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440Motion User Guide
Apply the title in Final Cut Pro
1. Click the Titles and Generators button in the top-left corner of the Final Cut Pro window.
2. In the sidebar, click Titles, then locate the title to add.
3. Do one of the following:
• Drag the title into the timeline, above the clip you want to composite it over.
When you release the mouse button, the title is anchored to the clip, and the clip is
used as the background. The title can span multiple clips in the timeline. The clips
populate the Title Background placeholder, inheriting any transforms, filters, or other
effects applied to the placeholder in Motion.
• Drag the title into an empty area of the main timeline.
When you release the mouse button, the title is added as a standalone title clip (that
is not composited over a video clip). If the title effect contains a Title Background
placeholder, the placeholder is ignored, and a background clip cannot be specified.
Drag the In and Out points to increase or decrease the duration of the title.
For information on working with titles in Final Cut Pro, see the Final Cut Pro User Guide.
Create a title background in Motion
In a title template, the Title Background placeholder is not intended to hold source media
(images or movie clips) added in Motion. Although you can drag an image or clip onto the
Title Background placeholder in Motion to preview how the titles will look composited over
media, those images are never used in Final Cut Pro. If you want to give Final Cut Pro users
the option of adding their own source media to a title, add a drop zone to the title template
in Motion.
Drop zones can be any size and can be placed in any region of the frame. You can add
filters, behaviors, and animations to drop zones in Motion so those effects influence clips
later added in Final Cut Pro. For more information on drop zones, see Intro to drop zones
in Motion. To better understand the difference between placeholders and drop zones, see
Placeholders vs. drop zones in Motion.
Create a background for a title template
• In a Final Cut Title project in Motion, do one of the following:
• In the toolbar, click Add Object, then choose Drop Zone from the pop-up menu.
• Choose Object > New Drop Zone (or press Command-Shift-D).
A drop zone layer (titled “Drop Zone”) appears in the layers list and canvas.
When the template is saved in Motion, the title is added to the Final Cut Pro Titles
browser. When a Final Cut Pro editor adds the title to the timeline, a Drop Zone image
well appears in the Final Cut Pro Title inspector. Using this image well, an editor can
add a source clip that appears beneath the titles. Using the drop zone’s onscreen
controls (accessed by double-clicking the drop zone in the Viewer), an editor can
pan or scale the source clip within the drop zone. For more information, refer to the
Final Cut Pro User Guide.