I did download the demo as well but it hasn't been top priority - I hope we can get round to taking a look at before long.
We do have a good relationship with some of the plugin manufacturers, but I don't think we've had much to do with Red Giant yet.

Thanks fishmonger,

Good to hear and I fully understand this not being a top priority.

Hi fishmonger and SMPse,

I grabbed the opportunity and bought RedGiant TextAnarchy yesterday with 40% discount...to learn it does not even show up in LW. This tool does advanced titling and its a shame that this works with AE but not LW...

RedGiant offer tons of plugins for the major NLEs but they seem to ignore LW until now. Hope this will change soon even if this is not a priority yet. I think RedGiant may be able to adjust their programs quite easily to support LW if LW Development hands over their interface description to them - mostly a matter of communication - and testing of course.

In the meantime, will try to pratice LW´s basics - and LW offers a decent effects section too which is so advanced that I really need some special trainig before getting the best out of it (e.g. colour correction tools ) Maybe will have to read some books about CC to get any closer...

Sebalex

sebalex wrote:


Naive question from someone who's not a pro:

I understand that effects should interact with the editing system somehow, be it loosely or strictly.

But, how about the titler? I (naively) assume that a title sequence is three things: graphics (the actual titles and animations), video sequences, and a composition of the two into an output title sequence. So you need a tool to generate title clips, a tool to edit video clips, and a tool to composite(compose?) video clips and title clips.

So, isn't it sufficient to have just a title generator and a compositor? Maybe the most sophisticated function should be the compositor. But the compositing function is somewhat independent of the title generation/editing function.

Am I missing something?

sterovetta wrote:
Not at all. Not for me, at least. But it's faster to work with complex animated credits, overlayed on a sequence with multiple cuts (possibly with effects) on a renderless timeline directly.

After some investigation and a couple of tweaks, I've had some success in getting the 'misfire' suite of plugins to work, but the main 'looks' plugin is proving troublesome.. I'll keep trying..

PS. Anyone with any experience of PF_ArbitraryDef after-effects params, please make yourself known