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Pointing Arrows, check‑marks and bullets added to a video
How to create and place arrows, check‑marks and bullets (or
any other available font graphic in
Photoshop) in Avid=s
Media Composer
Open Photoshop in any computer.
Go to File > New > next to Preset, find ATV Title.@ (*)
A window with a transparent background opens.
Look for the Aribbon@ where the Fonts are listed, click the
down arrow and select a font with the
graphic you want to use. I usually need either check marks or arrows.
Let=s
say at this time you are looking for an arrow.
When you click on the down arrow next to the font name, all
the fonts on your machine will be
displayed. Move down
the list until you see one font where graphics are displayed, such as:
ABookshelf
Symbol 7" or ADingbats,@ etc. (**)
To the right of where you found the fonts, look for a window
with numbers followed by Apt@.This
will select the size of the font. In the window, delete the numbers and enter
100.
Look to the right of that window and find the rectangle with
a color. Click on it and select a
color, such as yellow.
On the left hand side of Photoshop, find the ribbon with the
different icons and click on the AT@
for Text.
Move the mouse over the window with the transparent
background and click at the center of it.
A vertical line will start flashing indicating the size and
position of whatever character you type.
As you type a letter, a symbol will appear. You will have to type a letter starting with Aa@
and
then hit the backspace to delete it if that is not the
character you want.
I have found that with this font, when I type the letter An@
an arrow will be displayed.
Press AShift@ and the ALeft
Arrow@ This
will select the image of the arrow.
On the ribbon at the top of Photoshop, on the line where you find File, Edit, etc., click on
ALayer@ and then click on ALayer Style@
Click on Drop Shadow.
A window will open where you can change the settings for the
drop shadow (make sure it is
checked on the list of Blending Options, to the left of that
window.)
Grab the line inside the circle next to Angle and decide
where you want the shadow to appear.
Move the distance slider to show how far the shadow is to be
from the actual image, change (or
not) all other parameters to meet your needs.)
Then click on AStroke@ to add a border to the arrow.
Click OK
Understand that you can add more Aeffects@ to the graphic and that you can change
each
parameters to widen, narrow, position, etc., with most of those parameter.
Save this graphic as a A.psd@ file so it will have its transparency
when you open it in Avid.
If Photoshop is not on the computer where Avid is, save the
graphic to a thumb‑drive and then
move the file from
the thumb‑drive to your E:\Warehouse>Graphics>Arrows directory.
As I create more of these kind of graphics, I save them in
my E:\ Warehouse folder, under
AGraphics@ and in this case in the AARROWS@
subdirectory, so they are available the
next time I
might need them. You
could make changes and add further malipulations by simply opening the graphic
in Photoshop.
For organizational purposes, I create several directories on
my D:\ drive for any given project
(i.e., Police Athletic League ‑ PAL,) and give it the name of the project plus what
it contains:
PAL‑Music; PAL‑Graphics; PAL‑Titles, etc.
I will copy the arrow graphic from the
Warehouse>Grahics>Arrows to the PAL‑Graphics.
If you make the mistake of moving the file, once you delete
the project, your arrows will go to
hell in a handbasket and you will never find them again, so
COPY, don=t MOVE.
Once Avid is up and running I will Import from those project=s directories into the project I am
working on to its corresponding bin.
Again, for organizational purposes, I open several bins in
each project, one for Videos, one for
Music, another one for title, one for Graphics, etc., and
import the proper items to their
corresponding bin.
After I have completed all my editing in Avid, I will add a
new video track.
Will open the arrow I want to use and once I mark the In and
Out points, will send it to that
uppermost video track. Make sure only that uppermost video track is active in the patch panel.
Place the playback head at the very beginning of the clip
with the arrow.
In the Effects Palette, click on AKey@
Drag and drop the AMatte
Key@ onto the arrow clip.
Open the Effect Editor.
Use the Scaling Parameters: Wid and Hgt to resize the arrow.
Use the Position Parameters: H Pos and V Pos to position the
arrow.
Close the editor. The
arrow will remain at that position and the square on the screen of the Effect
Editor, disappears.
You can add the usual fade in and fade out to that clip.
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(*)
If you have not
created a TV Title preset, create one by entering the following parameters:
Width: 720 pixels
Height: 500 pixels
Resolution: 200 pixels
Color Mode: RGB Color 8 bit
Background Contents: Transparent
Color Profile: select using the down arrow: xRGB IEC61966‑2.1
Pixels Aspect Ration: (select using the down arrow: Square
Pixels.
Then hit Save Preset and give it a name, such as TV Title
(**)
You can find free
fonts with graphics all over, download and install the ones that fit your
needs.