Final Cut Pro X Essentials - Titles and Graphics Video Lecture | Final Cut Pro Essentials: A Complete Guide - Video & Sound Editing

up to this point we've gone over how to
navigate the Final Cut Pro 10
environment how to work in the timeline
tools and editing types how to apply
effects choose and create presets and
all about transitions in this lesson
we're going to go over how to work with
titles and graphics we'll go in deep
creating custom titles lower thirds and
3d text let's take a look before you get
started a really important aspect of
creating any title and graphic is making
sure that your viewer sees them and part
of that is making sure that your
graphics are within their viewable area
of their device no matter it be a phone
a computer monitor a television set what
have you the best way to do that is
through having title and action safe on
and its really simple to turn on within
Final Cut you just go up to the viewer
here and you go up to view and he turn
show title action safe zones and now it
gives you the viewable area of what your
title and action safe are what this will
do is make sure that your titles don't
go outside the viewing area of your
viewers device so the very first line
from the outside-in is your action safe
and the second line the one most closest
to the middle is the title safe and you
want to make sure that whatever graphic
you're creating is within that title
safe that will ensure that whatever
graphic whatever communication you're
putting in your graphic makes it to your
end viewer so with that said let's make
sure that we are professional in
creating graphics and that we step up to
the plate and make sure that your viewer
sees your graphics with that said let's
show you the simplest way the fastest
way the way you ought to use to create
your titles and or graphics right off
the bat what you want to do is find out
where you want your title or graphic to
go or your lower third or whatever
you're making you what you want to do is
you want to mark your in and out points
your place where you want these graphics
to be and it's just like before when
we're trimming our Clips but now we're
in the timeline and we're using the I
key for in and the O key for out so what
I'm going to do
I'm going to come to the stand up here
and I'm going to show just what it looks
like to mark those points in and then as
well how to apply a title or graphic so
I'm going to mark I for in and then I'm
going to go down here and I'm going to
go about there's my out just arbitrarily
picking some time you'll probably have a
reason for it
let's first open up now our title
browser so we're going to go over where
all of our other browsers are and I'm
going to choose T which is the text
browser and I'm going to choose the T
which is the title browser now right now
it's on all you have 3d 3d cinematic
build in and out bumper open or credits
elements and lower thirds and these are
all presets that are already ready for
you so all you have to do is change the
text that you want to change and you'll
have professional-looking graphics right
off the bat however most of us want to
make our own custom titles we want them
to be unique to our product that we're
creating and so what we're going to do
is we're going to go straight for
grabbing just a custom title nice enough
I can come down here and I can just
search custom and here it is just custom
title and if I I can drag and drop it in
here and there it is but what we're
going to do is we're going to use those
in out points that we made so again I
for in Oh for out and if I come over
here to this custom title I can press
the Q key and it'll just apply right
over my in and out points now I have it
applied right where I want but now I
need to customize it because all it says
this title it's not in the right
location or anything so you can see all
of the controls for your title are
actually in the inspector up here right
off the bat here is the text so I'm
going to write Final Cut Pro and I can
change the font to just about whatever
I'd like to hope Oh standard impact
let's go back up to Helvetica because I
like it a lot Helvetica new and we can
change its size here we can change its
alignment left or right if it's above or
below whatever lines but we don't have
multiple lines so that's not affecting
anything here and I can go into advanced
and I can change the line spacing which
I only have one line
here I can change the tracking which is
the space between letters and I can
change the baseline which is just if
it's above or below the baseline that's
here and I can turn it on all caps if
I'd like I'm not going to do that so
that's just your simple text here and if
I go out and I just click on my text I
can bring it and I can put it wherever
I'd like so that you can see it here but
see that's outside of the title safe so
maybe I'm going to make it a little bit
smaller and there it is I like that it
looks fine that's there so it says Final
Cut Pro that's very neat but what if I
want to make that a 3d text and I want
it to just have more depth I want it to
sit into the scene and I want to make it
seem like it's just hovering there over
the shoulder so what I can do is easy
enough right in the inspector is just
choose and turn on 3d text so now it's
in 3d space but the other thing is is
that it now has depth and so I can
actually make it thicker or have more
depth so I can go down here and I can
change the depth so I can make it really
thick 3d text which starts to become
kind of hard to read I can change the
weight so I can make them nice and fat
if I'd like to I can round the edges or
what have you I can change the corner
type the back edge type I can do lots
and lots of different things and it also
opens up now my lighting and materials
options and the lighting I can turn it
down if I want I can turn it up so it's
all nice stark white I can give it its
so it has its own shadows which you
don't see very well in here but in this
scene and I could turn that on and now
environment so what this is is that it
only has one material now but I can come
here and I can choose all sorts of
different types of materials sorry
they're off the screen there for you but
I promise you they're there I'm going to
choose red brick and that looks weird so
what I want to do is I want to change
that again and I'm going to go to let's
do some metal so it has a little bit of
reflection on it when that doesn't look
super great either
let's try Chrome there we go now let's
adjust this stuff a little bit and if I
go to material I can actually choose
multiple now it's going to give me all
sorts of options so now I can change the
edge material the side material the back
edge material and change it to all sorts
of different things and every single one
of them could be different so if I want
the front edge to be red and in that it
doesn't look very good but I could
definitely change it back to basic if I
want change it back to metal and chrome
lots of options there and then as well I
can come down here and change the
different like metals that it's made out
of or its shininess so you can see that
they kind of glistens a little bit I can
change its thickness and what-have-you
and so I can make lots and lots of
different 3d texts that look all sorts
of different let's let's just take this
example let's do the side I'm going to
change this to a nickel edge and there
it is starting to have a little more
depth I'm going to change this to nickel
as well and see how that looks and it's
starting to look a little bit better but
still not all that great so what if I
didn't like my custom title I made and
maybe I wanted to start with a preset
easy enough I can go over here to my
title browser choose 3d and I'm still
have my search options on and now it has
all sorts of options here from fading
into custom and the same thing with all
of our different browser windows is that
it actually will show you the animation
that's happening so here it's just it's
a graphic that zooms in and zooms out
and you can see there are some depth to
that text now that's very cool
you now have all the control that you'd
like for all of the different 3d options
but what if I want to go back and turn
off 3d text and not be there well I can
I can just unclick it and there it is
now what if I wanted to then instead of
having a 3d text I wanted to give it an
outline well I can do that just as easy
as clicking one button and going outline
and now it's got a little outline now I
want that to be black and choose black
and there it is it pops out a little bit
from that chair in the background and I
can get a thicker stroke if I'd like or
what-have-you but that doesn't look all
that great let's try something else so
let's turn on a glow and a glow is just
like a drop shadow which I'll show you
in a second but it's all around it's not
directional so if I choose white and I
want the radius to be out there it's now
starting to make the edge real fuzzy and
maybe that's what you want to do but in
this case it doesn't look good
so last case is drop shadow and you can
see right off the bat when I turn that
on and off that there becomes a drop
shadow so let's look at all the options
that are within here and if I change the
distance you'll really be able to see it
and if I change the distance and I
change the opacity here and I blur it
out a little bit now it's really kind of
setting itself away so if I just come up
here you can see that it stands out and
looks pretty good
one last thing about 3d text is if you
would like to move your 3d text around
show its third dimension you will need
to control the XY and z space as well as
XY and z rotation so what is XY and z
space now if I click on my title here
and I come up to the title you see I
have a green arrow a red arrow and this
it looks like a blue circle but it's
actually the tip of an arrow and then
other controls are the little circles
here and they control the rotation
within 3d space
so let's jump into which each does this
first one the green one if you click and
hold you actually can move it within
vertical space which is your Y space if
you click on the red and hold it you can
move it side to side which is your Y
space and you can see as I move these
the third dimension actually changes so
if you see the perspective now on final
the 3d text is far more pronounced than
on Pro and as I move it over it changes
that so that's all perspective third
dimension and then lastly we have the
blue dot and the blue dot like I said is
just the end of an arrow so if I click
on it and move it left and right it
actually is going to bring the graphic
further and closer to you and it's going
to change that perspective as well it's
not just scaling it now let's cover the
3d space rotation so that's what these
three circles do here and as you can see
as you hover over them they show
different controls
so this far-right one here if I click on
that and I rotate it it's going to go in
a circle here and that's in a thin 3d
space now I'm going to undo that if I go
to the far left one I can click on it
and it's going to rotate it around like
that and that's pretty neat
and then lastly you have the one on the
top which is going to rotate it around
vertically so there you have it that's
3d text control rotation and XY and z
space now what if we wanted to instead
of just making a graphic we wanted to
make a lower third of some sort we
wanted to identify this guy on the
screen which happens to be myself and we
want to give him a name and a title so
I'm going to get rid of my custom
graphic here and I'm going to delete it
so I'm going to go to lower thirds and
there's a whole bunch of already lower
thirds that are here so you can see
there there's one but that's kind of
outside of the title safe I don't know
if that's good and here's another one
same thing and here's one that's you
know maybe it'll work good so let's try
this we're going to mark its endpoint
and point an out point I'm going to come
over here to formal and I'm going to
press the Q key and it just applies it
there so there I have it name and
description so then if I click on it the
same thing is I can actually go up here
and change the name to Chris Mon luxe
and I can then choose the description
which is another line of text and I can
say multimedia edit or so there it is
and now you can see I have a lower third
on me that's neat and you can adjust
those with all the different you can
change the font types and you can come
in here and change all of the different
things that we changed with the titles
and make it your own now these are just
presets you could create your own and
bring it in if you'd like but it's
really nice to just have
ones that are already there and they
look quite nice you can change the
colors of them if you'd like and do all
the rest so if I want to change the face
here of the of this lower third I can
change the color to whatever I wanted to
make it black and there you go
pretty simple very very easy and you
have a lower third and there's even
animated lower thirds that are on here
as well so if you wanted to use those
you could just go in and choose an
animated lower third and let's go to see
here if I use this guy here it looks
like he animates on lines up and comes
in so you could use those and if you'd
like or you know this one animates on
lights on and there it is up next so no
matter what you're doing you can
probably find a really great preset
already change it to your desire and go
from there to make nice professional
titles and graphics for your video in
our next segment we're going to be
covering audio