Rendering Text

[Sarah Reichelt]

On 2/14/06, Wally Rodriguez <wlists at fireworksmm.com> wrote:
> I have an solution that I'm trying to put together that will serve as
> a slate generator for our video production company.
>
> Basically a slate is a series of frames that count down (10 to 2)
> that is placed just before a commercial. This slate has all the
> information needed to identify a spot.
>
> What I need to do is to use this sequence of images as a background
> and render text on top based on information entered in various fields.
>
> The roadblock I'm running into is the actual rendering of the text on
> an image and then saving it.

Do you have to save the image + text as a separate file? If not, you
could just have transparent text fields positioned on top of the image
and fill them in as necessary.

Cheers,
Sarah