Final cut title template – Apple Motion 5.1.1 User Manual
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Final Cut Pro X templates
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Final Cut Title template
The Final Cut Title template contains a text layer (Type Text Here) and a placeholder layer (Title
Background). Modify the text, as necessary. Animate the text using behaviors or keyframes, and
add text layers and text effects, if needed. Filters and behaviors applied to the Title Background
placeholder modify the clip that the title effect is applied to in Final Cut Pro. Drag an image
to the Title Background layer to preview the effect. (The preview image does not appear in
Final Cut Pro.) Or, if you don’t want to modify the clip in Final Cut Pro, delete the Title Background
placeholder.
When you save the template in Motion, the new title effect is automatically exported to the
Final Cut Pro Titles Browser. There are two ways to apply a title effect in Final Cut Pro:
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Drag the title effect above a clip (or clips) in the Timeline to the frame. When you release the
mouse button, the title is anchored to the clip, and the clip is used as the background. The title
can span multiple clips in the Timeline. The clips populate the title background placeholder, so
underlying clips assume any transforms, filters, and so on that were applied to the placeholder
in Motion.
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Add the title effect to the main Timeline as a clip. If the title effect contains a Title Background
placeholder, the placeholder is ignored, and a background clip cannot be specified.
If the title effect is added as a clip to the main Timeline in Final Cut Pro X, you can use a
standard drop zone to specify a background source clip. For more information, see
on page 408.
When added to the Final Cut Pro Timeline, the duration of the title effect is the same as
the template created in Motion. The title effect has adjustable In and Out points in the
Final Cut Pro project.
To create a template that lets you use the background in the ways discussed above, you can
publish a rigged checkbox that turns the drop zone on or off in the main Timeline. Alternatively,
you can create two versions of the title template, one that uses a standard drop zone as a
background and one that uses the default Title Background placeholder. For more information
on rigging, see
on page 370. For more information on publishing, see
Publishing parameters in templates overview
on page 420.
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