a big reason I love Final Cut Pro is the huge amount of plugins that supercharge
it to get more complex looking stuff done faster
and in this video I go over some of the plugins I find myself using constantly
I'm Rafael and welcome to the channel where our goal is always fix it in camera and then finesse
it in post and make sure to subscribe if you like these kind of videos because I love me some
plugins the first plugin is mgrid from motion VFX this is meant for simulating Zoom calls or Skype
calls but I mainly use it for split screens and reveals on the surface it's a really simple plugin
but it is so powerful when you want to do very elegant reveals and transitions I use it a lot for
side-by-side comparisons especially with cameras but it allows me to have two video clips playing
at the exact same time on the screen and it animates in and out so this is the horizontal two
by one but you can also do the horizontal two by two and it's very simple and intuitive to to use
and move the footage where you want so with this plugin you can actually build a full on video wall
if that's what you want it to do I'm just going to set it back to the 2x2 side by side and I mostly
use it for reveals like this where I get to show a background behind or it's still animation behind
and it's a great way to reveal lists or features with footage in the background so you can still be
on screen while you're talking about a particular product that you're working with so this is why
I really like this plug-in but it also comes with Avatar animations if you're working with a lot of
vertical video this will allow you to do the same thing there and it's just very smooth plug-in and
has all the great things that motion VFX plugins have it has the animate on and off and you can
actually choose different ways that it animates in so if you want to blur your animation in
it will do that as well so it's not just a slide it actually allows you to do many different types
of animations in the best suit the way you are presenting or you can do top and bottom split
screens it just allows for a lot of different options another thing I use this plugin for is
picture in picture it just adds so much more control to be able to do these kind of things
relatively quickly with just this one plugin for such a seemingly simple plugin I use this one
a lot the next plugin that I have found myself using quite a bit and this surprised me is the
m tracker 3D area now initially I thought this was before like aerial shots or drone shots that would
be useful for Real Estate videos but I find myself using it for product videos where you can track in
animations and build to highlight certain features this is the kind of work that I would constantly
do in After Effects but being able to do it in Final Cut Pro relatively quickly especially for
the kind of work that I do even just visualizing it and just doing a proof of concept this is a
great way to go about that you do need to have M tracker 3D the base plugin to get all the tracking
information these are just all the different animations that can come with it once you have
M tracker 3D you can track the footage you can paste the track onto the area plug-in you can
simply find the area that you want to have an area marked out and it's such a simple plug-in to use
where it's all rounded out let's say we want to have Mac Mini go over here you add in a label and
it adds in the label and you can actually adjust the rotation so if you want to have a different
kind of rotation to this title so say you wanted it kind of floating above have it floating above
again I didn't think I would use as much as I do but I find myself going to it quite often if I
want to talk about the dimensions of a product or highlight a certain feature of it this is a great
way to achieve that very quickly especially when I'm making YouTube videos it allows me
to highlight something very specific so the audience knows exactly what I'm talking about
and it looks fantastic now this plugin can be used for Aerials and real estate videos it's a
more versatile plug-in than I initially thought it would be for me because of the kind of stuff that
I'm doing it but really allows me to highlight things for product videos so that's M tracker
3D area from time to time motion VFX has some big discounts and sales that go on for instance Black
Friday and Cyber Monday they usually have some really huge deals so if you're in the market for
these kind of plugins that's the time to check it out but as plugins go these are some of the
best plugins on the market for Final Cut Pro and the amount of work and design that goes into these
are I'm always amazed with it the next plugin I find myself using constantly is captionator for
Final Cut Pro this is literally what it says it is it takes the audio from your clip and it adds
captions to it now we can do single words multiple words and especially if you're doing a lot of
YouTube shorts or Tick Tock videos or Instagram videos this is a great way to add captions to
your project in Final Cut Pro it's a very simple plugin to use as well select the clip that you
want the in and out go to share captionator and then it will export the audio only and open up
the captionator as as a standalone plugin so that's exported it processes it and the whole
and you can adjust the way everything looks here so I want I want white titles
you can add a border and this doesn't really matter because you can actually change it after
it's just a quick way to set the style right in you can choose your font here too and you can add
captions as well but we're gonna leave this one to one word but you can actually add multiple words
if you wanted to I'm going to leave it one to one and then two things before you hit generate make
sure you choose if you want it to be all uppercase all lowercase or the proper case for pop-up titles
I use uppercase and just make sure you have your build in or build out it depends on what you want
to do then you click generate save the file where you want to save it and it'll ask you
to import it into the Final Cut project that you want to work in you'll get a generated captions
and you can actually see that you have you have both captions and animated titles but for this
case I'm just going to copy the animated titles go into the timeline that you want to add them in
from the endpoint that you said before that's where you paste them and they do come in the
center so what I typically do is I go to the properties I position it where I want and I
copy that first one and paste it onto the rest so I just want to make sure it's the position
and then you have stream on my second Channel where I deep dive on the creative process as
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and I'll see you in the next one bye for now so it's a great tool if you want to have animated
captions in your videos especially if you do lots of YouTube shorts tick tocks Instagram reels this
is the way to get animated captions in Final Cut Pro the next plugin is keeper this is a great way
to isolate people from backgrounds and it's only for people at the moment I don't know if they'll
add in objects or anything like that but right now it's a great way to just isolate someone
from the background this is a really good way to add text behind people or if you want to color
correct just the background you want to do any kind of special effects on the people that are
in the foreground so in this case if I wanted to add the text behind me before I would have
to go into after effects and use the rotor brush or do some kind of masking use the draw mask but
keeper allows you to just copy the footage that you have place it on top and just drag it and
in most cases you don't have to do anything to it but you can definitely add it to high
and just fine tune it until it gets to where you want it to be and then you get text behind people
or if I if I just wanted to color correct the background it's a very quick way to be able to
just color correct everything in the background without having to have any kind of weird masks
this quickly uses AI to generate the mask right on your footage and in most cases it's really good
I found that when people have really crazy hair or really fine detail this plugin does struggle
with that so just be cautious of when and how you can use this plugin but for clean lines
and clothing and hats this plug-in works really well to isolate the person from the background
and finally color finale which is still one of my go-to color correction tools if you want to do any
kind of serious color correcting in Final Cut Pro this is the plug-in to have it has a similar feel
and workflow to DaVinci Resolve if you've ever used that before but the features that I love
most about it is that it has its color management feature where you can just tell it to assume that
your footage is Log and boom 95 of the work is done then you just go in and you can make your
final tweaks to make sure that the skin tones are correct I'm just going to double check them here
and make sure that the skin tones line up on the skin tone indicator and then turn it back on and
we have a usable image in a few clicks this also has film emulation if you have a color chart it
allows you to color match it to that there's some image analysis tools and it has color wheels it
has curves it has your six vectors it has the hsl curves and so many more tools if you really
want to dive into your color correction it also has masks that you can add it has track masks
there's so many powerful features in this plugin to get your footage the way you want it to look
another little feature that I love about this plugin it has an auto white balance for shots
that I don't know if the color temperature was shot properly and it has a Color Picker where
you can just go in and choose a a section that should be gray or white and it'll white balance
fairly well and you can just do your final little tweaks after that just for the assume
log and the auto white balance themselves are great little tools but the plugin is so much
more powerful than that and in this video I do a deep dive into color finale and why it's my
favorite also I live stream on my second Channel where I deep dive on the creative process as
well as freelance financials so make sure you check that out as always thanks for watching