BluffTitler exports its animations as AVI files. The AVI format is the most widely supported animation format and every video and animation application can import AVI files.
Choose File > Export as Movie... to export a BluffTitler show as an AVI file.
You can use Window Media Player (WMP) to check if your animation has been exported successfully.
The following four settings are important when creating an AVI file:
This page gives you tips for the following applications:
If you've experienced any problems with importing BluffTitler generated AVIs or are using a program that's not listed here please share your knowledge with other users. Send your reports to:
info@outerspace-software.comChoose File > Import to import a video file into Adobe Premiere.
There are no issues with AVS Video Editor, it gives excellent results. Export the BT animations as full frame AVIs (uncompressed) and then use AVS Video Editor to burn them to a DVD.
Canopus seems to accept only animations that have the exact DVD resolution and framerate.
For the PAL version use a resolution of 720 x 576 and a framerate of 25
For the NTSC version use a resolution of 720 x 480 and a framerate of 29.97
Drag and drop the AVI files from the file browser onto the timeline.
MAGIX Video deLuxe version 2007 and later support transparency. Older versions do not support AVIs with transparency info. Apart from that all resolutions and framerates are accepted: MAGIX scales them to the required resolution.
MAGIX Video deLuxe version 2007 and later support transparency. To import a transparent video perform the following steps:
Choose File > Import... or drop the AVI file onto WMM.
No limitations.
Movie Maker can import transparent AVIs, but seems to ignore the transparency information.
In Windows XP you won't find WMM in the start menu. You can find the application in the C:\Program Files\Movie Maker folder.
Simply drag the AVI file from the folders list to the timeline.
Version 3.5 does not seem to support transparent AVIs.
Select the Edit tab and use the dropdown listbox and the two buttons to the right of the listbox to select the BluffTitler created AVI file. Selected AVI files can be dragged onto the timeline.
Transparent AVIs can be dropped on the overlay track of the timeline. This way they are rendered transparently on top of the video track.
Studio 10 can handle transparancy, but older versions seem to have problems handling transparent AVIs. If Studio complains about not being able to read your AVI file you will have to export your animations without transparency.
If your Studio 10 created DVDs stutter you have to switch from Best Quality to Automatic Quality.
Pinnacle uses a lot of system resources, including precious video memory that BluffTitler requires for high quality antialiasing. For maximum quality it is best not to keep Pinnacle and BluffTitler open at the same time.
Use Uncompressed AVI or Numbered Frames for maximum quality.
Use the Uncompressed AVI with Transparency option. If file output size is an issue and you still wish to overlay an animation, you can use Liquid's Chroma Key option. Choose File > Set Background Colour... in BluffTitler to set the background colour. Once imported into Liquid you can use the Keying Editor located under Classic Clip FX/Editors with little or no adjustments.
When the BluffTitler exports are imported into Liquid Edition 5.5 they will need to be rendered as DV Quality before they can be used within the NLE. This usually starts automatically because of the "Background Render" feature of Liquid Edition 5.5.
Select the desired Rack and right click in the content window and choose Import, Media Clip.
If required you can further antialias a BluffTitler animation by using the Gaussian Blur option from the Classic Filter Editor and set the Horizontal Radius & Vertical Radius both to 0.4.
Bitmaps (.BMP files) exported from Liquid Edition are dispayed as a white screen in BluffTitler. Loading the bitmap into Paint and saving the image again corrects the problem.
Pinnacle uses a lot of system resources, including precious video memory that BluffTitler requires for high quality antialiasing. For maximum quality it is best not to keep Pinnacle and BluffTitler open at the same time.
EditStudio has no problems importing BluffTitler generated movies.
ES does not yet suppport AVI with transparency, so use the chroma key - and that is easy to use in ES.
There are no issues importing BluffTitler generated AVI files into Serif MoviePlus 4 and Serif MoviePlus 5.
Vegas does not automatically recognize the alpha (transparency) channel in the AVI files. You can instruct Vegas to use the alpha channel by right clicking on the video in the timeline, choosing Properties and setting the Alpha Channel dropdown in the Media tab to Straight (unmatted).
Make sure to place the transparent video in the Video Overlay track.
Vegas 5 refuses to import files from a path containing the word "TITLE" - all uppercase. If ANY or ALL of the letters are lowercase, there is no problem reading or finding the file. Change the folder name, or move the file in question and you should not have any problems opening it.
The Sony Vegas Movie Studio (little brother to Vegas) works the exact same way as the main Vegas application. The lite version can also handle transparent AVIs. You need to click on the video event properties, followed by the media properties to select the premultiplied dirty option.
Drag and drop the AVI files from the file browser(library) onto the timeline.
VideoStudio can handle all AVI formats.
VideoStudio can handle AVI files with transparency. In the timeline mode (not the default storyboard mode) you can see two video tracks. Drag the background video to the first track and the transparent AVI to the second. For some reason you have to switch between tracks a couple of times before the two video tracks are mixed correctly.
VideoStudio does not scale AVI files to fullscreen, so make sure the resolution of the title animation matches the resolution of the background video.