Apple Motion: custom title with a blurred background

Hi

I had a look at your project file.

The reason it doesn't work in FCP is because you turn off the title background group. It needs to be on because it is the asset that instructs the media in FCP - so with it disabled - the instructions are disabled.

If you want to blur the media in FCP, the filter would generally go on the title background asset.

This is just a baseline method though, but lets start from here to set the basics, and then, if for example, you have followed a tutorial that uses a different method - we can move to that and see where you may need to adapt ( I am just assuming that you may have learned from the tutorial but found the same method doesn't work in what you want to do for this)

The publish a control to turn the blur on or off - you can put the mix of the filter onto a check box widget - with the mix at zero in the disabled state - and at 100 in the on state.

Is the blur supposed to animate in?

A quick observation - you have the published the speed menu, but you have left the custom option available. This is redundant in FCP and can cause confusion for the end user as it does not nothing.

Unpublished the menu from the behavior. Add a rig and pop up menu. Format the pop up to with the same settings as the behavior menu - do not include a setting for custom. Now match the settings of the behavior menu to the pop-up menu and publish that.

I have a tutorial on this, but I am prohibited from posting a link to it, so ..just to let you know, once we resolve this issue with the blur filter in FCP, I can take you through it in more detail here.

Your duration controls look ok - just note that the build in marker is too many frames -set that marker to where the maximum duration of the in animation is plus 1 frame.

I added the filter revision and did the pop up widget for the text behavior speed menu

(If you don't see it that is because admin have deleted it - although by the forum rules this link is related to the question asked so hopefully they will not)

Try the filter on the title background with and leave the background asset active. You'll see the blur working now in FCP.

From there, we can hear back from you about the settings you need to provide for the blur in FCP and we can show you how to do that from the filter applied the title background. If you did learn from the tutorial, please send a link to that so we can see get the full context.

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