From the course: Learning Typography for Video Editors

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Final Cut Pro text tools

Final Cut Pro text tools

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Final Cut Pro text tools

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- [Instructor] So unlike Premiere Pro, Final Cut does not have a Type tool where you type directly on a screen. What you do is you start from a template and then you alter it from there. All of the title templates can be found here under the Titles and Generators sidebar. And you'll see that under the Titles section are a series of subcategories that give you type for all different types and purposes. Some of my favorite include some of the titles in the Build In/Build Out category where you get some automatic character-by-character animation at the beginning and end of your text. Let's actually grab this Continuous text. I'm gonna bring it into a Final Cut project. You can just grab this title and drag it and it's gonna be a connected clip. But one of my favorite methods, especially if you want you title to be the exact same length, say, of your clip here in the timeline, is to select the clip, press X to mark it. If you select the title and then press Q, you'll notice that the title…

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