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Mac Video Titler 2 creates anti-aliased titles over a solid background color, or over a background PICT image or QuickTime movie.

Options include creating an alpha channel with full or shadow-only variable transparency.

MVT2's features include:

• Creates rolls, crawls or flashing pages as a QT movie, or as single-page PICT files.
  
• Simple, basic editor. Just open a new window, select font, size, foreground and background colors and start typing. Format on screen.
  
• Works with any PostScript™ font and Adobe Type Manager™, or with TrueType fonts.
  
• Text search and replace.
  
• Foreground color, size, font and style settable on a per-character basis.
  
• Text can be rendered with a gradient fill.
  
• Drop shadow or border options with adjustable depth/size and color.
  
• Shadows can be solid or projected.
  
• For rolls and crawls, speed is adjustable on a pixel-per-frame basis.
  
• Option to roll/crawl first page on or start with first page on-screen.
  
• Antialiasing option.
  
• Field rendering option.
  
• 720 x 486 D1 output rendering option in NTSC.
  
• Alpha channel support with adjustable transparency for shadow only or character and shadow.
  
• "Backplates" - alpha channel boxes around text with adjustable-transparency background color.
  
• Creates stand-alone movies or composites over a background movie or PICT.
  
• Text-only, but with a graphic elements font built in for making lines & borders.
  
• Import text files and apply graphic treatment.
  

Creating Titles with Mac Video Titler vs. with Photoshop

Creating a simple title in Photoshop – for instance an alpha channel lower-third name super with transparent drop shadow – entails typing the text, copying it to the clipboard, creating one or more alpha channel layers, setting transparency levels, pasting and positioning layers, merging the alpha layers, and... well, it’s a fair number of steps to get there from here. If you’d like the letters to sport a gradient, the top layer of each line must be selected separately and the gradient tool applied manually.

Creating a simple title to the same specs in Mac Video Titler is simplicity itself by contrast: Set your preferences for drop shadow depth and transparency, and then simply position the cursor, type your text, and select the Render menu item. Want gradients? Set your starting and ending colors, and MVT will automatically create text with a gradient – either a single line or on every line of a complete credit roll.

Credit Rolls to Go

Creating a credit roll – even with such options as gradients and alpha channel semi-transparent drop shadows – couldn’t be easier. Simply type (or import) your text, set your preferences, and select the Render item from the File menu. MVT2 will create a title file ready to import into FCP, Avid or Media 100 systems.

Ready for Prime Time

MVT2 has been used on numerous productions, including the end credits roll for the documentary “People Say I’m Crazy,” which aired on Cinemax in 2004.

System Requirements

Mac Video Titler 2 requires a Macintosh with at least 12 MB available application RAM, System 7 - 9 or OS X Classic (through version 10.4.11 [Tiger]), plus QuickTime 4 or later.

OSX/Classic Note: Please note that with a registered copy of Mac Video Titler 2, you must first start up Classic mode before launching Mac Video Titler 2. If you launch Mac Video Titler 2 first, and let it invoke Classic mode, it will not be able to find its preferences file, and will reset to demo mode at each new run.

Tutorial

For a tutorial that shows how quickly high-design lower-third graphics can be created, click here!

Downloading The Mac Video Titler 2 Demo/Update

The current version of Mac Video Titler 2 is 2.0.5, which is available from the following links:

Click here to download the Mac Video Titler 2 demo/update in StuffIt format (328K).

Click here to download the Mac Video Titler 2 demo/update in BinHex-encoded StuffIt format (436K).

The demo version operates the same as the release version but prints the words "MVT2 Demo" and a grid of thin red lines over each page that it creates, and doesn't save its preferences. The demo download package also includes a series of sample files.

If you're a registered owner, the download will update you to version 2.0.5.

The MVT2 manual - a self-contained, stand-alone application - is also available for download.

Click here to download the Mac Video Titler 2 manual in StuffIt format (258K).

Click here to download the Mac Video Titler 2 manual in BinHex-encoded StuffIt format (344K).

Mac Video Titler 2 can be registered by phone or e-mail. Complete information is included in the help system and by selecting the Register item from the Edit menu.

MVT2 is priced at $29.95. Your purchase includes free updates for a minimum of one year.

To order via our secure PayPal page using any major credit card or an existing PayPal account (if you have one), just click below. When you've completed your checkout, send us the Registration code for your copy, and we’ll return a serial number to unlock it.

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