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292Final Cut Pro User Guide
Text inspector controls in Final Cut Pro
You can make common text adjustments using controls in the Text inspector.
To access these controls, select a title clip in the Final Cut Pro timeline, then open the Text
inspector.
Preset pop-up menu
• Preset: An unlabeled pop-up menu at the top of the Text inspector, used to apply preset
text styles to titles in the timeline. You can also use this pop-up menu to save text
appearance and format settings. See
Apply preset text styles in Final Cut Pro.
Text editor
• Text: Many titles include a text field (the darker shaded area) to add and edit text in your
title from the inspector.
Basic controls
• Font: A pop-up menu to choose a font for selected text.
• Font Style: An unlabeled pop-up menu (to the right of the Font pop-up menu) to choose
a type style, such as Regular, Bold, Condensed, and so on. The available styles are
specific to the font family selected in the Font pop-up menu.
• Size: A slider to set the point size of the text. The slider is constrained to a maximum of
288 points. To create larger text, drag to the right over the numeric value slider, or click
the value, type a new number, and press Return.
• Alignment: Buttons to set the alignment and justification of text.
• Vertical Alignment: Buttons to set the vertical alignment of text.
• Line Spacing: A slider to set the distance between each line of text (leading) in point-
size increments.
Tip: To modify the spacing for individual lines of text when hard returns are present,
select text, then adjust the Line Spacing slider. Spacing is modified on the line that
includes the selected text.