Play around with the controls, if by the end of the transition, the second clip hasn’t completely come through you can increase the ‘Scale’ value. When in Random Arrangement mode, The ‘Columns and Rows sliders have zero effect.

You can change the ‘Arrangement’ to Random then use the ‘Replicate Seed’ to randomly change the starting placement of the logos. This ONLY has an effect when the ‘Arrangement’ is on the default ’Tile Fill’ ‘Scale Randomness’ increases or decreases random scale on the drop zone containerĬolumns, Rows are the number of times the logo is repeated. ’Scale’ controls the size of the drop zone container. Depending on the size and resolution of your original, adjust until you can see all of your logo. The first two sliders control the size of the logo inside the drop zone container. Make sure you click the ‘Apply Clip’ button before moving on. Click on the Drop Zone and choose a logo you’ve already imported, this should be a. Now, inside FCPX when you go to the Transitions browser you should see whatever you renamed the folder to and when you click on that, you’ll see ‘Logo Transitionĭrag and drop the transition between two clips. You can change the name of ‘Phill’s Transitions’ to whatever you want, free transitions or drop it into an existing collection. I wanted to be able to use a logo as an image mask in a transition between two clips, obviously have the ability to change the logo, and some control over the size and positioning.ĭownload the transition here Unzip the folder and file the ‘Phill’s Transitions’ folder and its contents to Users/*your home folder*/Movies/Motion Templates/Transitions I decided to look at Motion again, followed a couple of tutorials on YouTube then decided to see if I could build a transition. You don’t need Motion to use stuff that other people have created, you just have to file it in the right folder inside the default ‘Motion’ folder that your installation of FCPX will have created. There’s also completely free resources like FCPXFree that’s another thing about FCPX, there seems to be a much bigger community creating free stuff because of the nature of FCPX, that it’s easy to share. You can purchase prebuilt editable effects from places like Pixel Film Studios most are around $30 each, and all of those will have been built using Motion. and all without having to render out any clips. Text will be fully editable, you change typefaces on the fly and make changes to scale, position, colour etc. You can create custom Transitions, Titles and Generators which, when saved are instantly available in your FCPX project. The biggest benefit to using Motion is the ability to create your own effects. Not only did I not understand anything I saw in the interface but I just didn’t grasp what it was really for. I opened Motion years ago, took one look at the confusing mess and never opened it again. I say alternative carefully as it’s nothing like AE.

This can be a problem as you have to render out what you’ve created in AE then import back to FCPX and if anything changes, you have to do it all over again.Īpple have their own ‘alternative’ to AE called Motion.

However, like many people I find myself having to go into After Effects to accomplish certain things that I think are either not possible to do in FCPX or would take too long. The ability to quickly apply colour adjustments, effects, generators and titles on the fly and have them update before your eyes. One of the many things I love about FCPX compared to Adobe Premier is the real time engine. In my opinion, FCPX is far superior to it’s most popular rival Adobe Premier.Īs a full Creative Cloud subscriber, I have access to Adobe Premier, but I prefer to edit in FCPX. I’ve used Final Cut from version 4 through to the last ‘Pro’ version 7 and into the hated by many FCPX. Final Cut Pro X is my non-linear editor of choice.

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