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April 19, 2005

CNN ticker for iMovie HD?

I'm in the process of making a movie with iMovie HD and was wondering if there is anything around that will allow me to add a CNN type news-ticker that scrolls across the top or bottom of the screen with my own text in it.

Posted by Matthew at April 19, 2005 12:57 AM

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When you export the movie, one thing you can do is to publish it as a SMIL document, embedding tickers within it, but about the only coherent way I could do this when I tried was RealText, which is of course RealPlayer proprietary :-( ..., but, maybe SMIL is better adopted now and you can insert a:

within the layout, and assign a region to it?

If you want to try the SMIL afterwards with a standards-compliant player, look for Ambulant at: http://www.cwi.nl/projects/Ambulant/distPlayer.html

CHeers,

David

Posted by: David Casal at April 19, 2005 12:50 PM