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415Final Cut Pro User Guide
Modify Final Cut Pro generators in Motion
Many of the generators were created using Motion, an Apple app designed to work
with Final Cut Pro. To further customize a generator, you can open it in Motion, make
modifications, and save the changes as a new file that you can access from the Titles and
Generators sidebar.
Important: To modify generators in Motion, you must have Motion 5 installed on your
computer.
1. If the Titles and Generators sidebar isn’t already shown in Final Cut Pro, do one of the
following:
• Choose Window > Go To > Titles and Generators (or press Option-Command-1).
• Click the Titles and Generators button in the top-left corner of the Final Cut Pro
window.
2. In the Titles and Generators sidebar, click Generators, or click a generators category.
To view the categories, click the Generators disclosure triangle.
3. In the browser, Control-click a generator thumbnail, then choose “Open a copy in
Motion.”
Motion opens, and the clip’s project appears.
4. Modify the clip’s project.
See the Motion User Guide.
5. Choose File > Save As (or press Shift-Command-S), then enter a name for the new
generator and click Publish.
If you choose File > Save, the generator is saved using the same name, with “copy”
appended to its end.
Note: If you have created or customized any Final Cut Pro effects, transitions, titles, or
generators in Motion, set the storage location for your Motion content to In Library before
starting any copy or move operations between libraries or storage devices. Otherwise,
the Motion content is not included in those operations. See Manage Motion content in
Final Cut Pro. Regardless, you must manually track and move any third-party (FxPlug)
content, because it is not managed within the Final Cut Pro library.