Creating a lower third for FCP X
Sometimes you may want to use something from Motion in one of your FCP X projects. It's very common to have projects where we need to utilize the same text design across the project making slight tweaks to it along the way. This exercise is a preview to Chapter 11, Publishing your Work to FCP X, which goes into much greater detail about publishing and rigging your work for FCP X.
Getting ready
Under the exercise folder for this chapter, open the 05_12 project. Play back the project. A lower third moves from offscreen to onscreen while some placeholder text fades in. It then stays static and disappears offscreen again. What you may not see is that it's set up to be used in FCP X. If you take a look at the project extension right above the Canvas, you'll notice it's a .moti file. When creating this project, I chose to save it as Final Cut Title in order to have it available in FCP X'S media browser.
How to do it...
Let's get a closer look at this project.
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