As I was practicing for this tutorial, I created a 75 step animation. There is an almost unlimited number of things we could do to the transition itself. There’s no “right” answer, just drag this until the background has “presence,” but doesn’t overpower the foreground clips. Drag the bottom white slider to the left to darken the image… a lot.Select the Background group and apply Filters > Color > Levels. However, like many Apple backgrounds, it is way too bright.The goal with this effect is to make sure that in the brief time the background is visible it is obviously moving. NOTE: You will need to increase the Zoom slider. Unlike video, backgrounds can be stretched in all kinds of weird ways. Using the HUD, stretch the Grow/Shrink settings so that the image stretches vertically.NOTE: When dealing with backgrounds, it is often easier to apply effects to the containing group than the background element itself because many animated backgrounds are multi-component particle systems. Select the Background group in the Layers panel and apply Behavior > Basic Motion > Grow/Shrink.
In the Viewer, grab a blue corner dot and expand the background so it fills the frame.From Library > Content > Backgrounds, add the background of your choice by dragging it into the Background group.Make sure the Background group is checked on.
In our case, we want to replace the black color solid of the current background with something more interesting. NOTE: If all you want to do is make the background transparent, so that you could add your own background in FCP X, simply uncheck the Background group, then jump to the end of this tutorial to learn how to save it. Why a copy? Because we can’t modify the original effect from Apple, but we CAN modify copies. This opens a copy of the effect in Motion. Except… it would look better if it had a background and the flipping motion was in a different direction.Ĭontrol-click the Flip effect in the Transition Browser and choose Open a copy in Motion. Here, I’ve applied the Flip transition to two clips.
Generally, though, 3rd-party effects are locked and not modifiable. NOTE: This process is the same for all FCP X Transitions, Generators and Titles. So, as a general example, let me show you how this works. As we talked, I realized that his problems could probably be fixed by editing the transitions in Motion.
Brian recently wrote about problems he was having with transitions in Final Cut.
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