DV Titler - Plugin

The DvTitler-Plugin is a simplified version of Dv Titler which works with kino's plugin engine. The image shows the user interface, where you can control the main attributes of the title.

Title editor

Both foreground and background colors support alpha channel (transparency or opacity). The pad size is the space around the title (like the cell padding in HTML tables). If the background have some opacity (alpha > 0) and pad size is bigger that 1, the background will be filled with the background color.

The initial position is where the title will appear initially. If the final position have a different value than No Change, the title will move between the initial to the final position, the number of frames you selected in kino's frame FX dialog.

Ah, I was forgeting... It is fast!

See an example image:

Image

Internals

Curently this plugin is in an experimental, pre-alpha state. Almost all the functionality is working but there are some issues. It is not using X rendering, but renders directly in the image frame using FreeType font rendering engine. It searches for the font file in your X font directories. It works better (only?) with true type fonts. I doesn't work with fonts non supported by freetype2.

We are considering using gdx to fix these problems, at the expense of speed and memory usage.