Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    You are asking for two different things.  One is a video titler. It
    produces IFF drawings of titles.  TVTitles is a cheap one that I bought
    on consignment for ~$50.  The other is a video effects program. 
    It displays the titles or other IFF files, changing between them with
    wipes, fades (kind of bit-wise sparkly dissolves, and clunky fades to
    black in 16 obvious steps), and so no.  I don't know what cheap program
    would do scrolls.  Director doesn't.  I got Director pretty cheap.  In
    fact, I 've used it for cable access program titles, and I'm showing a
    video using it at Mobius, Boston next Friday.
    Tom

If you have Deluxe Paint III you can do a lot of neat stuff with the animation
feature that approaches what you'd like.  It'll do a nice zoom, it'll scroll
with some effort, it'll rotate, but what is rotating is a flat pic, not a
3D title (i.e. a flat line when edge on).  Of course, if you want to draw in 
the 3D part, you can... (but that's what software is FOR is all that kind of
tedious stuff).  It does a dissolving sort of fade.

I've had lots of fun making rockets that fly and landscapes that scroll and
dripping water and ...

If you are looking to buy a package specifically for titling, this is not the
answer, but if you happen to have it around, you can do lots of neat stuff.

(I got my Amiga as a toy to hack on, but I have done much less hacking than
I planned 'cause DPaint III is so much fun to play with)

There is a package that a friend of mine uses for producing 
professional video titles...I think it is called Broadcast 
Titler.  It is the only one on the market that will do continuous 
scrolls of text and titles.  It creates very clean hi-res 
graphics and is pretty easy to use.

Video Effects 3D creates some interesting animation of still IFF 
frames, but it can take all day just to generate those graphics.  
Not a very flexible package.

Deluxe Video and do a lot, but you are limited to lo-res, (until 
the new version comes out.)  It allows you to wipe or fade from 
one IFF picture to the next.  It can overlay IFF brushes, resize 
them and move them...several at a time.  It also can display text 
lines independent of the objects.  It can do scrolls, but it is a 
little involved to set up, and they aren't very smooth.

Deluxe Productions can do what you want too, but you will need 
more than 1 meg to really get it to work well.  DP works only in 
hi-res.  It has several built in fades and wipes.  It uses IFF 
pictures for backgrounds and IFF brushes as objects that can be 
moved over the background.  You can only move one ojbect at a 
time tho.  

Deluxe Paint III has some animation capabilities built in...I 
would rather use DPIII as a paint package and then use the 
graphics in a video program.  Doing it that way gives you much 
more control.

Well, bottom line, Deluxe Video (in it's newest version, due out 
this winter) sounds like a winner.

    TITLECRAFT (I think it came with the C=1300 genlock) will scroll text
    in any Amiga fonts.  Don't remember wher I got it from or if it's free
    so if anyone wants it Il'l put it on NORSE unless I get stopped by the
    copyright superhero.
    
    Jean
    

TitleCraft will only work with the fonts that it came with.  It 
will crash if you try to use any others.  It will only work in 
underscan mode, so the characters will not scroll completely off 
screen.

It is basically a low grade text scrolling utilitly.  It is a 
Commodore product, so I don't believe that it is in the public 
domain.

Randy

    
    I have an official Aegis demo disk of their 'Video Titler' software. 
    If you like, I'll send you a copy.
    
    Ed.

    Could you upload it?  I'd be interested in looking at what Video Titler
    can do.
    
    -tl

    
    TITLERDEMO.LZH has been uploaded to NORSE""::AMIGA:[UPLOAD].
    
    By the way, here's some interesting comparisons between the Zoo and
    LHarc compression formats...
    
    Original Size of Files		After ZOO		After LHARC
    
    814589				515998			299439
    
    I'd say that's a pretty impressive improvement over Zoo.
    
    Anyway, just unpack the files onto a fresh bootable disk and make an
    s:startup-sequence file of one line:
    
    	showseg demo.script
    
    and the disk will now boot and run the demo.  You do not need any other
    system files.
    
    Ed.

    RE: .3
    
    Sorry to correct you, but ProVideo Plus (and Pro Video CGI for that
    matter) both can do continuous scroll of credits (up, down, across
    top, or across bottom). I use both of these products and I believe
    they are by far the best and most professional desktop viseo products
    available. I do professional work for my local cable-TV station
    and the results are always impressive. Provideo-plus and the new
    Provideo Gold (which I can't use because I only have a meg of memory)
    also allow the import of IFF files for backdrops.
    
    I have also tried DPIII cell animation, as mentioned earlier, and
    I agree. It is easy to use and produces quality results.