The default setting (60 in this case) is the setting for this parameter in Motion when you saved the clip. Now, when you apply this title in Final Cut to a clip in the timeline and select the clip, a new setting – Opacity – appears in the Title Animation Inspector. Since you are working with a copy, you are generally fine selecting Save the Original. If you Save the Duplicate, it creates a duplicate of the copy and saves it using the name and location you specify. NOTE: If you choose Save the Original, which I generally recommend, this updates the copy in the Titles Browser. This allows Final Cut to control the Opacity setting, as you’ll see shortly. More importantly, right-click the arrow to the right of Opacity (red arrow) and select Publish. Go to Inspector > Properties and change the Opacity to something less dense. In Motion, select the Background group, this contains the solid color background. (While you can change the size and font in Final Cut, you can’t change the position.) For this example, I’ll bring the text lower to match the Safe Zones. In Motion, you can adjust the size, position and default font for the text. This makes a copy of the title and opens the copy in Motion. While we can adjust font choice, color and size, we can’t change the position of the text to decrease vertical line spacing, better fit within Safe Zones or make the background more transparent.Ĭontrol-click the title in the Titles Browser (not the timeline) and choose Open a Copy in Motion. With the text clip selected in the Timeline, go to Inspector > Text Animation (red arrow). The text does not respect Safe Zones (indicated by the faint yellow lines) and the opacity of the background can’t be adjusted. But there is far more that we can do. Let me give you three examples. You are probably familiar with how to modify and adjust text in the Inspector. There are ways to adjust titles in Final Cut that provide far more than you might expect. It is easy to look at many of them and decide to write the whole collection off as useless. However, what you see is not necessarily what you can get. They ignore Safe Zones, the font choices are clunky, text is hard to read, or the backgrounds can’t be adjusted. What’s your favorite way to create 3D text in Final Cut Pro? Share your advice in the comments below.Many of the titles shipped with Apple Final Cut Pro are pretty, um, suboptimal. For additional Final Cut Pro tutorials, check out our Final Cut Pro X page here on PremiumBeat.įor more on editing in Final Cut Pro X, check out this breakdown of the key ingredients that go into one of your future edits. This is, of course, one of the many ways to stylize 3D titles in Final Cut Pro X. To make your text blend better with your background, apply the Color Correction effect to your text and change the levels as needed. Step 6: Apply Some Quick Color Correction In our example, we had our flare over the text for a few frames, then below for the remainder of its duration. Step 5: Add the Flare Elementĭrag your flare element into your composition.
You can do this by simply dragging your background video element down from your Clips panel. Move forward about five seconds and scale down the footage to create a drifting effect. Under the Video tab, add a scale keyframe by hitting the plus icon on the first frame. Change the Side Material to Metal>Old Steel.Select Multiple from the Materials Menu.Change Your Material to Metal>Brushed Circular.Increase the Intensity of the Lighting to 190%.Change the Custom Environment Map to ‘Soft Box Above’.Turn the Lighting Intensity Down to 20%.Change the Lighting Style to Diagonal Right.Perform the following steps to make your titles look exactly like our example: Pick a font that looks great on screen.įor our example we’ll use the font called Marion. From this tab you can adjust all the various parameters that are going to make your text awesome. With your text selected in the timeline, navigate to the Text tab in the Inspector window at the top right of the Final Cut Pro window. In our example, we’re using 1080p HD at 23.98 frames per second. Choose whatever is appropriate for your project.
When you drag the file into your timeline, you’ll be prompted to name the resolution and frame rate of your timeline. You’ll find this effect under the Titles tab - it’s the one with the large “ T” icon. To get started, drag the Tumble 3D text effect into your timeline.
Creating 3D Titles in Final Cut Pro X Step 1: Drag the Text to Your Timeline