in this video i'm going to share with you what feels like a secret set of plugins
that i use very often and they allow me to get animations like this very easily and quickly
and they're just giving them away
i'm rafael and welcome to the channel where our goal is to always fix it in camera and then
finesse it in post and if you work with final cut you know that some of the simplest animations are
sometimes harder to achieve than they should be and when you're working fast the last thing that
you want to be doing is key framing in final cut which is a nightmare or you have to spend money
to buy plugins which are great but they do add up over time and a while back i stumbled upon tapsa's
youtube channel and his awesome plugins for final cut pro that he is generously giving away to the
final cut community in total there are seven plugins that do things that are actually hard in
final cut pro let's go over all of them so there are three title animations and there are four
effects and once you install them make sure you follow the instructions on how to install
them make your own folder in your motion effects template i think you install them into movies into
your motion templates create a folder for tapsaw in your effects and then in your titles as well
make sure you create a tab sub folder and just put the title the text effects in there and you
put the effects into your effects folder in your motion templates then restart final cut and you
are good to go so once they're installed you'll find them in your titles and you'll have three
title effects you're gonna have four effects so let's go through them kind of one by one
let's start with the effects because these are awesome just right out of the gate so we're gonna
play with this title right here and this is just a standard custom title right in final cut
and this will work with with any titles that you have so we're just going to take this effect we're
going to drop it right onto the text and right out of the gate we already have an animation as
in your video inspector you're going to find the quick in out animator and you have all
these animations that you can choose from scale in scale x in scale y in i typically do zoom from in
and it gives you that animation
but if you want to be quicker you can adjust the in time
so it can pop in it's almost like a
pop it's probably a bit too fast let's make it 0.2 seconds go back to the beginning
bam
you can also add motion blur or take it away depending on what your
depending on what your what you want and you'll also allowed you can also change
where the center point is so right now it's right in the center of the animation
but if you move your animation you can just grab the center point and move it
down to wherever you want your text and then they can animate out as well let's do that
i was never able to achieve this similar effect in final cut where it was so smooth as it is here
and so as you can see they have a different animation out so you just want to make
sure that you have because right now it's float out to right you can have
blur out you can change all three to the same ones so they all match
and they're all going to blur out bam look at that but it also works with uh still images
so this is a still image and you just grab it and an animation will happen right off the bat
and it retains the alpha image as well
so it doesn't create a weird adjustment layer it just allows you to animate these on
and then animate them off and it doesn't
there's no keyframes you need to add it just it'll happen at the end of so i'm going to do zoom out
decimal model that's tesla model x but and then we're going to do a zoom up bam look at that and
then that's it so that one plug-in that one plug-in alone is doing so much of the heavy
lifting when you need to do different kinds of animations and it doesn't matter if you change
the scale or the position of the image so i'm going to scale it up and i'm going to move it over
it'll just keep working it'll treat it on its own and if you change the duration and
they're really fast so if you need to do certain things and different animations
this one plug-in alone can give you so much variety let's take a look at the the next
plugin this is the quick in and out bouncer that overshoot so it's flying down from top let's do
zoom in from just simple and clean boom overshoot we also have bounce back boom
you can also adjust the amount of movement if you want it even more
bam again you can speed up the entire process and it has the ins and outs already built in so it's
it feels like a motion vfx plug-in but it's not and it's free and it's amazing
again you have float in from right fly from top you have different so many different variations
so let's fly from top let's see bam it's just no matter what the style you want okay let's do the
revealer because this one this one allows you to do very specific things so initially it gives you
a setup mode so if you look over here you have the setup mode you have the width and the height
you take it and then you just make sure that the reveal area is what you want it to be so
i'm just gonna squeeze the make sure it just fit in properly and that's the reveal area then once
you turn it off let's go back to the beginning play it and so it's revealing from the top
flip from top so boop like so many things that would be near impossible to do in final cut i
know you can do a motion and these are all brought in from motion but they're
just built in here and he is like literally just giving these away these are fantastic so
so we're gonna do a zoom in same thing it just once you choose one of them
okay so let's do wipe from top wipe from bottom
it's fantastic and then behind from bottom it lifts it up so once you build a style for your
work for your show you just you literally just copy and paste
this onto other effects or you just create your own preset and then just apply it this works
on images as well so i'm just gonna bring in this image make sure i get rid of the
i'm gonna move this over here scale it back down i'm just gonna add the revealer to
this image so we have our effect area so make sure it encompasses the entire image
and then we're gonna go and make sure we get the whole thing and i'm going to
behind from bottom so just make sure you turn off the setup mode
and play boom and we're in and you can adjust the speed you can add motion blur
you can do this multiple times so the different multiple images depending on the kind of effect
that you're going for and what your edit needs so this one's pretty cool this one is the zoom
zoom highlight so you can just take it and adjust it i'm gonna make it
this can not the computer screen i'm going to make it just this one portion over here
and again turn off setup mode and then once it animates
and you can move it to wherever you want it to be
just so you're focusing where you want to focus
and it allow you to change the border with nice little animation on this the stroke
that goes around it boop you can change it from circle to rectangle or from rectangle to circle
depending on what you want you can change the roundness or if you're in a circle you can
make it a squirkle if you wanted to change the color of the highlighted area get it to your
branding again such a simple such a simple tool that allows you to do so many different things so
that's those four effects let's look at the text effects so the text effects by themselves so the
text effects you just drag them on to the timeline you can change the the font style
and they're all built into the text effect so here i just changed in the reveal
you can change the font you can change the text size you can change the color
and you have all these effects that you can use so i'm going to do cursor from left
let's see what that gives us and like so like just so simple and so awesome
so and there you go for free for free how can you do better than that so modern from left
come on it's so sweet let's do behind from top boom and this is just text effect so you don't
need to use the effects to do the reveals this is all built into this text effect and you can change
the spacing you can do we can do split horizontal let's see what that gives us come on it's okay
like put it in let's see that boom
so that's one let's do the multi-line effect let's see what this gives us
so right off the bat it's not doing anything and this allows you to do a cutout so i'm going
to change the font to my favorite bold scale it up and then we can do a reveal
and what we're going to do
make sure that this fits in the entire thing behind from wipe from left turn off setup mode
and if you ever notice these kind of things it just means that you need to expand you need
to expand the width or the height to make sure it's encompassing everything let me just go back
boom supercar reveal and if we don't want the motion blur we can just turn it all
the way off so it gives us a nice boom and that's with the knockout
get rid of the stencil text as you can see a little bit better boom
again like just again it's just so simple and once you find your
style once you find the look and the colors you can just reuse a lot of this
now another another the last text effect is the auto size of the background so this allows you to
make it if you have big text blocks make it as big as you need the size of the paragraph
and again it's just it's going to follow the same rules
it's going to follow the same rules as all text is so if you change the font
and change the size it will all work out so you can go back and just make sure that
the opacity and the background and change the roundness to work how you want you can make it
fully opaque and no matter where you move the text you can also stencil the text here as well
so we'll just do a knockout so if you made that full black and you can move that border to be all
sides top side bottom side again just a simple use of this effect and it's all dependent on the size
of the text so if you have a lot of these that are throughout your show just change your attack
just change the text and move on and you can combine this with animations like bouncing it in
and it just you can reveal do the bouncing you can do the quick animations
this tool set of seven effects and titles is a fantastic thing to have for free in your toolkit
in final cut pro for you to use and the best part is they are free and there is no sign
up needed for anything so make sure you go and download taps's plugins before he changes his mind
and don't forget to say thanks he also has a donate link if that's how you want to thank him
if you think these plugins are awesome make sure you check out this free awesome plugin
for motion vfx and camera give this video a thumbs up also i live stream on my second channel where
i deep dive on the creative process as well as freelance financials as always thanks for watching