Trying to editing an FCP OST or Lower-Thirds template in Motion.

BenB wrote:

"Data Card" isn't the name of a title temple FCPX comes with. Could this be a third party add-on?

It's under Titles/Elements, category 'Data', just 'Card':

Rather ugly 😉 and astonishing complex, when you open it in M5 … beyond my skills to give any helpful advice.

The entire setup is being controlled by Rigs. It's not only the Paragraph Layout that's been "locked down" but text parameters like line spacing, size, and opacity, bullet points positions, etc. have also been overridden.

Before going forward, you have to realize you'll have to completely "gut" the text handling in this title and basically start from scratch. To gut it, all you need to do is delete the "Layout" Rig. You will be starting out with whichever Layout option you have set at the time of deletion (most of the time... no guarantees).

The Bullets Rig is controlling the opacity of the five bullet point cross images, and the Graphic Length Rig is essentially controlling the position of a mask for the "hashmarks" on the top "YEAR" line. You can probably leave those in place.

If you "Open a Copy in Motion" for each Layout option, you could save each as a separate customized project... but I wouldn't even begin to try to make alterations through the Layout Rig.

Once you get all the individual variations set up with your changes, then you can go back to one copy of the set, create a new Layout Rig, then for each variation, create new Snapshot; use the Edit Mode button; make your changes for all parameters for a particular variant (using the separate variant project for a guide), letting Motion assemble all the details. Repeat until finished.

This type of project is as about as advanced a Motion project as there is [it's a 4-in-1]. I'm not for an instant suggesting that anything like this is over your head, but it is very involved (and definitely somebody else's workflow!). There are four completely different layouts used for the text and specifying parameter values will be very tedious. Most template makers would have made this four different projects (and likely "themed" them). This project was also made when Motion was in version 5.0.5 (FCPX 10.0.6)... So... not how I'd make it today 😉 . I'm actually surprised: until today, I'd never seen it before... LOL. If you're looking for ways that are better and easier to align up several text "boxes", then I would recommend Align To (for the + bullets as well). You only have to position one object and all others will be aligned to it. With additional lines of text (not possible in this current version) subsequent Align To'd objects will automatically readjust their vertical positions depending on the number of lines of text... so... "sweet". [Just beware of "overflows" with respect to the background graphics — a project for another day.]

HTH

garrett237 wrote:

This is awesome!!! Thank you fox_m! …

Mr Mahoney IS awesome, the undisputed MotionMaster.

No, those funny green and red 'dots' can not be corrected.

Interesting, that three (Ben, f., me) heavy-users of FC/M haven't seen this template before LOL.

So, to add at last my 5¢ as unjustified 'solver' of this topic:

Garrett, what is your intent with such a generator/title template?

What fox_ already stated: today, three layouts would be three templates... that simple, no rigging-orgy 😉 (academically interesting, what's possible, but way too complex … for me)

Guess, a from-scratch new Title is much easier to accomplish … for home use, I would simply type

+ line1

+ line 2

+ line… no automatisms at all....

@fox_m

Motion5? by design/look, I would have indicated that as a Motion 3 relict… 😝

(excuse me, Garrett, for bashing your preferred template, but it's so … it doesn't fit my personal taste)

"Data Card" isn't the name of a title temple FCPX comes with. Could this be a third party add-on?