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NLE Integration and realtime titling

The best place to add titles to nonlinear video is inside nonlinear editing applications, of course. Boris GRAFFITI 2.0 works directly inside far more NLEs than any other titling solution, some of which don't even work inside NLEs at all. GRAFFITI works on both Windows and Macintosh, and plugs into NLEs from Adobe, Apple, Avid, Canopus, DPS, Discreet, FAST, In:sync, Incite, Matrox, Media 100, Panasonic, Sony, and Ulead.

For details on supported hosts, click here (file in pdf format).

More than simply plugging in, Boris GRAFFITI integrates directly into the heart of content creation workflow in a variety of ways.

In Apple Final Cut Pro 3, GRAFFITI is available both as a filter and as a generator. Titles created with the GRAFFITI Static Generator can be animated in real time using FCP 3's Motion controls on systems which support real time capabilities. As a result, even 3D titles can be played back in real time.

Avid systems, including Xpress DV 3 and any Meridien-based configuration (Xpress, Composer, Symphony) support realtime playback of moving alpha channels. Title animations over animation can be created and exported from Boris GRAFFITI extremely quickly. Once brought onto the timeline, Avid composites the moving titles with video in real time.

Boris GRAFFITI serves as the titling application for Media 100 i systems. Titles created in GRAFFITI take advantage of Media 100's real time architecture for compositing with alpha and for animating opacity. Additional tracks of video (which may be mapped to title backdrops, or to the surface of 2D and 3D text) may be brought into GRAFFITI directly from Media 100 bins.

This is just a small sample of the ways that GRAFFITI integrates with NLEs, but there are others. Any system that can play back static or moving images with alpha channels can take advantage of GRAFFITI's title export functions.
Flash Export

Graffiti's export to Flash (.swf files) is remarkably fast and robust. Graffiti controls the size and resolution of exported movies, and can include stroked text in Flash files -- features not found in the much more expensive Adobe After Effects.

As a result, it couldn't be easier to create title animations for video, which can also be used on the web with a single click. Vector animations like the ones created by Graffiti's Flash export are very small, yet very high resolution: exactly what you'd expect from a vector title animation tool like Boris Graffiti.

Just as Graffiti is the only titling software to offer native vector text, it is the only one that offers Flash export.

Demo: "Throw Down", "Avalanche", "Squeeze"
Style Palette

Among the many new features in Graffiti 2.0 are powerful new text styles, with multiple strokes (which can be plain, beveled or glowing) and shadows (drop, solid and cast). These are among the handful of parameters that can be saved to the expanded Graffiti Style Palette, and applied to any new text.

As always, Graffiti styles are applied to any selected text, including a single letter, allowing easy application of multiple styles in a single text element.

Other parameters which can be saved to the Style Palette include colors, gradients, Natural Media settings, combinations of stroke and fill for spline backdrops, materials for extruded objects, and extrusion parameters such as bevel and depth.
Library Browser

The Library Browser offers a fast, flexible way to work with the KeyFrame Library which is automatically installed on your system when you install Boris Graffiti. It offers hundred of animated and static title presets, which you can add, remove, or change at any time.

The Library Browser offers the option of animating thumbnail previews, and selected settings are previewed with the media from your current timeline. Once selected, they keep the text you've been working with, simply applying the new parameters.

Additionally, settings may be composed of individual title elements, such as separate layers of text, favorite backgrounds, or favorite filter settings. These individual tracks may then be inserted into other title compositions, providing endless flexibility to reuse previous work in new ways.
Keyframer

The KeyFramer is provided free of charge with Boris Graffiti. It is a stand-alone utility designed to create Boris Graffiti native video effects off-line using any computer. The KeyFramer has all of the same capabilities of the Graffiti plug-in, except that the KeyFramer cannot render title animations. It can play back real time previews, it can export still images to be used on NLE timelines, but final effect rendering requires a host application with the Graffiti plug-in installed.

When the KeyFramer is launched, you see the same Boris Graffiti user interface as in the plug-in when entered from your host application. The default video image ais a proxy image that you can use to create effects when your media is unavailable. You can also import still images or movie files, or create color, gradient, natural or text media in the KeyFramer.

KeyFramer can be duplicated and distributed free of charge. The settings it creates are cross-platform compatible, allowing titles and effects created on a Macintosh to be opened and rendered on a PC, and vice versa.
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