Modify Final Cut Pro titles in Motion

Many of the titles included with Final Cut Pro were created using Motion, an Apple app designed to work with Final Cut Pro. You can open any of these titles in Motion, make modifications, and save the changes as a new title that you can access from the Titles and Generators sidebar.

Important: To modify a title in Motion, you must have Motion 5 installed on your computer.

To open the Titles and Generators sidebar, click the Titles and Generators button in the top-left corner of the Final Cut Pro window.
Do one of the following:
- Browse all titles: Click Titles in the sidebar to display the titles in the browser.
- Browse a single category of titles: Click a title category below Titles in the sidebar.
  To view the title categories, click the Titles disclosure triangle.
In the browser, Control-click the title you want to modify and choose “Open a copy in Motion.”
Motion opens, and the title’s project appears.
Modify the title’s project.
See the Motion User Guide.
Choose File > Save As (or press Shift-Command-S), enter a name for the new title (referred to as a Template in Motion), assign it to a category (or create a new category), choose a theme (if needed), and click Publish.
If you choose File > Save, the effect is saved using the same name, with “copy” appended to its end.

Note: If you have created or customized any Final Cut Pro effects, transitions, titles, or generators in Motion, set the storage location for your Motion content to In Library before starting any copy or move operations between libraries or storage devices. Otherwise, the Motion content is not included in those operations. See Manage Motion content in Final Cut Pro. Regardless, you must manually track and move any third-party (FxPlug) content, because it is not managed within the Final Cut Pro library.

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