Final Cut Twirl Effect

See if this helps.

I just created a Twirl effect in Motion. A very simple one: added the "Twirl" filter and published a bunch of parameters.

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/2809ef9200ef68931e702480595afefa20201209102411/6782b4e614d6740867f754c09515597820201209102428/d02712

It will be available for a week.

Unzip it (if the browser does not do it automatically) and place it in the proper location. If you need help with that, let us know.

The Underwater and Wave effects are to be found in the Distortion section of Effects.

Sahasvat_V wrote:

I just threw it in

Movies -> Motion Templates -> Effects and it seemed to work

Probably there is an extra folder in there as a result of unzipping, but that's fine.

Does it appear in a category "Twirl" by its own in the effects browser in FCP?

"Color", "Distortion", "Looks", etc are categories, each with some effects in it.

So you have "Twirl" in the same column as those, which means "Twirl" is the name of a "category" - presumably with only one effect, also called "Twirl" in it. That is fine.

It also means that you have a folder hierarchy, just as I expected:

Movies/Motion Templates/Effects/Twirl/Twirl

It is perfectly ok.

Try this. . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c-gbPcYonU

.........and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH8yF744ONY

Sahasvat_V wrote:

What's the proper location

Movies/Motion Templates/Effects/Lichinho/

"Movies" is your Movies folder.

If there is not already a Motion Templates folder, create one, then Effects inside it.

Inside effects, create a folder - it does not have to named "Lichinho", it can be anything that is meaningful to you. That is the "category" where the effect will appear in the effects browser in FCP.

Note: if you create the folders above, then "Motion Templates" and "Effects" have to be "localized": select each of the folders in turn, press command-I and in the Get Info window add a .localized extension. It won't be seen in the Finder, but it is necessary for FCP to work with these folders.