Apple Motion: A simple but clean FCP X Title

[@SYPCWAK]

Thanks again, Simon, for another great Motion tutorial!

[@CDTSimon]

Almost everything i know about final cut and motion I learned just by trying stuff out and teaching myself... and everytime i watch one of your videos I am amazed about all the things I don't know, especially about motion. Thanks so much for these great tutorials!

[@SimonUbsdell]

As it happens, almost everything I know about Final Cut and Motion I learned just by trying stuff out and teaching myself ... and reading the manuals. Trying stuff out is absolutely the best way of learning, I think. And it's also the best way of coming up with original ideas, so it's a double bonus!

[@CDTSimon]

Simon Ubsdell I've been working with final cut for a few years now so I guess I'm pretty good at it, but I only got into motion a little while ago so I guess you've got a head start there :D But yeah, learning by doing is almost always the best way of learning!

[@EnergeticWaves]

motion is orders of magnitude harder than fcpx!

[@CDTSimon]

EnergeticWaves That's what I've noticed too when I first started using it!

[@SimonUbsdell]

I think it's more true to say that motion graphics and compositing are processes that are quite bit more complex than editing - After Effects is a lot harder than Premiere too. Once you've mastered an editing application, there's really not a lot left to learn apart from the creative subtleties, whereas mastering an application like Motion means learning a lot of background technical theory along with which buttons to press. And more importantly, each project can involve thinking up a new strategy ... But hey, that's why it's such an interesting subject.

[@hw8621]

Thanks Simon! I didn't know that Motion has all that power underneath the bonnet! To think all we needed was a fantastic teacher like you.

[@Kawaiiization]

The only source on Motion tuts on KZbin that amazes me with every video!

[@RickyCheung]

OMG This tutorial is golden. For such a simply clean intro this is it. Thank you sooooo much for taking the time to make this. You should have way more subs with tutorials like this.

[@忘黎丶殇人]

I am your fan from China. You may not know that there are no bloggers on Chinese video websites who praise you for the high quality of your videos. They praise you in Chinese as YYDS (Eternal God).

[@tjorgensen2007]

Simon you are the best I enjoy all your videos tutorials and I just want to say thank you for sharing your talents with us

[@Rockysvideostation]

No need to tell you, again and again, Simon you are great! You never cease to amaze me! Thank you!

[@Unders]

This was fantastically useful thanks Simon. Have you ever considered making a course for the likes of Udemy on Motion?

[@JohnWelton]

Hi Simon, once again, a fantastic video - thanks so much for continuing to educate me and all the other followers :)

[@JollyRogered]

Aaargh! I went through this four times before I spotted the workaround for the colour linking bug! Note to self - read down through the comments next time. Still, repeating a good tutorial a few times is never a bad thing, and hopefully I've learned some useful tricks that will stick. Great tutorial, as always.

[@SimonUbsdell]

Sorry about that. I'll add a note in the video itself directing users to the follow-up and warning about the bug.

[@jmotionworks6041]

Wow, i didn't knew about the build in/out mandatory marker function.

[@hitmusicplant]

very useful tutorial ,thanks!

[@BillyPalmerMusic]

So I tried this, had it working then, suddenly something seemed to break - also checked out the follow up but could not fix. THAT DOESN'T MATTER because I learnt some nice stuff about Motion. Thanks for a relaxing tutorial.

[@SimonUbsdell]

Thank you. The simplest fix is to remove the color linking process altogether because it is subject to a known Apple bug - and loads of people ran into the problem you did. Instead all you need to do is to apply a Colorize filter to the master group and use that to set the overall colour.

[@SuperYoungMind]

Great Tutorial (I had to do it two times) :)

[@simomonster]

this is amazing

[@olghinavideo]

i tried 5 times and it wasn't working and then EVENTUALLY I read about the bug . Lesson learned: always read FIRST! lol. Great tut btw! I really love this kind of titles :)

[@danielronsoistudio1248]

thanks for sharing video

[@TheLove99999]

The last frame is 72?? Mines 179 frames for 3 seconds???

[@Fabio-rg9nv]

He chose 24fps for the project. 24 frames in 3 seconds are 72 frames. So I guess you chose 59.94fps (= 179.82 frames in 3 seconds).

[@AllTerrainFamily]

Strange issue: I follow along and everything is awesome. When I try to put the Box and Text groups into the ALL group the IMAGE MASK on the color solid looses it's source (Clone Layer) and won't let me add it back. Does that sound like a bug or am I screwing something up?

[@SimonUbsdell]

No, there's an a bug here somewhere. Please have a look at the follow-up tutorial for a solution to this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmaUia17j9mLq6M

[@AllTerrainFamily]

Correction: It's when I add the link behavior to the Text Layer. That kills the image mask on the color solid. Strange. I think I'll just publish the color of the box and text separately. Thanks for all your Tutorials. They are VERY HELPFUL!

[@AllTerrainFamily]

Gotcha. Thanks! Is it possible to publish the start/end positions of the animated mask? I've modified the project from your tutorial to be adjustable in size and width, but unless I can add the start/end position it's limited to how wide it can be...

[@SimonUbsdell]

Have a look at the follow-up tutorial which shows you how to animate without keyframes and should give you an idea of how to do this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmaUia17j9mLq6M If you need any more help, please feel free to email me.

[@AllTerrainFamily]

Thanks again! I used this effect, with an additional overlay on the moving mask in my latest video.

[@blacklabelminiatures]

I have a question about Titles and iMovie. I have tried making one of these titles and exporting it. But it does not seem to function proper in iMovie. Is it not possible to do these in that? Or am I maybe just goofing it up?

[@SimonUbsdell]

This won't work with iMovie, only FCP X.

[@TomAinsworth94]

Every time I drag the groups “text” and “box” into the “all” group towards the end, the animated mask stops showing up. It is working and the text opened and closes on the x axis, but the coloured box that goes with it doesn’t show, the opacity is still at 100 but I’ve no clue how to fix it

[@SimonUbsdell]

Please have a quick look at the follow-up tutorial which I think possibly answers your question: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmaUia17j9mLq6M

[@toddlask]

awesome!

[@skyvizproductions]

Thank you for another great tutorial - have learned a huge amount following these. On this one, however, I have come across a problem - all is working fine but when linking text colour to colour solid and publishing, the animated box disappears! It appears that saving the project removes the text as the source of the top image mask. I can reinstate the effect by removing the colour link. My workaround was to publish the text and box colours separately, which is fine as it gives a bit more flexibility when using the title in Final Cut. Wondered if you had any views on why that issue cropped up? (If you have the time!!)

[@SimonUbsdell]

I haven't been working with 5.3 for long and I ran into some very serious issues when trying out versions of this project. I didn't encounter the specific problem you have done, but I did have two others which I have certainly never seen before and I have been using Motion 5 from its launch. I suspect that something has been broken in 5.3 but I haven't yet been able to pin it down. I'll have another look and see if I can find any clues. Meanwhile do report any suspicious activity to Apple!

[@TheBBBjr]

Hi, I have the same problem with the animated box, disappears when saving to fcpx

[@SimonUbsdell]

Make sure you post a bug report. Apple need to know about this stuff. They've made a mess of 5.3, of that there is no doubt.

[@shivamgaurGaming]

yeah same problem with me as well and im using the latest version of motion i.e. 5.3.1

[@SimonUbsdell]

Please could you check out the new method for this and tell us if it works for you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmaUia17j9mLq6M. Thanks. There is clearly a bug here somewhere.

[@marcapparatus]

so goood. thankyou thankyou thankyou

[@DvidFilms]

I love your tutorials but it does not work with my motion 5.2.3 I have not upgraded yet because of current of my current projects I am still working on. I am following you on this tutorial but it does not work. Very frustrated I could use something like this.

[@SimonUbsdell]

Please look at the follow-up tutorial. There is a very annoying Apple bug that you need to be aware of. You should be fine working with this project in 5.2 if you follow the instructions there: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmaUia17j9mLq6M

[@supertorqued72]

Great tutorial, when I added the title to my Final Cut Pro project the moving white box doesn't appear. The text appears and "wipes" on and off the the screen as expected, however no white box. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks

[@LaurenceHall]

I've got the same issue, did you manage to resolve this issue?

[@SimonUbsdell]

@@LaurenceHall Make sure you watch the second part of this tutorial linked to in the comments. That may solve your problem. If not, please email me your project file and I'll be happy to take a look.

[@LaurenceHall]

@@SimonUbsdell I did that too but still no luck. Great I'll email the project over thanks :D

[@LaurenceHall]

@@SimonUbsdell I did the second part too but still no luck. Sorry I should've made that clear in the first comment. Thanks I'll email over the file later.

[@SimonUbsdell]

@@LaurenceHall Thanks. You can reach me at: [e-mail]

[@phoward111]

I have tried this 4 times now in motion 5.4.2 and each time the colour linking only changes the top line of the text. But the biggest problem is that when I publish it I lose the animated block. It completely disappears. Very frustrating. Has anybody else had this issue?

[@SimonUbsdell]

Please watch the follow-up tutorial referred to in the comments - this is a known bug. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmaUia17j9mLq6M

[@rdavis0521]

Had a question. Tutorial worked fine for me, except one thing. When the title is brought in FCP the background image is there. I noticed that in your FCP segment the title laid over the main FCP video. I can cause it to work by making the background image invisible when saving in Motion. But then the FCP preview has no background. What did I miss? Thanks. Love your tutorials.

[@SimonUbsdell]

Your Title Background layer should be empty (shwoing a downwards facing arrow on a grey background) - if it's not clear, then go to the Inspector/Image and hit the Clear button. This will clear any temporary image you might have loaded into this layer. If this is not the answer, please email me your Motion project to: [e-mail]

[@rdavis0521]

Wow. Getting a response from the author is awesome, but an offer to look at my project. Amazing. Thank you. I will send you the project file. I did double check (and clear) the title background layer as you described. But, my temporary background was not "IN" the title background, but I believe it's a layer above it, as per your demo above. See around 9:50. In Group1 you have a background image (KaramaBeach) above the title background. As you enter into FCP in this video (around 11:30) I see that the title background in the preview in the inspector is not Karama Beach, but some other background. And when you place it into your FCP project, the background is transparent.

[@SimonUbsdell]

@@rdavis0521 Ah, thanks for clarifying. I'd forgotten I'd done that. So in that case simply delete that layer from your project and you should en fine. If not, please do let me have a look at your project.

[@rdavis0521]

Oops. In looking at the FCP part of the demo more closely, (around 11:30), I see that there are actually two title files there. One is BoxTextReveal (which is in the FCP timeline), and then CleanTextReveal (with KaramaBeach background). Still same issue, however. My background image from the Motion file is visible when dropped into my FCP timeline above main video.

[@rdavis0521]

Thank you. Glad I'm not crazy. But, still confused that your titles in the FCP title sidebar do show a background. When I delete that layer, I have a black preview (until I skim to where text becomes visible).

[@mariusraupach4915]

Hey, I did this tutorial twice step by step. Now my problem, every time I save the project to use the title into Final Cut, the Animated Mask disappears. I see only the text without the Animated Mask. Any ideas to solve this problem?

[@SimonUbsdell]

Make sure you watch the second part of this tutorial linked to in the comments. That may solve your problem. If not, please email me your project file and I'll be happy to take a look.

[@hugoslavinski1856]

Doesn't work for me... Loll I miss a step and don't know which one.

[@vincedubre2250]

Can't find size option when trying to resize boxes on 5.1.1 motion?

[@SimonUbsdell]

I'm afraid that's because Motion 5.1 doesn't have this feature.

[@vincedubre2250]

Found a way to resize. What save settings are used and how do you import into Final Cut Pro? (i'm a Beginner)

[@abhinayyou]

How to do this in Motion 5.1.2? I don't have the option to add a color solid. Will an image generator do?

[@SimonUbsdell]

You do have the exact same option in 5.1.2 but you need to access it from a different place. Go to Library/Generators/Image Generators/Color Solid. And then go and complain to Apple for pointlessly changing the interface!

[@abhinayyou]

I dont have image generator option Under Generators. what now?

[@SimonUbsdell]

Have a look at the manual here where it explains the basics of Generators: help.apple.com/motion/mac/5.0/en/motion/usermanual/#chapter=18%26section=1

[@daeilkim7183]

I did export the motion to my final cut pro. However, it only shows me an error sign with 'T', just like when a video file is missing... Is this because I am not using official purchased final cut pro? Please help me, sir... Thank you.

[@SimonUbsdell]

I am not sure what's happening there but if you would like to email me your project then I'd be happy to take a look.

[@thegreatlifeofjake]

I am having that same issue! Except I actually did purchase all my software. How did you resolve it? Please help!

[@BenjaminGib]

Thank you so much, Simon. Really enjoyed this one. I wonder if it's that hard to make the Build in and Outs not mandatory, meaning, will it cause crazy- undesirable results when the Title is lengthened or shortened in FCPX? Thanks again.

[@SimonUbsdell]

The only reason for making them Mandatory is to ensure that the duration of the animation stays fixed regardless of how long you make the title in FCP X. If you're not that bothered about that, then you can make them optional or leave them out altogether. I would say that the method suggested in the follow-up tutorial is the better way to go, however.

[@BenjaminGib]

Simon Ubsdell - Most definitely. I was just wondering is it that hard to make the build in and outs actually adjustable in FCPX, because I'm sure I would want that flexibility and option while I'm in FCPX.

[@SimonUbsdell]

No, I'm afraid you can' make them adjustable in FCP X. But I do think that the method I recommend in the follow-up tutorial gives you all the flexibility you could need, since it allows full control over the timing which means you don't really have to worry about the limits of Build In/Out .. unless you were wanting the incoming or outgoing animation to last for longer than half the title duration, which would be pretty strange in this instance.

[@BenjaminGib]

Great, thanks Simon.

[@Alex4DGollner]

Funky - especially the link behaviour

[@SimonUbsdell]

Hi Alex, Any ideas why some users are having issues with the colour linking? A better plan would have been to link the Color Solid to the Text Face Color, but that's all messed up in 5.3 ... I haven't been using 5.3 for very long at all, but it's all feeling a bit flaky to me. Has it been alright for you?

[@Alex4DGollner]

Motion has been OK - a few new bugs, but worth it. Think the way they've done text style runs in text has changed and not fully debugged. To avoid all that, the "All" group could be colourised with the 'Colorize' filter (linking 'Remap Black' to 'Remap White' and publishing 'Remap White')

[@SimonUbsdell]

Yes, that would be one way of doing it. I was actually thinking of using the Clone text as an additional matte for the Color Solid which would have been the most elegant way of doing it though. I was planning on a more elaborate version of this but ran into some very odd issues that I haven't seen before so I'm not convinced that all is well in 5.3-Land.

[@Alex4DGollner]

I imagine that you can planned to add an Align To behaviour to make the shape centre match that of the text. Not generally well known are a few new options in the Link parameter behaviour. As you have probably already discovered you can now link the Rectangle.Object.Shape.Size.All to the extent of the type in the text box which is Text Box.Object Attributes.Size.All Motion sticklers would also require that you replace keyframe animation with behaviours!

[@SimonUbsdell]

Yes, all good points. It's a shame one can't link the Start/End of a Ramp behavior to anything otherwise one could have a fully automated version of this! Better still is if Apple would just listen to me and add expressions - there's a really simple way of doing it. Not going to happen, but we can dream.

[@wesleyphung738]

genius !!

[@rodolfoelgert1102]

Grate, Thanks..

[@jafferg3469]

Hey great vid but I would like if you did more Fusion 8 tutorials

[@SimonUbsdell]

Yes, I do plan to do more tutorials for Fusion - was there something in particular that you were interested in?

[@jafferg3469]

Simon Ubsdell Could you do a video on making a 2d image into a 3d background for a video?

[@AzovPort]

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[@barnabycampbell8764]

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