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Integrating Titles and Broadcast Design Elements During Editing
Most editors begin integrating titles and broadcast design elements into their projects
during the offline edit. In some cases these clips are temporary placeholders, and in other
cases the final titles are created right away. If your program requires animated design
elements or effects, Final Cut Studio provides two environments in which these can be
created.
• You can use Final Cut Pro to create titles, effects, and animation using generators, filters,
composite modes, and Motion tab settings, all without leaving your editing environment.
For more information, see the Final Cut Pro documentation.
• Motion has all of those features and more—including advanced text design tools, 3D
compositing, particle systems, motion tracking, paint, and masks—and is easily
integrated with other Final Cut Studio applications.
If your needs are more specialized than either of these applications can accommodate,
you can also create graphics and animation in third-party applications and export them
into one of a number of compatible formats for import into your project. For more
information, see:
• “Using Design Elements from Motion”
• “Using Graphics and Animation Files from Other Applications”
Using Design Elements from Motion
Although Final Cut Pro has many built-in compositing and animation features, Motion
offers many more tools and capabilities for creating sophisticated broadcast design
graphics and animation. The Motion application’s behavior-driven animation, Curve Editor
for complicated keyframe editing, advanced text design tools, particle systems, replicator,
2D and 3D compositing tool set, and other features are ideal for the experimentation and
refinement that creative design requires.
Final Cut Pro and Motion are closely integrated, making it easy to incorporate titles and
design at any stage of your editorial process. For more information, see the Final Cut Pro
and Motion documentation.
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