Titles Zoom in FCPX ?

Hi,

If its just the text in the title you want to make bigger. Select the title on timeline go to > inspector window > under text > there is option to change size > you can key frame the size of text. Hope this helps!

you can resize the text by changing the size field - you dont necessarily have to use key frames if you just want the size of text to be bigger.

Just to let you know…there is a bug in FCP wherein the text size slider for most title templates doesn't work with key frames. (The key frame controls are there but don't have any effect.)

Alternatively, you can take a look at what parameters are published in the Video tab – including scale under transform.

Russ

Russ H is right! I just tested it and it doesnt work.

That's correct Russ. Text size animation in the Text inspector only works if the parameter is published to the application, i.e. if it also appears in the Video inspector.

I have a list of titles that text size works and don't work.

you cant animate the text in title but you can make it bigger.

yes the static size.

you can right click on the title on the timeline and select show animation you can key frame transform there and change values in inspector.

Try this out:

http://sight-creations.com/fxexchange/TitleZoomSC.zip

It is a basic 5 second title and has 4 parameters:

The zoom effect will start at Start Offset Frames (gives the viewer a chance to see the title before animating, or set it to zero to begin zooming right away.)

The Z Change Rate will zoom the text Star Wars style for negative values and zoom the text toward the viewer with positive values. Values near 0 will vary the text only slightly and 0 means no change.

There is a fade out (in frames) if you don't zoom the text all the way (and quite necessary for zooming the text away from the viewer.)

The Y Position parameter will give it a better "fly-by" effect -- this should be keyframed from 0 at the beginning to a few pixels either direction (you'll be able to tell.)

If you need it to go faster, just shorten the title in the storyline; conversely, if you need to stretch it out some, lengthen the title in the storyline.

If the title looks fuzzy/pixelated when animating - and that bothers you, just select it and render it (Control-R) then play it.

This will do the effect you want, easily.

HTH

shippo_uk wrote:

What I basically want it to do is go from nothing to look as if the text is coming out of the screen towards the viewer and beyond.

An alternative solution would be to get Motion5 for $50.

Although it can do a lot more than titles, it can build templates that are quite sophisticated in a surprisingly short amount of time. You can also take the templates that ship with FCP and customize them as needed. So for example, your zoom could incorporate depth of field and perspective for added realism.

Just a thought.

Russ

Message was edited by: Russ H This was posted before I saw Fox's post.

Like has been said before, keyframing text parameters doesn't always work (I'd say it mostly doesn't work).

I found one simple way to make the "Zoom" title, er... zoom.

Instead of trying to keyframe the font size, click the video tab and keyframe the scale.

Move to the start, click the keyframe button and set the initial scale. Then move to the end and set the final scale. The slider will only let you zoom in so far; but you can enter a larger value directly (like 1300% in the example below).

Put it inside ~/Movies/Motion Templates/Titles