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Motion – Matching Fonts Between Motion and Final Cut Pro

Font Tracking

If you’ve tried to match a font in Final Cut to a font you are using in Motion, you’ve probably been surprised that they don’t match.

I did some research and discovered that while Motion and Final Cut calculate the font SIZE the same, but they don’t calculate font TRACKING the same.

To match fonts between the applications, create a text clip in Final Cut with the font you want to use and set the tracking to 1.8 in the Controls tab of Final Cut Pro. They won’t match perfectly, but they will match pretty darn close. So close, that if I took a screen shot at 50% scale, you would not see a difference.

Final Cut Pro – QuickTime Movie Playback on Slower Systems

TIp Jar

While H.264 is the star of the the codec world at the moment, it is not always the best choice when you want to create a QuickTime movie.

If you want to create a movie that will play on older, slower machines, or you want to create a movie that will play without requiring a lot of computer processing power, say for a ProTools session, consider using the Photo-JPEG codec.

It won’t create really small files, but it does play back without a lot of stress, even on older systems.

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