There are three title tools in MC5
    Title Tool
    Marquet
    Avid FX - FX Filter

For Avid FX
Link 135  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 1: My First Encounters                                       
Link 136  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 2: First Encounters continue..
Link 137  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 3: Holding a Title onscreen                        
Link 138  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 4: Add another Text-Page and some Fades 
Link 139  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 5: Making a Title of a specific Length                
Link 141  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 6: Making and using a Title Template           
Link 142  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 6A: Correcting a vital mistake made in Part 6!
Link 143  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 7: A simple Text Roll                                   
Link 144  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 8: Animating Type-on Text                          
Link 145  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 9: Type-on Text Revisited                           
Link 146  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 10: The Vector Trace Tool       

One thing I do not understand in AMM media manager) is that when you change the name of a title tool file in a bin, the name changes in the bin, but wjhen you put it on the timeline or source window, it retains the original name ?

hilitli:

Do I need to use the "scroll position V"?

Yes.

You will have at minimum 4 keyframes for this to work.  A will be at the head B will be the point at which you rolls stops C will be the point at which your roll continues and D will be the end.

In the Effect Editor, scrub through until you find the frame you want to stop on.  Add a keyframe there, (this is B) and note it's Scroll Position V value.  Move whatever distance ahead that you want the freeze to hold (ie, 2-3 secs) and add another keyframe (this is C) Copy B and Paste onto C.  This will give B and C the same value.  

Keyframes are just changes in parameters over time, so if you want something to hold at a point you have to have two identical keyframes set that are only separated by time.

The maximum length for a title clip is 2 minutes. You can place it in the source monitor, mark the entire clip end to end, mark an in at the beginning of your sequence and then just hit the "B" key repeatedly until you have looped enough of that clip.

Solution: CTRL double click the title clip in it's bin. The title tool opens with that title clip ready for editing and re-saving. Never have to touch a timeline. Saves a lot of keystrokes and clicking.

Learn about the many titling capabilities of the Avid Marquee Title Tool. Follow along with the lessons to quickly create basic title types and to create more advanced titles that use Marquee's 3D, lighting, and animation features.
 

The main problem with this, is that most of the file types that can be exported from Photoshop "pre-multiply" their foreground (fill) and their Alpha Channel when imported into Avid. This means that if you have any transparency or shadowing in your graphics, they won't "mix" correctly with your video background. The following image shows this problem. The drop shadow is keying over white instead of the flower colours in the video image, leading to a fringing effect.
 

To get around this problem, you can use the Portable Network Graphics or PNG file format which uses unmatted or straight transparency.
 

1. Create your graphics as normal in Photoshop including any text or drop shadows. Create these graphics on New Photoshop layers, instead of directly on the default background layer.
2. Delete your background layer so that your graphics appear on top of the Photoshop "checkerboard" background, indicating transparent parts of the image.
3. Save your logo as a .png file and choose No interlacing when the dialog appears.
4. In Avid, use File > Import and in the dialog Options... choose Non-interlaced and Invert Existing for the Alpha information.
5. Avid will import your PNG file as a real-time matte key.
6. Load your imported file into the source monitor.
7. Edit onto the video layer above your background, and you should now have a key that "mixes" with your background, like the one below:
 

This takes a bit of getting used to - you have to create your own leeway on static titles, and think carefully over dynamic titles.  In liquid, one could create a static title and then 'animate' it with the effects filters.  One could do the same in MC - but there is no point: it can be animated within the titler - but you have to determine its length at the outset. 

It's a different way of thinking - and for me anyway, that aspect of MC, once accepted, is preferable to the Liquid way.

I am sure I will get used to the MC way of dealing with images - the only issue I have with it is the extra time taken to add in and out points on a image clip if a transition is required, this isnt too time consuming for a handfull of images but if you are trying to do an extended montage I would imagine it could get a little tiresome.

Peace of cake, add all the images you want to have the same handles on into one bin, press ctrl-a to select all, be sure to be in the correct mode for the bin.

Now, step with the button you have selected for 10 frames forward as many times as you want the handles to be long, press your button for mark in, continue to step forward until you have reached the length that you want the clips to be and press your button for mark out.

Done

After that, only use the clips as markers on the sequense and add Avid P & Z and link from the filter to the origin images or use BCC P&Z ( my prefered workflow ) to do the same thing

tutorials

AvidFX is a very close relative to Boris Red which in its turn includes the Boris Grafitti Title Tool.

The interface is quite different from the more "standard" Title Tools. But if you can spend some time learning the basics you will probably find that that Title Tool can do all you ever wanted and lots more. Anything from a plain simple static title to the most complex animated 3D titles effects. But you need to have patience and put in a lot of time practising and playing with it.

My intentions are to make a short series of Tutorials on the Title Tool in AvidFX. This is the first of them

Regards, Douglas
               
Link 135  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 1: My First Encounters                                       
Link 136  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 2: First Encounters continue..                     
Link 137  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 3: Holding a Title onscreen                        
Link 138  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 4: Add another Text-Page and some Fades 
Link 139  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 5: Making a Title of a specific Length          
Link 140  Media Management - Tips when using a Bin's Text View Mode                     
Link 141  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 6: Making and using a Title Template           
Link 142  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 6A: Correcting a vital mistake made in Part 6!
Link 143  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 7: A simple Text Roll                                   
Link 144  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 8: Animating Type-on Text                          
Link 145  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 9: Type-on Text Revisited                           
Link 146  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 10: The Vector Trace Tool