Text box margins

Hi all,

Is there a way to publish text box margins for a FCPX plugin?

- Andreas

drawing a rectangle, publish its opacity? Or, rig it with an 'edit mode' on/off switch?

..... ok, cheeeeap work around :woohoo:

Karsten,

Thanks for the reply.

But that's not what I want to achieve.
Your solution also would hide the text as well - not helpful

To clarify, I want a letterbox to be applied to clip. No problem at all. To fit the title box to safe areas it has to done manually in the canvas.





- Andreas

You mean resize the text box WITHOUT effecting the text size, AND publish a control for it?

Yes Ben,

that's what I want.

- Andreas

Once in FCPX, titles are not boxes, but can be repositioned freely.
So, in trying to move towards a practical solution, what would be the purpose, once in FCPX, to resize a text box? What exactly is the issue you're having, once in FCPX?

Thanks Ben,

I know that I (anyone) can resize the text box in FCPX. Look at the screen shots.

It becomes a laborious when it comes to many text boxes.

- Andreas

OK, I'm still not sure what the goal is. You can do it, but you want to do it a different way. I'm just trying to understand for what purpose, when resizing a text "box" in FCPX isn't really, IMHO, relevant. It only is in Motion. So I'm a tad lost.

Ben,

Changing the text box is not a real issue if only a few ones have to be changed - but imagine a few hundreds, maybe far above a thousand.
And text box size is not an option in Inspector - means you can't save anything to paste to all.

So what's the purpose? It's about title safe subtitles for letterboxed timelines. Okay you can create a new template for each letterbox size. I think that's not a comfortable solution.

- Andreas

Ah, letterbox, I see.