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A. Adding Transparency to your Font (Alpha Channel)

B. Adding a Pattern to your Font

C. Copy Font/Style to all lines

D. Moving the Title Box

E. Adding additional Text Boxes within one screen

F. Adding background to your text box

G. Default Title Screen

Adding transparency to your Fonts in titles can add a more elegant, creative

appearance.

1. Select 'Color' under the Style button in the Title Screen (after adding to

Storyboard and clicking 'Enter/edit text').

2. Click on the slider under 'Alpha' channel.

3. Sliding to the left will increase the opacity or transparency of your colored font

4. Depending on the scene, I find 75% - 85% looks nice.

1. Select 'Pattern' under the Style button in the Title Screen (after adding to

Storyboard and clicking 'Enter/edit text').

2. Click on the button to right of 'Product' and select from the software you have

active on your Casablanca. For example, Casablanca comes with every

system.

3. Next click on the button to right of 'Type' and select from the choices

available. In 'Casablanca' there are Masks, Monochromatic (black & white),

Polychromatic and Images.

4. You can even modify /add color to many of these images. Click on the

'Colorize' button beneath the preview window. Adjust the 'Colors' to either 1,

2 or 3, depending on the number of colors you wish. Then you can click on

the colors to bring up the color requester menu and make adjustments as you

wish (if you select 2 colors you will modify Color 1 and Color 3). Click OK

when done.

5. You can adjust the position of the pattern/effect by the choices under 'Mode'

6. And you can adjust the opacity of the pattern by adjusting the Alpha slider.

7. Click 'Ok' when done and you will see the pattern inside the title you are

creating (more narrow fonts do not show patterns too well).

You may be aware the Casablanca Titler is a line-oriented titler. This means

each line can have different fonts, sizes and styles. But once you type several

lines of text and then make a change sometimes you wish to change all lines to

conform to your new selection - here is how you do this (this is particularly useful

when composing a long line of credits to scroll at the end of your production).

1. With your titles typed, select the line of text you wish to copy to all the other

lines.

2. Click on 'Box Options'

3. If you wish to copy just the Font and/or its revised size to all other lines of text

click on 'Copy font to all lines'

4. If you wish to copy the revised style to all other lines of text click on 'Copy

style to all lines'.

5. You can click on both of these to copy all revised adjustments to all lines of

the current title screen.

There may be situations where you wish to have the title positioned over a

specific portion of the screen - for example just beneath a person or subject.

1. After adding your text, click on Box Options

2. I find it easiest to click on 'Min Size'. This reduces the title box to the area

surrounding your typed title (note the dotted pattern around your title).

3. Now click again on 'Box Options' and select 'Move Box'.

4. You can now move the trackball around which moves the title box around the

screen. Left click where you wish the title to be positioned.

(If you need to add more text into the box, you will need to go back into Box

Options and select either Size box to adjust the box to fit more text or click on

'visible size' which enlarges the box to full screen size again).

You can add more than one title or text box on the same screen with different

fonts and styles in each box!

1. Add your text for the first box and position it by using the steps listed above

2. Click again on 'Box Options' and then on 'Add box'. This will plant another

text box on-screen, which you can position wherever you desire.

3. Left clicking the trackball plants the top left corner into position. You can then

scroll the trackball to adjust the size of this box.

4. A second left click plants the box on-screen.

5. You can then type text into this new box, adjusting font, size and style!

You can add a number of these boxes and even make modifications to each box

by first left clicking on the box and then selecting the changes you wish to make.

Adding a transparent background to your text or title box creates a professional

looking title, especially useful when adding lower thirds titles - identifying

onscreen interviews, etc.

1. First type your title and adjust the Title Box to the size you wish to have a

shaded box appear. For example, when I am adding lower 3rds titles - I size

the box to stretch screen left to screen right and just a little taller (top and

bottom) than the letters.

2. Click again on 'Box Options' and click on 'Box-Background'. The default

setting has the transparent box checked. This means no background/shading

on the title box.

3. Click in the 'Transparent' box and you will see a pattern applied to the preview

window. You can add either a color or a pattern to the box background. We

will add a color here.

4. Click on 'Color' and then adjust the color requester to the hue you prefer. I

recommend adjusting for a high degree of transparency - something like 30-

40%

5. Click 'ok' twice and you will see that you have added a colored background to

your title box. Play a bit with the pattern choices and see what attractive titles

you can now create!

If you have a particular font and/or color/style that you find yourself using a lot,

here is a way to select those settings.

1. Go to the Titling window, but BEFORE adding the Title to the storyboard, click

on 'Enter/edit text'.

2. Select the Font/size and Color/Style you wish to have come up each time you

add a title. You can type in a sample title like your production company

name, etc.

3. Simply by clicking 'ok' you have set this as your new default title! Every time

you add a new title this will come up on-screen.

* It is imperative you do not use any unlicensed fonts in your default title screen.

Doing so may cause your titles to come up with the 'Demo' stamp when you go to

create and finish them.

To clear this situation, proceed through the above 3 steps but after clicking on

'Enter/edit' text, Delete all lines and even 'Delete Page' (under 'Page Options') to

ensure all previous text has been cleared.

With Smart Edit 4 and higher you have more ‘ink wells’ in your Color Palette. You

can also select or sample colors directly from a video scene by using the ‘Pick

Color’ button).

This feature is found in the New Scene; Pattern buttons in Edit Screen as well as

in the other menus where you have the option of selecting color for a

screen/effect. Once in the Color Palette, click on Pick Color, then Select Scene

and then adjust size and position so that the color picking box icon is sampling

the color you wish to select (the large color swatch indicates the color you have

selected).

Colored Patterns

1. In the Edit screen, click on ‘New’ and then select ‘Pattern’

2. Click on ‘Select Pattern’

3. Where it says ‘Type’ you can choose from any of the add-on products you

have

purchased like Video Spice Rack, the Split X collections or you can use the

masks

provided with your Casablanca like Smart Edit (previously called Casablanca in

earlier OS versions).

4. Under ‘Type’ select ‘Masks’ In the Smart Edit – Masks you have 6 different

patterns

click on one of them.

5. Then check the box next to ‘Colorize’ and click on ‘Colorize’

6. You can now adjust or add 1, 2 or 3 colors to this pattern

a. 1 Color is from the top ‘ink well’

b. 2 colors are from the top and the bottom ‘ink-well’

c. 3 colors is from all 3 ‘ink-wells’

7. Click on one of these ‘ink-wells’ and you can select the hue and saturation of

each color.

8. Click OK twice and then adjust the length of time you want this colored pattern

in your Scene Bin. Click ok once more and voila’ you have created your own

colored pattern!