Anyone tried the type tool yet - worth the 20 year wait? I was disappointed to see it doesn’t support dynamic fonts.
How’s the aliasing? Can we stop using Photoshop for legals?
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Our beta sites did!
There was a LOT of work done, but we couldn’t obviously do everything. Give it a go and let us know what improvements you would like to see made to it.
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The quality should be much better.
As for Anti-Aliasing, we have also made changes to the Hardware Anti-Aliasing workflow by moving the value to the Project Preferences and by adding a mean to enable/disable its usage on a node basis.
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Thought I’d never see the day!
Very, very late to the party but welcome all the same, nice work. Next thing will need to be AI transcribing for subtitling, 
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Check out www.Stratustor.com for Ai transcribing providing .srt file and a wonderful masters archive with auto scene description and search by picture or audio.
I just had a super Quick Look. looks quite good. I will do some further testing tomorrow
The new type tool is nice!!.. and .. one little thing that also made me very happy is that when you copy your text tool from a 16x9 aspect to 9x16.. it handles the aspect well now.. no weird stretching etc.. like we used to have.. 
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Nah that’s old skool, Premiere automatically transcribes everything you ingest, that’s what I’m talkin’ about. (not that Flame needs that, but being able to analyse a clip through a node that punches out an SRT file or plugs straight into the new type tool would be huge)
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Never give up hope on your Feature Requests
The team has done a lot of work to make a useful tool that’s not just a Text node replacement. Aside from just simple text creation, here are some features I’ve explored:
– Kerning, Leading, Tracking, etc are now similar to Adobe style. You have shortcuts and it’s quick work to get through kerning with those pesky art directors that have to kern every single character. If you’ve never had to do this before… bless your heart.
– Project Fonts: Set a font for a project and then use it in the Type tool. If the client decides everything need to change, just change that project font and all uses of it will be updated. (This isn’t required and you can mix and match use of the project font with regular fonts.)
– Styles and Presets: You can save a ‘Style’ to the TL FX Bin and then drag and drop it on another Type layer in any other Type node. A Style is like a snapshot of the Font and all the attributes of the text but doesn’t include animation. A “Preset” is saved like a setup and then can be recalled to another Type node. This one includes animation.
– Scoping options on the timeline: Similar to burn-in-metadata, you can change something in a Type node on the timeline and effect other segments as well. So for instance you have multiple segments that are legal lines in the spot. The client decides they all need to be bold instead of regular. Set up the Scoping to affect all segments or maybe all segments in the current track, and when you change the first segment all the rest are updated as well.
– AA and strokes/outlines - these are both huge updates. AA is hardware based and then you can add software AA if you need even more. no more ‘softness’ and AA frustrations of the text not looking like the client’s PSD file. And the outline of text is silky smooth. There are options for different outline approaches… Rounded, Beveled, Square, Miter.
Hollar if you have any questions. I think they are working on Flame Learning Channel videos but I presented this at NAB and I’ve done a lot of real world work with it already.
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Just on that, I asked the devs whether the size change should stay 100% and not what it does now. What do you think?
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I like it the way it is now actually..
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OK. The problem I found was that when converting a timeline fro 16x9 to 9x16 the text would shrink way too much. I’d rather see a centre crop like effect instead of the text reducing in size.
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I would prefer this too. When going from 16x9 to 9x16 the text should be the same ‘scan line’ height or percentage of the vertical resolution.
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There’s your answer @fredwarren