In this video,
we’ll take a look at how to
animate titles in Final Cut Pro
without the need for any plugins
or keyframes.
Hey guys, whats up.
This is Serge and welcome back to my channel.
Today, we’re going to take a look
at one of the most overlooked,
but extremely versatile built in titles
that comes with Final Cut Pro,
the Custom Title.
Let’s jump into Final Cut Pro
and take a look at what we can do with it.
If you open the Titles and Generators browser,
in the Build In/Out category,
you’ll see a Custom Title.
Let’s add it to our timeline,
and see what you can do with it.
When you first add it, it’s just a plain,
simple title, with no animations
or anything like that,
so basically the same as the Basic Title.
In the Text inspector, you can enter your text,
change your font, size, colors,
and a bunch of other parameters,
to make it look exactly the way you want.
Still very much the same as the Basic Title.
But, when you select the Title’s Inspector Tab,
this is where the Custom Title
stands out above the rest.
You have all these parameters
you can adjust for the In and Out animations,
and the best part of it all,
is you don’t have to use any keyframes.
First, let’s make our title
come in from the right side of the screen.
Place your playhead at the start of your clip,
just so you can see any adjustments,
and head back up to the video inspector.
To make the title come in from the right side,
all you need to adjust the Position X value,
until the text is completely off screen.
Click the number beside the X position,
and drag up until all your text is off screen.
Now if we play this back,
by default,
the titles animates onto your screen
one letter at a time.
If you want your full title to come on
at the same time,
in the Inspector,
for unit size, select all.
Now, if we play it back,
the entire title slides onto your screen
at the same time.
You can apply each one of these animations
one character at a time,
one word at a time,
one line at a time,
or like we did before,
the entire title at the same time.
Let’s set this for one line at a time.
Next, if you want to speed up
or slow down this animation,
you can do so by using the Duration slider.
Dragging this slider left,
will speed up your animation,
and dragging it to the right, will slow it down.
Let’s drag this slider to the left a bit to speed it up.
I’ll set mine to around 30.
You can also change the speed type
of this animation from Constant,
to Ease In or Our or Both,
or even accelerate or decelerate
your animation into the viewer.
For this example,
let’s set this to decelerate.
Here’s what we have so far.
Let’s customize this a little more.
First, let’s fade our title onto the screen as it comes in.
For this, all you have to do
is drag the opacity slider all the way down to zero.
You title now fades in at the same time
it moves into your frame.
We can also add some fake motion blur,
to make the animation smoother.
Open the dropdown menu beside the In Blur slider,
and since our title only move on the X axis,
bring up the X axis slider all the way up.
If you want even more blur,
after the slider is maxed all the way out,
you can go even higher
by clicking the number beside it and dragging up.
Let’s set this to about one hundred.
Also, let’s bring up the tracking slider,
to animate in the character tracking into title.
Since we’re animating our title one line at a time,
the second line animation doesn’t start
until the line before it is finished.
If you want it to start sooner,
you can set that with the Spread slider.
So, if we set this to 2,
you can see the second line
start to move onto your screen
before the first line is in place.
So, now we have this cool In animation,
all done without using a single keyframe.
Next, let’s animate Out our title at the end.
For the end animation,
let’s make the title move all the way toward the viewer,
until it’s completely off screen.
Open the dropdown menu beside the Out Position,
select the number beside the Z axis,
and drag up until your title
is completely off-screen.
Holding down the Shift key while dragging, l
ets you adjust the position in larger increments.
For the Unit Size,
let’s select all,
speed up the duration,
set the speed type to Accelerate,
and add a little bit of blur to it.
Here’s our finished result,
all done without using a single keyframe.
And, as far as keyframes go,
just because you don’t need to use keyframes,
doesn’t mean you shouldn’t.
If you look in the inspector,
each one of these parameters
has a keyframe button beside it,
to let you adjust these animations even more.
Play around with it,
and see what cool effects you can come up with.
Here’s just a few examples I came up with.
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