Hi Avid fans,

    I am working on a feature length documentary edit and am a longtime avid user, over 20 years now. But all thru my ownership of avids there have always been unerving, maddening and consistent bugs with the title tool.

    Often I find as I am working in the tool with details such as kerning specifically, the tool looks one way while I am working and outputs something completely different, or worse yet only slightly different so you don't catch it til much later.

     For more complex titles I go into after effects, and not marqee--- but you would think I could just get my Avid to be able to do a simple title in black and white or a very simple lower third without being shifty on me. Right now I am about pulling out my hair with this! take a look at how the title looks in the timeline-- and then how it looks in the tool--- SAME EXACT TITLE!

    Now I know the first thing folks often mention is an upgrade of system change- I am on a fast computer, (imac  3.5 Ghz Intel core 17   24 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3-- OS 10.9) and am staying on 7.0.3 until I finish this film at which point I will upgrade- I am not upgrading long into a year long edit and facing all thise potential bugs and hassles and incompatabilities with other plug ins or other software systems. I am only a few months from finishiong this giant project and would like not to rock the boat too much.  Plus, having owned MANY Avids over two decades, this weird title glitch has appeared in various other versions, so I am not confident in updates making this fix.

   If anyone has any ideas that do not involve system overhauls I am all ears. Otherwise it appears I will go into the labor intensive work of using after effects for simple black and white cards and lower thirds--- not exactly why I pay for the avid tho...

Thanks!

Mary

I've experienced this same thing over the years. The only solution is to use Marquee which correctly displays the kerning and placement of the ovjects in your title.

(Or photoshop or any other titling software)

Marquee isn't so bad once you get the hang of it, you can do simple titles quite easily in it. (And more complex ones, if you want to spend the time learning it)

cheers

Campbell