Welcome to another episode of MacBook studio we're looking at Final Cut Pro and doing some
bling to titles. We're adding some bling to our 3D titles. We're taking them a little bit further.
Can you add bling to 2D title? You can add bling to anything you want because we have a free plugin
Called Bling? It's not called bling but it does the bling thing. Awesome. Let's this dive in and take a look. So
here I'm in the Final Cut Pro, and right now I'm looking at the titles browser,
and the built-in 3D titles that ship with Final Cut Pro 10.2. And you can
apply our new plugin to any 3D title or any title or anything you want, but
works really great on 3D text, but I'm not gonna do that. I'm just showing that
they're there. I'm gonna go down to Ripple 3D Animations, Ripple 3D Title
Animations, because these are some supercharged 3D titles. They have a lot more parameters.
Yeah and the reason I'm using them will find out just a minute but if
you look in your browser you don't see them, and you want to know where can I get these
they're free. And all you need to do is download FX Factory, which is a plugin
management application. You download a FX Factory, and in the catalog you'll see
right here Ripple 3D title animation is there, free. And you just download them
and and go at it. Use them.
So I'm gonna take the one called Super Rotate, and add it to my time
line. By the way, Super Rotate's a really good title the bling on because it takes
rotates you'll really be able to see to see that. Yeah exactly, so by default it has its nice little
animation, and all go to the inspector here. I'm not going to change much in
here we've talked about these in another studio. I'll just choose tumble
characters to change the animation little bit. Now what I want to do is
basically add a light pass, add a glow, to these. Just leave the material the way it is. Yeah.
Built into motion is a new filter called Glint. It's actually 5.2 that it showed up? In
5.2 it showed up and it works great on 3D Text. It's not available in
Final Cut Pro, so we've done is just made it so you can use it in Final Cut Pro.
Very, very simple. And that's it's free and the place that you get it is a little
bit different causes not part of FX Factory. Actually you get from Ripple
Training website. So I'll show you here Ripple Training, you go to rippletraining.com
Click on the plugin section at the very top up here, and then scroll down past
our other plugins, and you'll see our free plugins. There's a lot of free plugins.
Yeah, and we've got more coming so there'll probably be more there by the time
you watch this. So there's the 3D Ripple RT Glint. So that's where you get
both of those. So now I've got Super Rotate, I'm gonna go to the effects
browser to the custom category, and there's RT Glint. And I'm gonna throw it
onto this 3D text. The text is now electrified. Yeah and now it's it's kind of crazy by
default, depending on what your material is and depending on what your
environment is. So you may have a very different result depending on what
you've done your text. I did nothing up just got the default material,
default environment and font, everything. So what I'm gonna do is go to
the video inspector, because that's where our effects live. And there's RT Glint I'm gonna
pull the exposure down so it's not quite so intense and I'm not gonna do anything
else. There's a lot of great parameters here, but I mostly want to focus on two ideas.
The first is that once you apply it, if your text moves and rotates at all- Hit
the forward slash key to play this clip- By the rotating you actually see that glint
kind of come on and off by itself. It looks beautiful. You didn't do anything and you
see a nice glint. Yeah it's kind of very very little work and I can take it much
further, but I will stop right there. And the other thing I can do as well, I'd like to see the glint
move across the text while it sitting still. Sure.
In fact, I can go back to the title inspector now.
For this title I'm gonna take the animation style and set it to none. So
just on- it's just there. It fades up and it's there.
Ok, but I want it to fade up and I want a nice light pass across it. Right.
Well, how do you do that? Well with the built-in titles you can't
do what I'm about to do. And that's why I'm using our free titles here. Because
with ours if we now go to the bottom of the title inspector, there's a parameter
a published parameter called Environmental Rotation, which will take the virtual
sphere that this text lives in- Right- That it's light is being
reflective of this text and rotated. So I'm gonna scrub in the Y rotation, Y value
the field- I see, it's not like the light's passing, it's like you're moving the world around it.
Yeah, but it effectively makes it look like light is passing across the text.
It looks really great. So I'm gonna back up to right before that like pass starts, and I'll set a
keyframe. And I'll move to a little later in time, and I'm gonna scrub to after
that light pass goes through. So now, if I play through that- I'll back up a little bit- I
get a nice light pass that I can exactly control. That's really nice. Okay, so makes it
super easy to create a nice glowing light pass on your text. And then you
could combine those. Now that I've done that, I could go back and turn the
animation back on. Maybe I'll take something different, like cascade is a nice
animation, and play that. And the text comes on we get a nice light pass and it rotates
out. Ok so, pretty fast and easy to create a nice light pass, glowing
bling to your text. And there is a lot of parameters in there, you can change the
color of the glint, change the thickness. You know, how many spikes. I mean there's all
these- What's great about these plugins is, you publish a lot of parameters, so you can really go in and play with them,
make some stuff that really looks interesting. And the trick is to go to all of these
inspectors, because in the title inspector, we have the published parameters
for this particular title. In the text
inspector, we have all of the 3D control. So for example, you could change the
material in here to a metal or something like, what did you say?
Like a steel or something. Yes like a steel or chrome or nickel or something else- Ooh, That looks cool.
Yeah that's a really pretty kind of blue. And then in the video inspector we have our
effect. So we can add a tint. So instead- its are already blue, give it a red tint. Awesome. Beautiful.
So now we can get a whole different look very very quickly. There that's I like
that better. That's really fantastic. And that was just a few changes. Just ran through a
couple quick changes, and we've got a whole new look of some nice steel that fades in. And to
me this is movie feature film quality kind of titles that you can do
very quickly with two free- a free title and a free plugin in Final Cut Pro with
3D text capabilities. Excellent, so you want to check that out, check our site, check out our free
plugins, and actually there's more than just Glint. You can download them all,
and you want to play with those.
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