...but I did not shoot the deputy.

I finally managed to get the titles running. Took a good deal of rendering and also re-rendering when I found out I had publishing problems at high resolution. Damn. Anyway, in this video I give you the references to the tutorials from which I learned to handle Blender and also how to use a modern keyboard to get a copyright free audio track without needing to be a virtuoso.


Of course, there are a few extra issues that cropped up here; some of them in Cinecutie also.

One of the main issues was that I can only produce Raw DV output from Cinecutie; none of the others work properly. I tried on another machine but no luck either. That meant I needed to re-render my output from Blender to match the only output from Cinecutie that I could make. Mucho wasted time. Do a test run first to ensure your process doesn't trip up somewhere.

The other major issue was that my video camera doesn't match the Cinecutie resolution. The fix was relatively straightforward...

By right clicking on the blue bar at the top of the imported video and going to properties, I could then tell Cinecutie the size of the video that was imported. Subsequent to that, a "scale" video effect can be applied to bring the video within reasonable constraints.

A trick that I was told by a film crew, was that they film at a ratio which is between TV (4:3) and widescreen (16:9) so that it doesn't appear to stretched on widescreen or squashed on TV. This is something to remember when scaling your imported video to Cinecutie.