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Saving parameters of animated titles in FCPX

Hi everyone,

I recently downloaded some free Lower Third titles to spruce up my videos, they look great and am happy with them.

However, since I've tweaked them to make them suit my needs, I've changed a whole heap of the parameters - font size, colour, position, etc etc - which is great if I'm just doing it once but I want to be able to save this as a new preset (or something) so I can just import my version of the title when I need. I'm doing various videos and want them to be the same.

Is there a way of doing this?

I've tried saving it as a compound clip but, the problem there, is that I can't seem to be able to then change the text afterwards?

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!!

Thank you.

James

Mac mini, macOS 10.14

Posted on Oct 7, 2020 1:41 AM

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Luis Sequeira1

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Posted on Oct 7, 2020 2:37 AM

A compound clip should work, with a little care.

If you drag the compound to a timeline and make changes by double clicking and working inside the compound, you will first need to do Clip->Reference new Parent Clip, otherwise your changes will affect all instances of the compound.

Alternatively, you drag the compound and then on the timeline do Break Apart Clip Items.

Changes to just the text (font, size, alignment, etc) can be saved as a preset directly in the Inspector; but as you seem to have made changes to the video pane as well, the compound clip way may be better.

Of course, if you have Motion there is an even better way: open a copy of the title in Motion, make the changes and save as a new title-then it can used as a separate title right from the titles browser.

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