By default, these populate as you enter keywords, but you can change their contents at any time simply by typing in the text box you want to assign to that shortcut. Twirl the arrow down to reveal up to nine presets – each with its own keyboard shortcut – for keywords that you use frequently. This displays the keyword text entry box. You access the Keywords menu by clicking the Key icon at the top left corner of the Final Cut interface (shortcut: Cmd + K). Keywords allow us to label a clip, or portion of a clip, so that we can find it when we need it again later quickly, easily and with a great deal of specificity. In looking back over my records, the last time I wrote about these was five years ago. However, I’ve discovered that many users still don’t know how to use them. If you would like a simple title template with two text paragraph areas, download this ZIP file and copy the folder to a subfolder of the Motion Templates / Titles:įor more on Final Cut Pro X – including over 50 free effects, titles and transitions – visit my Final Cut Pro X home page.Keywords became useful with the 10.2 update to Final Cut Pro X. The manual and help system states that you can drag tab stops off the ruler, but this often causes Final Cut Pro X to crash.Īs tabs and the Distort tool are features implemented using code from the Motion application, tabs still work if you use the Distort tool to modify the title. To delete tabs, use this control-click menu. If you control-click in the ruler where there isn’t a tab, a similar menu appears giving the option of what kind of tab stop you create: If you control-click a tab stop, you can change the kind of tab stop it is, or delete it. If you insert tab characters in the text, you can align text in different rows: If you click the ruler, you can add tab stops to the paragraph selected. If you click it, you’ll see a ruler appear at the top of the text: If you have a single paragraph text area selected, a ruler button appears in top-right corner of the viewer. The Zoom title template uses paragraph type. If you type in a paragraph text area, the text will be limited to the text box area. Paragraph text is defined as a text box with margins. When multiple text areas are selected, the selection boxes are never larger than the text: The arrows in the top-left corner of the viewer cycle between the text areas (as do Option-Tab and Shift-Option-Tab), Command-Return commits the text changes and exits text editing mode. When a single text area is selected, it looks like this: Type text is defined in Motion as having a single origin point – if you keep typing text, it will extend off the edge of the screen. The choice of which kind of text area used in a title template is down to the designer. There are two main kinds of text area in Title templates: Type and Paragraph. The implementation is a little buggy, so explore it in test projects to get the hang of it. Tab stops in text were an undocumented feature of previous versions of Final Cut Pro X, but Apple have acknowledged the feature by adding a viewer button and documenting it in the manual and online help system. In this case the alignment was changed to Left aligned: However, even if you have more than one text box selected, some changes in the inspector are only applied to the first text box. You can also move multiple text boxes by dragging (unless the title template designer has disabled text repositioning): If you then make changes in the Text tab of the Inspector, they are made to more than one box at a time: You can drag in the viewer or Command-click boxes to select more than one text box. If you select the title in the timeline, or if the playhead is over the title, there are two new ways to select multiple text items: Here they are in action using the Zoom title (from the ‘Build In/Out’ section of the Titles browser) as an example. The 10.0.6 update added some text editing features for modifying title text. Final Cut Pro X 10.0.6: Title editing improvements
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