I have scrolling title in FCP which I'd like to pause (freeze frame). Splitting a title doesn't work; it only creates two shorter titles. I've opened up the title in motion, but can't see how to apply in/out keyframes, during which scrolling rate would be zero. This will be he "footer" used many times, with the text editable inside FPX.
Are there any good tutorials on this?
TIA
Mac mini, macOS 11.7
There is a quick way to make the freeze frame in FCP, and not affect the overall speed of the title.
Select the title, and press Option-G to make it a compound clip. Then press Option-F to make a freeze frame.
That gets the job done without having to modify your title in Motion.
There are probably ways to do this in Motion, but I will defer to more knowledgeable people like fox_m.
Are you talking about the "Scrolling" title that comes with Final Cut? Otherwise, describe the type of text layout and direction of scroll, how you want it to pause and for how long... You really have to use a different strategy than the "Scroll Text" behavior that's built into Motion.
In Motion:
Start a new Title project and delete the default Text (it's just easier than going through all the steps to "normalize" it.)
Whether you use a Title Background or not for the Title template is up to you, but have Motion create a Title Background (it can be "hidden" if you don't want it).
Create a New Group.
Add a Text Object and center it up - and Center the text. It can have mulitple lines or not... you'll see why in a minute.
Add a Behaviors > Basic Motion > Align To and duplicate it.
To Align To (bottom-most), add the Title Background to the Object drop well and do the same for the other Align To.
For the bottom-most Align To, set Align "text" to Text Ascender > Center.
Set the To "Title Background" to Bottom.
For the upper Align To, set the Align "text" to Text Descender > Center.
Set the To "Title Background" to Top.
For the upper Align To, set the Transition to Custom.
Publish the Custom Amount which can be keyframed from 0-100% and anything in between.
For the first half of your animation - keyframe 0 - 50% (for "dead center") then the second half up to 100%. [Dead center will depend on Ascent and Descent of the font(s) used — and you can simply adjust it be the percentage keyframe.]
NOTES:
Fonts are *** all different *** ascents and descents. These are extremely variable depending on the Font creator/artist. No two are likely to be exactly the same. Therefore, there will be some fonts where the characters are drawn outside of these limits!!
I recommend also publishing the Offset > Y parameters of both Align To behaviors so that you can compensate if necessary so that you can force the text to start and and completely offscreen AND you can customize where "dead center" occurs (if that makes any sense.)
To hide/remove the Title Background, place it in its own group at the bottom of the Layers List. Uncheck the Group visibility. The Title Background is used for the Align To's because it should always be the appropriate height for any project settings.
HTH
"There is a quick way…"
Beautiful. Just what I wanted.
Now, how do I get inside the clip any time I want to update the text (change of musicians, venue or date)?
It looks as though I can double-click either the two scroll clips and edit there, for both. But the freeze frame isn't editable; I simply have to make a new one.
Is this about right?
"Are you talking about the "Scrolling" title that comes with Final Cut?"
Actually just finished doing it in FCP, thanks to Luis. The only disadvantage is that for subsequent editing, I have to make a new freeze frame. Not a big extra job.
But doing it in Motion (which I know nothing about), it seemed to be not much more than a pair of keyframes (within which, the scroll speed could be set to zero).
"Otherwise, describe the type of text layout and direction of scroll, how
you want it to pause and for how long... You really have to use a
different strategy than the "Scroll Text" behavior that's built into
Motion."
Simple vertical scroll, upwards. Normal text, center-justified, aligned text to the top. Negligible line spacing and tracking
Final question:
With the scroll/freeze/scroll done, is it safer to keep it in compound clip form, or compound opened up?
Amazing, fox_m
Many thanks
You're welcome!
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