Change Calligraphy Text Entry Window Background Color

Final Cut Pro

In Calligraphy 2 we can change the background color to a better representation of the color of the video we'll be putting the text over by Control + Clicking on the background.

Control + Click anywhere in the background of the Text Entry Window for any of the Boris Calligraphy Text Generators (Title 3D, Title Crawl or Text Scrambler) to change the background color. Why would we want to do that? To make it a better representation of the background color from the video to judge how our color selections will look in the final composite. This is useful since we can't actually see video in the background of the title while in the Title Generators.

The standard system Color Picker will open. Set the color manually, or click the magnifying glass to sample a color from anywhere on the screen - inside Final Cut Pro or in any other part of the Desktop or another application. Usually we'll want to sample from the image.

With the background available behind the text, a rethink of the color was obviously necessary! The complementary to the background works better.