Is it possible to automate title generation

MattAdamson wrote on 7/30/2012, 12:47 PM

Hi

I was wondering whether it was possible to automate the titler engine and generate titles for a number of clips.

I thought a script which went through a collection of photos in a folder and extract the photo description ( using a custom tag ) and added this string as a title in a predefined location e.g. bottom left, would be really useful. I often have many photos I like to present at the end of family videos and use tags to define meaningful descriptions

I'm a Java / C# developer so comfortable with the task as long as the automation API supports most of this

Thoughts appreciated

Matt

Comments

Gary James wrote on 7/31/2012, 2:10 PM

It's been a couple years since I automated text generation but from what I remember, you can add a text generator event. And you can add text. But all of the text attributes like size, position, color, shadow, etc. have to be saved as a preset. But then you can automate the selection of the preset to apply it to your text event.

jetdv wrote on 7/31/2012, 2:28 PM

With the new OpenFX versions, you can change the various attributes including text.

With the older DirectX versions, you can pick a preset.

Gary James wrote on 7/31/2012, 4:00 PM

Thanks Ed. I didn't realize the newer OpenFX media generators finally gave access to the individual parameters.