Today we're going to look at how to modify an existing lower thirds title in Final Cut
Pro X using Motion.
So here in Final Cut Pro X, in the Titles browser, in the Lower Thirds category, we
have something called Snap - Left.
I've applied it to this video clip right here and it's a cool title but it has a few limitations.
If we look in the Title Inspector, we can turn off the incoming animation but there
is no outgoing animation.
An addition, there's no way to change the color of this background.
Let's make some modifications in Motion.
I'll write click on it and choose: Open a copy in Motion.
In Motion, I'll locate the background, here it is right here I can tell by turning it
off and on.
I'll go the Inspector
and here's the Fill Color.
I see that is has a keyframe assigned so I'm going to click the reset arrow
to clear that out.
Then I'll set a new Default Color.
Right click on Fill Color
and choose Publish.
Now this Fill Color will be available in Final Cut Pro X.
Let's also make the Text Color available in Final Cut Pro X.
It's always available in the Text Inspector but this way it will be available in the Title
Inspector as well.
I'll publish the name Text Color.
And I'll publish the Description text color.
If I now select the project, and go to the Publishing tab of the project inspector
we see those three parameters we published.
Let's change the names.
I'll call this Background.
I'll call this First Line.
And I'll call this Second Line.
Let's also add a drop zone so we can add a logo to this lower third.
I'll move this playhead to right till this animation is done, then from the Object menu,
I'll choose New Drop Zone.
In the Properties Inspector, I'll reset it, scale it down
and position it over the lower third.
I'm leaving it a little bit large on purpose, we'll see why in just a second.
Now I want this to animate on the screen, so what I'll do is set a keyframe for position,
move a playhead back in time,
press "i" to trim it to the playhead position
and then drag down in the Y value field.
If we now play the project
that drop zone animates on with everything else.
Finally, let's make everything fade out in the end.
I'll close these groups, select them both,
then from the Object menu choose Group.
Then from the Behaviors short cut menu, I'll choose Basic Motion.
Fade In/Fade Out.
And turn off the Fade In, so that now after the opening animation
everything fades out at the end.
I'll move to right before the fade out, press shift+"m" for a project marker.
Open it.
And set it's type to Build Out - Optional and click OK.
That way, when we look at the list of Published Parameters, we now see an option to both animate
it on and animate it off.
Finally, let's make this drop zone optional incase you don't want to use it.
I'll go back in and select the Drop Zone, go to the Properties Inspector, Enforce Opacity,
I'm going to right click, and choose Add To Rig, Create New Rig, Add to New check box.
I'll rename this check box to Use Drop Zone and then in the Widget Inspector, I'll drag
the Opacity slider to zero, so that it's invisible when Use Drop Zone is unchecked
and then when I check it, it becomes visible.
I'll right click on Use Drop Zone and choose Publish.
Go back to the project,
to the Project Inspector, and there's our new check box to use
the drop zone.
I'll move it above the drop zone, command click to deselect everything, and save.
Now I'll switch back to Final Cut Pro and we see our Snap Left copy is now in the Title
Inspector.
I'll drag it over the existing copy, and choose Replace from Start.
Our name is still there from before.
In the Inspector we now have the options to turn the Opening and Closing Animations on
and off.
We can change the Background Color.
I'll take a sample from the shot here.
I'll change the text color
and for the Drop Zone
, I'll use this logo here.
I'll click Apply Clip and now if I double click in the viewer you'll see why I made
a large drop zone area so I have plenty of room to scale and reposition any graphic that
I put in that drop zone.
So you can see how quick and easy it is to modify an existing template in Final Cut Pro
X using Motion.
To learn more about how to do to this you might want to check out our Warp Speed Motion
tutorial, available now.