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326Final Cut Pro User Guide
4. Click the preview thumbnail for any of the highlighted facets, then choose a new preset
material from the pop-up menu.
The facets are updated to display the new material—both in your 3D title in the viewer
and in the preview thumbnails in the inspector. The facets are also automatically linked
together so that further changes to any of them affect all of them.
Link facets together
You can link two or more facets together so that changes made to one of them are
automatically applied to the others.
1. Select a 3D title in the Final Cut Pro timeline.
2. In the Material section of the 3D Text section of the Text inspector, click the Material
pop-up menu and choose Multiple.
3. Shift-click the names of two or more facets you want to link.
4. Click the broken link icon on one of the selected facets.
The selected facets are linked and display blue active link icons
.
5. To add another facet to the group, click its broken link icon.
The additional facet is linked to the group. Now when you select any facet in the linked
group, all linked facets are highlighted. Changes made to any of the highlighted facets
are automatically made to all other facets in the linked group.
To remove a facet from a linked group, click the link icon for the facet you want to
unlink. The facet is deselected and removed from the group.