From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Titles and Effects

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Working with credits

Working with credits

- [Instructor] So let's add some credit-based text to our project. So I'm here in chapter 1.7 that I can find in my chapter one folder in my projects events; and I went ahead to my titles and generators sidebar. Underneath that sidebar, within titles, is a credits category, and there are three main types of credits: scrolling, slate, trailer. Along with a bunch of other credits that could potentially be broken down into themes. Let's start off actually with the slate title generator that you see here. I'm going to select it and just add it to the beginning of my project. And with it selected I'm going to press CMD + 4 to bring up the Inspector. I'm going to head over to the title inspector where I have a number of published parameters that I can adjust. First thing is the number of lines or elements here you see that we can give information about our episode, our show. So if I wanted just a few lines of text, I could make that let's say two lines, and all that would show up is the…

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