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281Final Cut Pro User Guide
Add titles
Add and adjust titles
Intro to titles in Final Cut Pro
Titles play a critical role in movies, providing important bookends (such as opening titles
and closing credits) and conveying time and dates within the movie. Titles, especially in
the lower third of the screen, are also used in documentaries and informational videos
to convey details about subjects or products onscreen. You can also add notes and
placeholders within your project while you edit.
You can create titles and credits within Final Cut Pro with title effects. Titles are
synthesized clips (similar to generators) created by Final Cut Pro. Title clips don’t refer to
any media on your Mac or storage device. When you add a title as a connected clip directly
above another clip, the underlying clip appears as the title’s background, sparing you the
need to perform any further compositing to create that effect.
For information about 3D titles, see
Intro to 3D titles in Final Cut Pro.
For information about creating subtitles and closed captions, see Intro to captions in
Final Cut Pro.