welcome back everyone my name is joel and today i wanted to look at
what i think are the underutilized generators that are built into final cut pro you can actually use
them uh in ways that you maybe didn't even think possible so let's go ahead and check it out
so final cut has what are called generators and generators are elements that we can add into our
final cut project when we open up final cut they are located in the top left under the generators
and titles category or sidebar and so you have titles and generators now if i unfold generators
there's a couple different categories here some of these you'll see some of them you won't i've
also purchased some through motion vfx which you if you haven't checked them out they're
awesome best plugins hands down very intuitive they're just they're just awesome they're easy
to use the quality is just outstanding but the ones that you do have that are built in
are the 360 the backgrounds the elements the solids and the textures and so these elements
and these these generators are just ways to incorporate different items into your projects and
most of the time people will just look at the thumbnails here and just glaze over them and
maybe not really see the full potential of these generators
but the key is you there's actually so many more options that live within these generators
here let's take this grunge for example if i drag this down and create a new project
this here allows is just a static image however if i open up the inspector in the top right
i actually have different parameters some that look very similar but under the publish parameters
i have type so i actually have 15 different textures for this grunge look so i can go through
here and actually have a variety of different options for these clips and i can add a color
tint to them as well and drag this up to increase it but you have this ability to have all of these
different textures on here now the textures can be used in a different a couple different
ways they could be just a background and maybe some text or you could overlay this on you know
on top of a video clip so maybe i like this grunge feel if i went back and got some video footage if
i were to take this waterfall just drag it on top we're going to actually bring this down to
the primary storyline bring this up here so it's connected to the top i'm going to shorten this so
it's the duration of the clip so now this grunge is sitting on top of the video so if i take this
and i go to the video compositing i can choose normal select overlay and now it has this kind of
overlay feel of this grunge effect and i can play with all these other different options of how this
grunge interacts with the clip below it and maybe the waterfall isn't a good example or
maybe i could take this video footage of the weight equipment here and bring this
below replace this clip and kind of have this grunge feel on top of this you know weightlifting
equipment concept but my point is all of these different generators and textures here they
have the ability to go into the inspector to the publish parameters and you can change all
of how these look so lots and lots of different options that you may never even thought possible
with these generators same thing with backgrounds now the backgrounds are kind of more animated
if we take blobs for example and drag this up here we can change the the colors of the blobs
that move and again we could bring this back to the compositing to either drop the opacity
to bring that down again drop the opacity of this one but essentially you get the idea we're able to
add and overlay all of these different categories these elements these backgrounds uh to our video
clips so all of these here check them out they're actually really kind of cool and the fact that
you have the ability to go into the published parameters and you know tweak some of the settings
is is pretty nice to have so that's pretty much it for generators in final cut pro thank you so much
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