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Add titles to your project
You add titles to clips in your project using the Titles Browser. Once you have added text, you can 
modify the title’s text style.
Add a title to a project clip
 1 Drag the playhead in the Timeline to the point where you want to add the title.
 2 Click the Titles button in the toolbar (or press Command-5).
 3 Do any of the following:
 •To add a title from the Titles Browser: Double-click the title.
A title clip is added at the playhead location.
 •To add a basic title: Choose Edit > Connect Title > Basic Title (or press Control-T ).
A title clip named Basic Title (with no effects or animations) is added at the playhead location.
 •To add a lower-third title: Choose Edit > Connect Title > Basic Lower Third (or press 
Control-Shift-T ).
A lower-third title clip named Basic Lower Third (with no effects or animations) is added at the 
playhead location.
The title clip is connected to the clip in the primary storyline at the position of the playhead. 
Visually, the title is superimposed over the clip in the primary storyline at the playhead position. 
If the playhead is not over a clip, the title is superimposed over the default background.
Add a title as a clip in the primary storyline
There are two ways to add a title as a clip in the primary storyline. You can either insert a title 
clip at the edit point between two clips or replace an existing clip in the primary storyline with a 
title clip.
 m To add a title between clips in the Timeline: Drag a title from the Titles Browser to the edit point 
between the clips where you want the title clip to appear.
 mTo replace an existing Timeline clip with a title clip: Drag a title from the Titles Browser to the clip in 
the Timeline that you want to replace, and choose Replace from the shortcut menu.
Enter text for your title
After you add a title clip to your project in the Timeline, you can type text for your title in 
the Viewer.
 1 Select a title clip in the Timeline.
 2 Move the playhead over the selected title clip.
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 3 In the Viewer, double-click the title text, and type text for your title.
Double-click the text box 
to type text for the title.Next Text Layer button
Previous Text Layer button
 4 To select a different text object, do one of the following:
 •Click the Previous Text Layer or Next Text Layer button.
 •Double-click a different text object.
 5 Type new text as necessary.
 6 To exit text editing, press Command-Return.
Note:  The Previous Text Layer and Next Text Layer buttons also support Motion text edit markers. 
For more information, see Motion Help at http://help.apple.com/motion.
Adjust titles
You can edit text in the Viewer, and adjust a title’s text appearance using the Title and Video 
inspectors. For example, you can adjust a title’s opacity or modify the text’s font, alignment, color, 
glow, and drop shadow.
Edit title text 
 1 Double-click a title clip in the Timeline.
 2 Do one of the following:
 •Double-click a text object in the Viewer.
 •Select the text in the Text inspector.
 3 Edit the text.
 4 To exit text editing, press Command-Return.
Adjust a title’s position onscreen
 1 Select a title clip in the Timeline.
 2 Move the playhead over the selected title clip.
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 3 Do one of the following:
 •In the Viewer, drag the text object to the new position.
 •Double-click the text object and drag the position button to the new position.
Click the position button (the small circle) and drag 
the title to the new position.
Adjust a title clip’s opacity
If you’re placing a title over an existing clip, you can adjust the title clip’s transparency.
 1 Double-click a title clip in the Timeline.
 2 Choose Window > Show Inspector (or press Command-4), and click the Video button at the top 
of the pane that appears.
Opacity slider
 3 In the Compositing section, adjust the opacity settings.
 4 To edit text editing, press Command-Return.
Note:  You can also keyframe a title’s opacity setting.
Adjust a title’s settings
You can modify a title’s settings in the Title inspector.
You can build and modify titles in Motion 5 for use in Final Cut Pro. When you save a title template 
in Motion, you can choose which parameters to publish in the Title inspector in Final Cut Pro. For 
this reason, the parameters that you can adjust in the Title inspector vary from title to title.
See the information about Final Cut Pro X templates in Motion Help at  http://help.apple.com/motion.
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 1 Select a title clip in the Timeline.
 2 Choose Window > Show Inspector (or press Command-4), and click the Title button at the top of 
the pane that appears.
 3 Adjust the available settings as needed.
Note:  You can also keyframe many of the settings in both the Title and Text inspectors.
Modify a title’s text style
You can modify the text style for a title.
 1 Double-click a title clip in the Timeline.
The title appears in the Viewer, and the text in the first text object in the title clip is selected.
Note:  To modify a different text object in the same title, select it in the Viewer.
 2 Choose Window > S how Inspector (or press Command-4).
 3 Adjust the available settings as needed in the sections listed below. 
Note:  To reveal the controls in each of the sections, you may need to scroll down in the Text 
inspector and double-click each section name.
 •Basic: Sets the basic font controls such as font, size, alignment, tracking, and line spacing.
 •Face: Sets the text color, opacity, and blur.
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 •Outline: Sets the text outline color, opacity, blur, and width.
 •Glow : Sets the text glow color, opacity, blur, and radius.
 •Drop Shadow: Sets the text drop-shadow color, opacity, distance, and angle.
 4 To exit text editing, press Command-Return.
Note:  You can also keyframe many of the settings in both the Title and Text inspectors.
Adjust multiple text objects in a title clip at once
You can adjust the settings of more than one text object at once.
 1 Select a title clip in the Timeline.
 2 Move the playhead over the selected title clip.
 3 In the Viewer, do one of the following:
 •Holding down the Command key, select the text objects you want to modify.
 •Drag to select the text objects you want to modify.
 4 Choose Window > S how Inspector (or press Command-4).
 5 Adjust the available settings as needed.
Use the ruler to lay out and align paragraph text objects
Text created in Motion and some titles in the Titles Browser contain paragraph text. You can use 
a ruler and tabs to control the layout of paragraph text. For more information, see Motion Help at 
http://help.apple.com/motion.
 1 Double-click a paragraph text object in the Viewer.
 2 In the Viewer, click the Show Ruler button.
Note:  The Show Ruler button appears only when you edit a paragraph text object.
A ruler appears above the paragraph text object in the Viewer. Tabs in the ruler show how 
tabbed text will be aligned in the selected text.
Left tabCenter tabDecimal tabRight tab
 3 Do any of the following:
 •To add a tab: Click in the ruler.
 •To change the type of tab added when you click in the ruler: Control-click in the ruler and choose 
a tab type from the shortcut menu.
 •To move a tab: Drag it to another position on the ruler.
 •To delete a tab: Drag it out of the ruler.
 •To change a tab to another tab type: Control-click the tab and choose a tab type from the 
shortcut menu.
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Apply preset text styles
Final Cut Pro comes with a set of preset text styles that you can apply to text. A text style is 
a group of style settings. You can also create your own custom text styles and save them as 
presets. You apply preset text styles using the pop-up menu at the top of the Text inspector.
Choose a preset text style 
from the pop-up menu.
Apply preset text styles to titles
 1 Double-click a title clip in the Timeline.
The title appears in the Viewer, and the text in the first text object in the title clip is selected.
 2 Choose Window > Show Inspector (or press Command-4), and click the Text button at the top of 
the pane that appears.
 3 Click the pop-up menu at the top of the Text inspector and choose a text style.
The text style is applied to the selected text.
Save and apply custom text styles
 1 Double-click a title clip in the Timeline.
The title appears in the Viewer, and the text in the first text object in the title clip is selected.
 2 Choose Window > Show Inspector (or press Command-4), and click the Text button at the top of 
the pane that appears.
 3 Make any custom changes to the font or style in the Text inspector.
For more information, see “Modify a title’s text style” in Adjust titles.
 4 In the pop-up menu at the top of the Text inspector, choose one of the following:
 •Save Format Attributes: Saves basic font controls, including font, size, alignment, tracking, and 
line spacing.
 •Save Style Attributes: Saves effects such as text color, outline color, glow, drop shadow, and 
so on.
 •Save All Format + Style Attributes: Saves both format attributes and style attributes.
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 5 In the Save Preset to Library window, type a name for your new custom preset.
The custom text style is saved and appears in alphabetical order in the pop-up menu at the top 
of the Text inspector.
Custom preset
 6 To apply the new preset to another title, select the title in the Timeline and choose the preset 
from the pop-up menu at the top of the Text inspector.
Remove titles from your project
You can remove a title from your project at any time.
Remove a title
 mIn the Timeline, select the title you want to remove, and press Delete.
Find and replace text in your project
If your project contains multiple instances of a particular word or phrase displayed in multiple 
title clips, such as names, company names, or job titles, you can find the specific word or phrase 
and quickly change each instance of it.
Find and replace title text
 1 Choose Edit > F ind and Replace Title Text.
 2 In the Find and Replace Title Text window that appears, type the text you want to search for in 
the Find field.
 3 In the Replace field, type the text you want to replace the text you’re looking for.
 4 To choose where to search, do one of the following:
 •To search for text in the selected title clip: Choose Selected Title from the “Search in” 
pop-up menu.
This option is useful for searching in title clips that have a lot of text, such as credits.
 •To search for text across all the title clips in your project: Choose All Titles In Project from the 
“Search in” pop-up menu.
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 5 Do any of the following:
 •To match how letters are capitalized in your search string: Select the “Match case” checkbox.
 •To locate whole words rather than a group of letters within words: Select the “Whole words” 
checkbox.
 •To have the search start over from the beginning of the searched item once it’s reached the end: 
Select the “Loop search” checkbox.
 6 Do one of the following:
 •To replace all instances of the text at once: Click the Replace All button.
 •To replace this single instance of the text only: Click the Replace button.
 •To replace this instance of the text and locate the next place the text appears:  Click the Replace & 
Find button.
 •To cycle forward and backward through each instance of the text you’re looking for:  Click the 
Previous and Next buttons.
Adjust built-in effects
Built-in effects overview
Final Cut Pro includes several video effects that are part of each Timeline clip and directly 
accessible from the Viewer—all you need to do is select them and start making adjustments. You 
can use these to:
 •Create a composited image from several clips
 •Reposition or reframe a clip by zooming in on it
 •Crop a clip to remove unwanted items, such as microphones or lighting equipment, that 
accidentally appear in the video
 •Configure a Ken Burns effect to add life to your still images (and video clips as well)
You can use more than one of the built-in effects at the same time. For example, you can use 
Transform to reduce the image’s size and position, Trim to remove a portion of the video, and 
Distort to give the video a skewed look.
You can animate any of these effects so that they change as the clip plays. For example, you can 
have an image shrink and move offscreen. To configure an animation, you change settings at 
two or more points in the clip. When you play the clip, Final Cut Pro creates smooth animated 
transitions between the points.
Resize, move, and rotate clips
The Transform built-in effect allows you to resize, move, and rotate an image. This effect is 
commonly used on a clip placed over a primary storyline clip, which becomes the background 
of the resized clip. It is also often used to zoom in on a clip, allowing you to reframe a shot 
if needed.
Adjust the Transform effect
Controls in the Viewer and Video inspector allow you to adjust this effect. However, some 
controls are found in only one or the other.
 1 Select a clip in the Timeline.
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 2 To access the Transform controls, do one of the following:
 •Choose Transform from the pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the Viewer (or press Shift-T ).
 •Control-click in the Viewer and choose Transform from the shortcut menu.
 3 To adjust the effect using the onscreen controls:
 •Blue handles at each corner: Drag these to adjust the image’s size while maintaining its current 
aspect ratio.
 •Blue handles in the middle of each side: Drag these to independently adjust the vertical and 
horizontal image size, changing the aspect ratio of the image.
Note:  These controls aren’t available in the Video inspector.
 •White circle in the center: Shows the rotation anchor point. Drag anywhere inside the image to 
adjust the image’s position.
 •Blue handle extending from the center circle: Drag this to rotate the image.
Tip:  For finer precision when rotating the image, drag the rotation handle farther away from 
the anchor point in the center.
Drag a corner handle to change the image’s 
size without changing 
its aspect ratio.Drag a side’s handle 
to change the aspect  ratio of the image.
Drag anywhere inside the image to set its position.Drag this handle 
to rotate the image.
 4 Use the Transform controls in the Video inspector as follows:
 •Position X and Y: Use these to move the image left and right (X) and up and down (Y ).
 •Rotation: Use this to rotate the image around its anchor point.
 •Scale: Use this to change the image’s size.
 •Anchor X and Y: Use these to move the image’s center point. This defines the point that the 
image rotates around.
Note:  This control isn’t available in the onscreen controls.
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 5 When you are finished adjusting the effect and no longer need the onscreen controls, click Done. 
You can animate the effect and have it appear over a background. For details on working with 
built-in effects, see Work with built-in effects
 on page 235.
Trim clips
Trim controls allow you to independently trim each of the image edges, creating a window look. 
This effect, often used along with the Transform effect, is commonly used on a clip placed over a 
primary storyline clip, which becomes the background of the trimmed clip.
Adjust the Trim effect
 1 Select a clip in the Timeline.
 2 To access the Trim controls, do one of the following:
 •Choose Crop from the pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the Viewer (or press Shift-C).
 •Control-click in the Viewer and choose Crop from the shortcut menu.
 3 Click the Trim button at the bottom of the Viewer.
 4 To adjust the effect using the onscreen controls:
 •Blue handles at each corner: Drag these to adjust the position of two trim window sides at the 
same time.
 •Blue handles in the middle of each side: Drag these to independently adjust the position of 
each side.
 •Anywhere inside the window: Drag anywhere inside the window to adjust its position.
Drag a handle in the middle of a side to change only one side.
Drag a corner handle to 
change two sides at once.Drag anywhere in the image 
to position the trim window.
 5 To individually adjust each edge using the Crop area of the Video inspector, use the Trim controls.
 6 When you are finished adjusting the effect and no longer need the onscreen controls, click Done. 
You can animate the effect and have it appear over a background. For details on working with 
built-in effects, see Work with built-in effects
 on page 235.
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