Crate motion blur effect for FCPX using Motion 5 titles

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Crate motion blur effect for FCPX using Motion 5 titles

Hi everyone, I've seen a lot of tutorials showing that is possibile to create a motion blur effect for final cut pro X by just working on the project properties of a Motion 5 title template and export it. In practice, you create a title template, trash the text layer (that will not be used), change the motion blur parameters in project settings, save title and it's done. Quick and easy. But trying myself I'm not able to see any changes to the clip in FPCX. So my question is, are project settings applied to FCPX's clips or not anymore?

Tutorial example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUXEITPRO4w

Thank you!

iMac 27", 10.13

Posted on Feb 7, 2019 12:27 AM

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fox_m

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Feb 9, 2019 8:34 PM in response to Giammii

I personally did not find that the technique used in the tutorial video works. I find that the motion blur actually repeats if the title is extended... and I mean, from the beginning of the clip... it looks terrible. So adding the Project Loop End Marker is pointless. None of the other markers will work either. However, if you use the Title for LESS time than the project length of the Title, then you will have a decent adjustment layer.

All you have to do is

1) Delete the text from the title project

2) go to the Render Menu and enable Motion Blur (select it in the menu -- it will have a checkmark when enabled).

3) move the playhead to the last frame of your project and type M (adds a marker) then Command-Option-M (to edit the marker) and from the "Type" dropdown menu, select Project Loop End.

Make any choices you want in Project > Properties > Motion Blur [Mark suggests increasing Samples to 16 - higher numbers will slow down rendering further.] You should try out different settings with the Shutter Angle as well.

Save. Try it out in FCPX.

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