Today, we’ll take a look at how you can easily animate video clips,
still images, icons, titles and more without a single keyframe,
using the FCPX Animation Mega Pack from Pixel Film Studios.
Hey guys, whats up.
My name is Serge and welcome back to my channel.
In this video, we’ll be taking a look
at the FCPX Animation Mega Pack plugin from Pixel Film Studios.
This plugin features over 300 unique tools
and over 30,000 animations to choose from.
You can use it to animate to animate single clips,
images or graphics, use a combination of the effects
to put together video intros, photo slideshows,
logo reveals and more,
and even use these effects to transition between clips.
Let’s jump into Final Cut Pro
and take a look at how you can use the effects
included in this plugin to make better videos.
After installing the plugins included in this mega pack,
you’ll find all the effects from ProAnimation and ProAnimation 2.0
in your titles browser,
and additional Mega Pack Effects in the title browser,
and the effects browser.
To preview the animations,
simply skim over one of the presets in the browser.
First, let’s take a look at the basics,
and use this plugin to animate in and out a simple video clip.
Place your skimmer about one second into your clip,
and press Command B to blade it.
In the effects browser, select the FCPX Animation Mega Pack,
choose your in animation preset,
and drag and drop it over the first part of the clip.
This is what the default animation looks like,
but if you head up to the video inspector,
you’ll see quite a few controls you can customize there.
Since, this is at the start of the clip,
we’ll leave the Animation Type to Animate In.
The Animation Selection dropdown,
let you adjust the timing of the animation.
Let’s change ours to Fast In Slow Out.
The Animation Strength slider adjust when your animation starts and ends,
and you can also flip the animation, by using this checkbox.
Under this, you also have controls to adjust Motion Blur,
and also Transform Parameters.
Play with this until you get it looking just the way you want to.
Animating our clip out is very similar.
Place your skimmer where you want to start,
and press Command B to blade your clip.
Add your chosen preset to the last part of your clip,
change the Animation Type to Animate Out,
and adjust your parameters.
This is how simple it is to animate your clips
without having to use any keyframes.
Next, let’s take a look at how to use a combination
of these presets to make a custom video intro.
But, before we do, let’s take a minute
to talk about the sponsor of this video, Pixel Film Studios.
Besides making a lot of cool and useful plugins for Final Cut Pro,
Pixel Film Studios is also a great resource for training.
They have a playlist with over 200 free tutorial videos,
all focused on Final Cut Pro.
Whether you’re just starting out and want to learn the basics,
or need to learn a specific feature or effect,
chances are, this playlist has a tutorial for you.
I’ll leave a link to it in the description below.
Now back to Final Cut Pro.
We’ll start off with a dynamic background for our intro.
To make things simple, let’s just use one of Final Cut Pro’s
built in background generators.
Next, to make it less boring, we’ll animate this in and out.
Select the ProAnimation 2 plugin, and skim over some of the presets.
Once you find the one you like,
with your playhead at the start of your clip,
press Q to connect this adjustment layer to your clip.
This animation will be applied to everything
under our adjustment layer, which at the time,
is only the generator clip.
Next, scroll down to the Animate Out category,
and select a preset for your out animation.
Move your playhead to the end of your clip,
hold down the Shift Key and press Q
to perform a back-timed connect edit.
This will align the adjustment layer’s end point to the playhead.
Now, with our background layer animated,
let’s bring in our Logo and some text.
Place the playhead a few frames before the end of the first adjustment layer,
press Command 1 to go to the media browser,
select the logo you want to add,
and press Q to connect it to your timeline.
Move the skimmer to the start of your second adjustment layer,
and with the connected clip selected,
press Option & Right Bracket
to trim the end of your connected clip to the skimmer.
Press Shift T to select the transform tool,
reposition the logo to the left side of the screen
and adjust the size.
Press Enter to deactivate.
the transform tool.
Press Option Command 1 to go back to the titles browser,
select the ProAnimation plugin,
and locate the Spring Master adjustment layer in the Animate In category.
Add this above the connected clip in your timeline.
This is a master adjustment layer,
that all the included presets are based on.
It gives you full control of any animations in the inspector window.
Scroll down to Animation Controls,
and select the type of animation you want to add to this logo.
First, let’s set the direction to Front Animation number 1.
If you skim over the clip,
you’ll notice the adjustment layer not only affects the logo under it,
but also the generator clip below that.
I’ll show you how to deal with that a little later in the video.
For now, just select the generator clip, and press V to disable it.
Select the adjustment layer again,
and adjust the parameters in the inspector
until you have it looking the way you want.
Once done, skim over your clip until you get to the end of the animation,
and press Option and Right Bracket key
to trim the end of your adjustment layer to the skimmer.
Next, let’s add some text to our intro by adding a title.
For this demo, we’ll have three lines of text
and stagger then on screen,
so once you adjust the appearance of your title,
make two more copies of it,
adjust the text and position,
and stagger these title clips about 10 frames apart.
For the out animation, we want the text to go with the logo,
and since adjustment layers affect every clip under them,
all we have to do is add an animation preset
as the top layer at the end.
And last, to add a bit of motion to the entire thing,
select a through animation,
place it as your top layer,
and ripple trim it to the same length as your clips.
This is what we have.
But look what happens when we re-enable our bottom layer.
All the adjustment layers we added to the logo
and text layers also affect our generator clip.
To fix this, select your logo and text clips,
and all the adjustment layers applied to them,
and combine them into a compound clip by pressing Option G.
Here’s our finished result,
all done without using a single key frame.
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for 30 % off your purchase, limited to the first 500 users.
Thanks for watching,
and I’ll see you back here next week.