When you add titles to your project,
for text color, you get two options.
You can either choose a solid color, or a gradient.
That’s boring.
In this video, we’l take a look at a few different ways
you can bring your text to life in Final Cut Pro
First, let’s take a look at animating text color in your video.
When you add a title to your project,
in the text inspector,
you can pick the face color of your text,
but there’s no keyframe option here,
so you can’t animate it.
If you want to have your text color change throughout the clip,
there is a way to do it.
In the text inspector,
change your text color back to white,
and press Command 5 to open the effects browser.
Select the color category,
grab the colourize effect,
and drag and drop it onto your title clip.
Go back to the video inspector,
click on the Remap White To color box,
and select your starting color.
Bring the Intensity slider
all the way up to 100 percent for a true color.
Doing it this way,
give you an option to keyframe this parameter.
With your playhead at the start of the title clip,
add a keyframe here.
Move your playhead about 20 frames ahead,
and select a different color.
For this example,
let’s go through all the colors in this row,
so let’s pick orange next.
Move ahead about 20 more frames,
and pick the next color.
Since this parameter is keyframed,
any time you change it, a new keyframe is added.
Go through your title clip,
and pick the next color about every 20 frames.
Come back around to red when you’re all the way through.
Render out your clip, and this is our result.
Next, let’s take a look at how to add some texture to a normal 2D title.
Add a title to your project,
replace the text,
select a heavy font to make the texture visible,
and make it nice and big.
I want the text for this example to to have a concrete texture,
so I’ll select a grey color for my text.
Go up to your titles and generators browser,
and from the generators dropdown menu,
select the textures category.
Grab the stone texture generator,
and add it above your title clip.
In the generators inspector,
change the Type to concrete 2.
Go back to the video inspector,
and change the blend mode of this generator clip to Overlay.
To only have this texture effect our text,
we need to add a mask.
Select the masks category,
and add an image mask to your top clip.
Click on the mask source button,
select your title clip,
and click apply clip.
Instead of having a plain color for our text,
we now have this cool concrete texture.
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Now, back to Final Cut Pro.
If you want your title to really stand out in your project,
placing a video clip inside your text is a really cool option.
Press Control T to add your default title to your timeline,
replace the text,
select your font and make it nice and big.
Once again, try and use a heavy font for this.
Next, select a video clip or an animation
to place inside your text.
I’m using this cool abstract lightning clip
downloaded from envato elements.
Place this clip directly under your title clip.
Use the transform tool to resize and reposition this clip if necessary.
Select your title clip,
and head up to the video inspector.
From the blend mode dropdown menu,
select stencil alpha.
This places your video inside the letters of your title,
with a black background.
Once again, use the transform tool on the video clip
to adjust your framing if needed.
To make the black background transparent,
command click the title clip and your video clip,
and combine them into a compound clip
with the keyboard shortcut Option G.
Now, instead of a plain, boring color for your clip,
you have this cool animated background inside your letters.
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