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What is this?
Last week Ripple Training made a video about Motion 5′s link behavior. In their example they used titles only available in Motion 5. Some people commented they’d love these titles in Final Cut Pro X. I couldn’t agree more so I converted them to FCPX titles. Party time!
Why should YOU care?
Duh, 24 FREE titles! I spent 37 hours converting, linking and testing these templates so you don’t have to. Grab ‘em and get creating!
In Motion 5, these titles are compositions. I converted them to Title templates by changing the file extension from .motn to .moti and then published to FCPX. All the different elements had different color controls so I linked the colors together and published the controls. Now it’s easy to customize the color of each template.
Splash Menu Screenshot
How to install it
- Download the file. (206 MB)
- Unzip file.
- In the unzipped folder (Converted Templates) you’ll see two folders (Lower Thirds and Opens).
- Move the contents of the Lower Thirds folder to Home Folder>Movies>Motion Templates>Titles>Lower Thirds.
- Move the contents of the Opens folder to Home Folder>Movies>Motion Templates>Titles>Opens. HINT: If you don’t have an Opens folder, simply create one.
- Restart Final Cut Pro X and you’re good to go.
How to use it
In Final Cut Pro X click on the Title browser. Select Lower Thirds or Opens and then scroll down to the theme you want. You can also see all the titles for each theme by clicking on the Theme browser and selecting the theme from the left hand side list. There are 8 themes.
Vine Open
Vine Menu
Vine Lower Third
Swarm Open
Swarm Menu
Swarm Lower Third
Splash Open
Splash Menu
Splash Lower Third
Snap Open
Snap Menu
Snap Lower Third
Skyline Open
Skyline Menu
Skyline Lower Third
Pulse Open
Pulse Menu
Pulse Lower Third
Decode Open
Decode Menu
Decode Lower Third
Atmospheric Open
Atmospheric Menu
Atmospheric Lower Third
Drag the title onto your clips and then select the title. Depending on the title you’ll have some or all of the following options.
- Shape colors
- Text colors
- Background Colors
- Background Opacity
Snap Lower Third Screenshot
Some funkiness
You’ll notice in some of the templates when you change the shapes’ colors that there’s a delay. Some of the shapes update right away and others you have to move the playhead before they change color. Don’t worry too much because they do in fact change; you just have to move the playhead. Take a look at this video to see it in action.
Color theme inspiration
Now that you can customize colors you might need some design inspiration. Let me introduce you to Kuler. Kuler, meet time pressed video editor. Video editor, meet Kuler (down for maintenance until Mid October 2012). Kuler lets you try out, create and save color themes. You can browse color themes others have created and search by keyword to find your next killer color theme.
Vine Open Screenshot
If you have any questions, suggestions or use this in a video let me know in the comments below.
Thanks. Please let me know what else you create, for free or sale!
You got it. Did you sign up for my email newsletter? I noticed you used “Splash” on your homepage video. Nice work!
The file would not unzip. I’m on an IMac with Lion. I was using Unarchive. Any suggestions?
I just tested it out and it works for me. Try using the built in Archive Utility by double clicking on the file. Did that work?
You might use my Motion Template Tool for creating easy install scripts. It’s free.
-Andreas
Hi Andreas! I did try it out but I was confused. Don’t worry, with 4 kids I’m always confused.
If I understand correctly, the end user has to have MTT installed as well. Is that correct?
I’m new in final cut pro x. I just followed your guide but templates doesn’t works: they appear blue and if I try to click on “info” button, final cut crash…
I drag and dropped your folders in my motion template>titles.
what I can do?
Hi Valerio. There are so many variables at play that’s it hard to troubleshoot online. Can you record your screen and show me what’s happening? Quicktime player has screen recording and then you can upload it to Youtube.
Make sure to use the latest version of FCPX. (10.0.5).
Steve Martin is right. Update to the latest version of FCPX.
greatly appreciated.. thanks!
You’re welcome. Have fun and I’d love to see any projects you use with this.
Mille mercis. Thanks so much.
je t’en prie
bonjour je découvre petit a petit FCP x je bien suivi votre explication mais ca ne marche pas qu’un px m’explique comment l’installer sans pb merci
I don’t speak French very well but I think you said you’re having a problem. Can you tell me in English?
Bonjour
Je suis toujours surpris et heureux de connaître des gens généreux sur le web.
Tu en fais partie et en plus ta créativité est remarquable. Merci !!!
Merci de toutes vos bontés.
I’m always stunned and happy to know generous people on the web. You are part of that and your creativity is great. Thank you for that
You’re welcome. Thanks for the kind words. Be sure to sign up for my email newsletter because I plan to release more.
Thanks bro…this can make my video very more nicely..
You’re welcome. Is your video done? I’d love to check it out.
thanks so much for your free plugins – and please send me newsletter. cheers
You’re welcome. I added your email address to the newsletter. You should get a confirmation email. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks!
De nada!
Hello there,
Where do we place the download folders if we are using a mac? I am new to FCPX. Pls advice…
Hey K. I included installation instructions above. When you download files, they’ll most likely be in your Downloads folder.
Let me know if you need more help.
NEVERMIND. Works like a charm. THNX
Fantastic!
Excellent !!! Thank you so much for the time you spend to offer that. Great great job !!!
You’re welcome. I’m glad you enjoy them!
Thank you for this templates and lower thirds, i want to learn how use old templates of motion 3 in final cut
can you make a tutorial ?
Thank you
Have you tried opening the Motion file in Motion 5? Maybe you can send me the Motion 3 file and I may have time to convert it for you.
Thanks for this! I have some Motion 5 templates I want to convert into FCPX. I have added them as motion generators and I simply import them into FCP. Problem is, as soon as I use it in my timeline (before even using a drop zone) FCPX crashes! Do I need to somehow convert the Motion 5 template before using it in FCP? I am running the latest build of FCP.
You have to publish them from Motion to FCPX. Here is some help on how to do that.
http://help.apple.com/motion/mac/5.0/en/motion/usermanual/#chapter=11%26section=0
Thanks! Was wondering who the music was by…
Music is by a band I used to be in. We called ourselves The Flowbots and we played together 2003 to 2005. I was the DJ/scratcher.
Here’s our stuff on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheFlowbots
Thanks so much. It works perfectly
You’re welcome. If you use it in a video, I’d love to see it.
Thnkz a lot for this tittles
they are wonderful (:
You’re welcome!
Man! You rock!! awesome… Thank you!
You’re welcome. I’ve been known to rock out a few times. In fact I’m head banging while I type this message.
I usually don’t leave comments but wow, you did an AMAZING job, thank you!!!!!!!!
You’re welcome and thanks for taking the time to leave a comment.
thanks so much!!!!!
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You’re welcome Dany!
THanK You!!!!
You’re welcome Aaron.
nice work thank you.
You’re welcome!
Thanks for this it’s really great!
You’re welcome.
Thanks! They look great!
Yeah, these are cool and you can modify the colors as well.
I downloaded the pack unzipped it and followed the instructions, but every time I try it all I got is a blue empty screen. where did I go wrong?
What version of FCPX are you using?
Hi – When downloaded – you say to add to the movies>motion templates etc folder. Where is this folder located? Thanks
Go to your home folder and then Movies. Did that help?
Thanks, great work!
You’re welcome. Have a great weekend!
Great stuff, excellent. More please!
You’re welcome and I’m working on it!
Great titles! Is there anyway to shorten the duration? I tried using the decode but it’s too long. If I shorten it I lose the title and the speed change options are greyed out. Do I need to go back to Motion for that or can I do it in FCPX?
And thanks for all of the hard work.
Kara, thanks for your comment. Because these templates are designed to happen over a certain amount of time you’ll have to open them in Motion to change the timing. How are your Motion skills?
my Motion skills are not great, but I’ll give it a try. Any advice would be appreciated. And thanks again for making these.
Use the timeline canvas to change each layer’s duration.
Could you remove the “name here” and other annotations, so that the transitions can be used in video production that doesn’t use Final Cut Pro, such as the basic Windows Live Movie Maker? Thank you!
Sorry but these are made so that the editor can easily change the text in FCPX. You can open these in Motion and turn off the text layers and then export them as movies to use in Movie Maker.