Today, we’re taking a look at the FCPX Shift plugin
from the sponsor of this video, Pixel Film Studios.
This plugin features over 500 media altering effects,
you simply drag and drop over your media and get instant results.
Hey guys, what’s up.
My name is Serge, and welcome back to my channel.
In this video, we’ll take a look at just a few
of over 500 presets included with this plugin,
and how you can customize them
to look exactly the way you want.
Let’s jump right into Final Cut Pro and get started.
After installing the FCPX Shift plugin,
you’ll find all the presets in your titles and generators browser.
All these presets are organized into a number of categories,
including bars,
grids,
shapes and more.
Skim over one of these presets to preview what the animation looks like.
Let’s start off with a simple one, with just two layers,
so I can easily explain how to customize it.
Add this preset to your timeline above your video clip,
and ripple trim it to the length you need.
If you see a bunch of random characters in your viewer window like this,
this means there’s a minor glitch with the font used.
There’s a super easy fix for this.
Simply head up to the inspector window,
select the text inspector, and choose a different font.
While here, you can change your text,
and modify it’s appearance to make it look exactly the way you like.
Once done, head over to the titles inspector
to adjust the appearance of your media.
The controls for all these presets are all the same,
so what we’ll look at in this preset
will apply to all the other presets as well.
Near the top, you can select edit mode
to help you identify the clone layers.
This is helpful for presets with multiple clone layer,
and will help you identify exactly which layer you’re adjusting.
We’ll leave this off for now.
The Gird Title layer checkbox,
when selected
mirrors your clone layers during animation to fill the entire frame.
If you leave this off, you’ll simply see your original clip
that’s under your title layer.
Under these, you have mask controls,
but we’ll come back to this later.
For now, let’s scroll down to our clone layers,
and reframe the images inside them.
Use the sliders for Clone layer 1
to adjust the position and rotation of your image on the left side of the screen.
The controls for clone layer 2
adjust the position of the image on the right side of the viewer window.
You can also change the timing of these animations
to Identical or staggered timing.
Above that you have the option of changing
a bunch of animation parameters for your text.
If you’ve ever used a custom title that comes with Final Cut Pro,
these controls are very similar.
Play around with these until you find something you like.
Above the text controls,
you also have mask controls,
which allows you to adjust the scale and position of your clone layers.
With just a few simple adjustments,
we were able to make this cool shifting title effect.
Let’s take a look at another one.
This time, we’ll try a more complex one, with a few more layers.
Just like before, add it to your timeline,
and ripple trim it to the length you want.
To make things easier to see, for the time being,
let’s delete the text.
We’ll start off with the middle layer,
which in this case is clone layer three.
Use the position Y slider
to bring the split between the two to the middle of the frame,
and Position Z slider to zoom out on the clip.
Next, let’s use the controls for clone layer two
to position our runner on the right side of the screen
at a 90 degree angle.
Repeat the same steps for clone layer one
to replicate this effect on the left side.
Go up to text controls, and add and adjust your title text.
Render out your clip for this cool effect.
Let’s take a look at one more, and like always,
I like to save the best for last.
But, before we do,
I want to take a minute to thank the sponsor of this video,
Pixel Film Studios.
Besides making all these awesome plugins,
Pixel Film Studios is also a great place to learn Final Cut Pro.
Their youtube channel features a playlist
with over 200 tutorial videos to help you learn how to edit.
All these are professionally made,
and the playlist is even featured on Apple’s website as a training resource.
Make sure to click the link in the video description to check it out.
Now, back to Final Cut Pro.
Scroll all the way down to text style presets,
and skim over one of these to preview the animation.
In these, instead of using solid color for text,
as you can see,
you get a text mask with a clone layer inside the text.
Let’s add one of these to our timeline,
delete the text, and first, position the images inside these layers.
Next, add your text,
change the appearance,
and position the title where you want it.
Use the controls for clone layer five
to select what part of the frame you want inside the letters.
Let your clip render out, and here’s our finished result.
If this plugin is something you might be interested in,
during checkout, use the coupon code SERGEPIXEL
for 30 percent off this plugin, limited to the first 500 users.
Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you back here next week.