#Add text final cut pro generator#
#Add text final cut pro pro#

I’ll press my home key, jump my playhead to the beginning of the timeline and I’ll press Command V to paste that generator.

#Add text final cut pro generator#

We’ll go ahead and close the animation editor, make sure the generator is selected, then press Command C to copy. Notice as I scrub the playhead over the generator, this clip has a master fade layer for all the layers below it. As you can see from this graphic, the fade starts and 0 and ends at 100 or 100% black. We want the generator to fade in so grabbing the fade handle, I’m going to drag all the way over to the right. Here you have fade handles at either side of the generator. Select the generator and press Control V, then open the opacity parameter by double clicking on the bar at the lower part of the animation editor. Notice as I skim over the graphic and I get to the graphic, when I get to the generator, it cuts to black. We simply need to open the generators browser, locate a solid and press Q to connect the solid at the top of the graphic stack, honoring the in and out points we set. So you can better see what’s going on, I’m going to zoom in by pressing Command + a few times. Notice the out point is already set at the end of the project. That will move the playhead back exactly 12 frames, I’m going to set an end point by pressing I. With the playhead already parked at the end of the timeline, I’m going to tap minus 12 enter. In this case, I’ve decided that I want a 12 frame fade out, half a second. My playhead is already parked at the end of the timeline and before you create the fade, you need to decide how long you want to make the fade.

There’s a much better way and I call it “One Fade to Rule Them All” and it involves using a solid generator. I’ll go ahead and undo those last three steps. But as you see, this can be quite time consuming and if you have alot of layers, say more than I have here, this could be quite tedious. Now you could select each individual clips end point and press Command T to add a dissolve at the end of each graphic. As I skim over it, you can see it’s a text build and we want to fade out all of those text graphics at once. Let me show you how, it’s awesome! Here’s a stack of graphics that make up an end title. If you have a stack of video layers or graphics and you need them to all fade out or fade in at once, you can use a single generator to accomplish this. In this episode, I’m going to show you one of my favorite time saving tricks of all-time.

#Add text final cut pro pro#

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