Graffiti Tutorials

Create Title Effects Fast

In this tutorial, we'll take a closer look at how to create innovative title effects in minutes - using Graffiti 5.3 in Sony Vegas Pro 8. Although the tutorial is written for Vegas, the same Graffiti user interface and step-by-step instructions would apply to any supported host application, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Pinnacle Studio...

Creating a Credit Roll

What is the oldest text animation effect in film history? You guessed right. It is the opening or closing credit roll. Traditionally a long page of text is rolled from the bottom of the screen revealing line after line. In the early days of cinematography a paper print was physically rolled before the film camera to produce this effect. Hence the name: Credit Roll.

Using Graffiti in Avid

This tutorial focuses on using BORIS Graffiti to generate animated titles within the Avid Editing environment and assumes that the Graffiti application has already been installed into your system.

Create Networks-Style Broadcast Graphics

How do they make these network news lower thirds look so good? With the help of a premium broadcast graphics package such as BORIS Graffiti it is actually very easy. In this tutorial we will show you how it´s done.

Custom Text Backdrops with BORIS Graffiti

Tired of using the same text templates over and over again? They came bundled with your NLE and they looked great the first time you saw them but now you need something custom-made. A copy of BORIS Graffiti can solve that problem.

Creating an Animated 3D Chart

Even expert graphic artists have had few options to quickly create high-quality animated charts. Rather than trying to squeeze broadcast-quality results out of multimedia business applications, you can now tap into BORIS Graffiti's 3D Chart feature.

Creating 3D Text with a Bump Map

In addition to reflection maps and textures, both RED and Graffiti allow you to apply bump maps to to 3D text and shapes.

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3D Shapes in BORIS Graffiti

BORIS Graffiti offers the powerful 3D titling insdie your NLE, with features including 3D text animated along paths with reflection maps and 3D cameras and lights. It's also an exceptionally powerful tool for animating 2D titles using 3D shapes

Wiggling Titles

Both RED 3GL and Graffiti 3 let you animate the splines that make up each character in your text. Let’s start by creating some text...

The Easiest Star Wars Roll in the Galaxy

You're not going to believe how easy this is... Using BORIS Graffiti or BORIS RED:

Step 1: Create your text.
Step 2: Place it in a Title Container with the Animation Style set to Roll.
Step 3: Place the Title Container in a 3D container, and tumble it back.
That's it. Honestly. Click on the tutorial for details

Declaration of Resolution Independence

A resolution independent titler means that you can change resolutions while you work for faster previews, but it also means you can include oversized documents as part of your title animations. You don't need to add titles if you don't want - simply use Graffiti to create pan-and-zoom, documentary style animations.

Speedy 3D Text

No, I'm not insane. At least not about this. Some very simple things will dramatically speed the setup of 3D text effects.

Around the World

Take advantage of the shapes in BORIS Graffiti to quickly create advanced effects. This particular effect uses Graffiti's mapping capabilities (just the ticket for an effect with a globe in it), powerful lights and masking tools.