In today’s video,
we’ll take a look at how to highlight text,
and bring your boring old screen shots to life
with a camera fly over effect.
All this can be done right in Final Cut Pro,
without the need to download or install any plugins.
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First, let's take a look at how to draw attention
to a specific part of your screen shot by highlighting text.
Grab your screen shot clip,
and drag it down into your timeline.
Next, open the titles and generators browser,
expand the generators dropdown menu,
and select the Solids category.
Grab the Custom generator clip,
drag in down into your timeline,
and place it above your screen shot clip.
Ripple trim it to the same length as your bottom clip.
Press Command 4 to open the inspector window,
and select the generators inspector.
First thing we want to do
is change the color of this generator
to the color we want to use for the highlighter.
Click on the color square,
and select the color of your highlighter.
I’ll use Lemon for this demo.
To make the text underneath visible,
select the video inspector,
and change the blend mode to Darken.
Next, let’s select the text we want to highlight.
Press Command 5 to open the effects browser,
and in the search bar at the bottom,
search for the Crop & Feather effect.
Grab this effect, and apply it to your generator clip.
In the video inspector,
use the Height & Width sliders
to adjust the size of your highlighted area,
and the position controls to place it
over the text you want to highlight.
You might have to zoom in on your viewer window
to more precisely adjust the size and placement of this effect.
If you find the adjustment sliders are a bit too sensitive for this
you can always click on the number beside the slider,
and manually enter a value.
After you get your highlighted area exactly where you need it,
use the feather slider to feather out the edges,
and make this effect look more realistic.
To animate this highlighter effect,
zoom back out on your viewer window,
and place your playhead on the frame
you want this effect to start on.
From the transform dropdown under the viewer window
select Crop, and click on the Trim Tool.
Grab the handle on the right side of the trim frame,
and drag it over to the left,
until it’s just to the left side of the effect.
Add a keyframe here.
Move your playhead ahead about 20 frames,
and drag the crop handle to the right,
until your full highlighter effect is revealed.
Click done.
Here’s what we have so far.
Next, let’s animate this screenshot
with a camera flyover effect to make this look even better.
First, command click both your clips,
and use the keyboard shortcut Option G
to make them into a compound clip.
With the compound clip selected,
from the transform dropdown, select the distort tool.
Zoom out on on your viewer window,
and use corner handles to add a bit of perspective to your image.
If you want this to be symmetrical,
in the inspector window,
manually adjust the similar value so they’re exactly the same.
Click done.
Move your playhead to where you want the animation to start,
select the transform tool,
and use either the on screen controls,
or the sliders in the inspector window
to set your starting camera position.
Add a keyframe here.
Move your playhead to where you want the animation to end,
and set your end camera position.
Right click on each control point in the viewer window,
and change the movement type from smooth to linear.
Click done.
And last, to make this look even more realistic,
let’s add some depth of focus blur.
Select your clip in the timeline,
and make another compound clip.
Go back to the effects browser,
select the Blurs category,
and add the focus blur effect to your clip.
With your playhead at the start of your clip,
in the inspector, drag the height slider all the way up to 100,
and depending on the amount or distortion in your screen shot,
adjust the width slider until the blur looks realistic.
To make this more subtle,
I recommend bringing the amount down to about 15 or 20.
Use the on-screen controls to move the center point
to an area in your clip you want to be in focus at the start.
Make sure this is on the close side of your frame.
Add keyframes to all your focus parameters here.
Next, move your playhead to the end of your clip,
and move and adjust the focus point
until your highlighted text is completely in focus.
Here’s the shot we started with,
and out finished result.
And all this was done right in Final Cut Pro,
without any plugins.
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let me know by hitting the like button, or in the comments below.
Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next one.