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Adjust titles – Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.1.2) User Manual

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Chapter 9

Add transitions, titles, effects, and generators 

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In the Viewer, double-click the title text, and type text for your title.

Double-click the text box

to type text for the title.

Next Text Layer button

Previous Text Layer button

4

To select a different text object, do one of the following:

Click the Previous Text Layer or Next Text Layer button.

Double-click a different text object.

5

Type new text as necessary.

6

To exit text editing, press Command-Return.

Note: The Previous Text Layer and Next Text Layer buttons also support Motion text edit markers.
For more information, see Motion Help at

http://help.apple.com/motion

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Adjust titles

You can edit text in the Viewer, and adjust a title’s text appearance using the Title and Video
inspectors. For example, you can adjust a title’s opacity or modify the text’s font, alignment, color,
glow, and drop shadow.

Edit title text

1

Double-click a title clip in the Timeline.

2

Do one of the following:

Double-click a text object in the Viewer.

Select the text in the Text inspector.

3

Edit the text.

4

To exit text editing, press Command-Return.

Adjust a title’s position onscreen

1

Select a title clip in the Timeline.

2

Move the playhead over the selected title clip.

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