Looking for a heart wipe transition for Final Cut Pro

I'm looking for a heart wipe transition for Final Cut Pro. I see it's been asked for a number of times on here but the links are no longer available. If anyone has one, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Posted on Jul 14, 2026 12:42 PM

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Posted on Jul 14, 2026 4:41 PM

Sorry for the delay.


I didn't particularly care for the original version of this transition, so I spent a little time making it more presentable. In particular, the heart shape outline was a constant thickness (which I didn't like). I've changed it so that the outline thickness will animate from 0 width to full thickness rather quickly in the Open option, and it animates the thickness to 0 when the heart shape is shrinking over the same time as the heart shrinks in the Close option.


You will probably need to experiment with parameters like Bounce and Bounce Count (it is possible to turn off the bounce effect when both are set to 0) and Gap. (Bounce creates a short "heartbeat" effect...)


The Gap parameter at the bottom is to spread out the time separating the "In" animation and the "Out" animation. It really helps to separate these animations when the bounce effect is in effect.


The Size parameter was changed to range from 1 to 3 (factors of scaling - 3 = 300%). Some weird problem with Motion will always display 99.9% if 100 is the **minimum** value... (which I find very annoying.)


If you have any questions — just ask!


Hope this helps:


https://fcpxtemplates.com/sdm_downloads/heart-wipe-2/


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Jul 14, 2026 4:41 PM in response to richjean

Sorry for the delay.


I didn't particularly care for the original version of this transition, so I spent a little time making it more presentable. In particular, the heart shape outline was a constant thickness (which I didn't like). I've changed it so that the outline thickness will animate from 0 width to full thickness rather quickly in the Open option, and it animates the thickness to 0 when the heart shape is shrinking over the same time as the heart shrinks in the Close option.


You will probably need to experiment with parameters like Bounce and Bounce Count (it is possible to turn off the bounce effect when both are set to 0) and Gap. (Bounce creates a short "heartbeat" effect...)


The Gap parameter at the bottom is to spread out the time separating the "In" animation and the "Out" animation. It really helps to separate these animations when the bounce effect is in effect.


The Size parameter was changed to range from 1 to 3 (factors of scaling - 3 = 300%). Some weird problem with Motion will always display 99.9% if 100 is the **minimum** value... (which I find very annoying.)


If you have any questions — just ask!


Hope this helps:


https://fcpxtemplates.com/sdm_downloads/heart-wipe-2/


Looking for a heart wipe transition for Final Cut Pro

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