Apple Motion 5.1.1 - Manual (Page 386)

Chapter 11 Final Cut Pro X templates 386
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Final Cut Title: Use this template to create a custom text animation that can be added to
a Final Cut Pro sequence. Text might flare in or out in a fiery glow, or fall into place from
offscreen. After you the save the template in Motion, the title effect appears in the Titles
Browser in Final Cut Pro.
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Final Cut Generator: Use this template to create generalized graphical content that can be
added to a Final Cut Pro project. A Final Cut Generator is nearly identical to any other Motion
project—it can include text, shapes, replicators, camera moves and lighting, generators, and
so on. It can be static or animated. After you the save the template in Motion, the generator
appears in the Generators Browser in Final Cut Pro.
Important: Because you cannot change template types after you open a project, determine
what kind of template you want to build before creating a Motion project.
Note: A standard Motion project can also be published as a generator in Final Cut Pro X. For
more information, see
Publish a standard Motion project as a Final Cut Pro X generator on
page 418.
Like all Motion projects, Final Cut Pro templates can have 2D and 3D groups, as well as
animation created with behaviors or keyframes. For more information on working in 3D, see
3D compositing overview on page 908. For more information on animation in templates, see
Animation and timing in templates on page 427.
How templates work
How templates work overview
Creating a template begins in the Motion Project Browser, where you select one of four template
types—Final Cut Effect, Final Cut Transition, Final Cut Title, or Final Cut Generator—then click
Open. The new Motion project that opens contains graphical placeholders—target layers
where you apply Motion behaviors, filters, and other effects that combine to create an effect
for Final Cut Pro X. (Placeholders, which appear in the Canvas as downward arrow graphics, are
similar to drop zones in standard Motion projects.) You can drag an image or video clip into a
placeholder layer to preview the effect you’re building, but those images do not appear in the
Final Cut Pro project. This is because effect, transition, and title templates are intended to modify
footage in the Final Cut Pro Timeline, not images and footage in Motion.
Even though images in the placeholder layers do not appear in the resulting Final Cut Pro effect,
any new layers you add to a template (shapes, paint strokes, images, and so on) and their applied
effects (lighting, camera moves, filters, for example) are visible in the Final Cut Pro project. These
layers, which appear composited over the clip the effect is applied to, cannot be separated
from the effect. For this reason, it is ill-advised to add image layers to effect, transition, and
title templates.
However, in generator templates there are no image restrictions. Because generator templates
deliver image content (not just special effects) to Final Cut Pro, images, clips, and applied effects
are propagated to the Final Cut Pro project and appear in the Viewer when applied.
Note: Although you can drag a video clip into a placeholder layer for preview purposes, the clip’s
duration can interfere with timing built into the template. For that reason, it’s better to use still
images in templates when you need to preview an effect. Additionally, complex Motion layer
effects such as particle emitters and replicators are not recommended for use in any template
types, because they might negatively affect Final Cut Pro performance.
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