Add transitions, titles, effects, and generators – Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.0.9) User Manual
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Transitions, titles, effects, and generators overview
You can easily add special effects to video, audio, and photos in your projects. Final Cut Pro
provides several kinds of effects and controls:
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Transitions: Add an effect between clips to control how they change from one to the next. See
on page 205.
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Titles: Use to add text at any point in your project. See
on page 213.
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Effects: Use to do a wide variety of things to your video and audio clips, from subtle (add film
grain or a color effect to the video, or a graphic equalizer to the audio) to not so subtle (add
droplet ripples or an insect-eye view to the video, or apply an exaggerated pitch shift to the
audio). There are two main types of effects:
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Built-in effects: Use these standard effects to resize, move, rotate, trim, skew, crop, or apply
the Ken Burns zooming effect to a video clip. These effects are already part of each Timeline
clip—you just need to adjust them. See
on page 219.
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Clip effects: Use these effects to change your video and audio clips to either correct issues or
create stunning new looks or sounds. See
on page 231.
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Generators: Add a special element like a placeholder clip, a timecode generator, or a
countdown timer, or add colors, patterns, or animated backgrounds to your project. See
on page 237.
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Onscreen controls: Customize many of your effects using onscreen controls. See
on page 242.
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Video Animation: Vary effect settings as a clip plays. See
on page 247.
Effects can be added to any clips in the Timeline. Once they have been added (or in the case of
built-in effects, adjusted), you can customize the effects using controls in an inspector, onscreen
controls in the Viewer, and controls in the Video Animation Editor and Audio Animation Editor.
You can also try out multiple versions of an effect using auditions.
Most of the effects and generators can be opened in Motion, an Apple application designed to
work with Final Cut Pro, where you can customize and save specialized versions of them.
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