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Your Favorites folder will now contain copies of the Titles you copied and pasted. Or you can Option drag your Titles selection in to your Favorites folder. Then open your new Favorites folder, right click inside of it and choose 'Paste Item' (or use the shortcut Cmd - V or from the FCP X Edit menu choose 'Paste'). You can Command Click to select Titles that are not next to each other (non-contiguous) or in different folders.

Inside the Titles category folders, select the Title folders that you'd like to make Favorites, right click on this selection and choose 'Copy' (or use the shortcut Cmd - C or from the FCP X Edit menu choose 'Copy'). In the Finder window in List view, open the folders of the Titles categories by clicking on their twirl down arrows. If the Title you want as a Favorite is from a 3rd party developer or a stock FCP X Title that you customized in Motion and saved, in the Finder go to the user > Movies > Motion Templates > Titles folder. Go through FCP X's Titles and write down the names of the Titles and in which categories they are located.

#FINAL CUT PRO SHORTCUT CHEAT SHEET MAC OSX#

However if you are more adventurous, are comfortable navigating in the Mac OSX Finder and you'd like to add multiple Titles as Favorites without going through Motion one at a time, there are two ways to do it.įirst, in Final Cut Pro X, you should identify which Titles you would like to save as Favorites. This save one at a time method might be all that you need to create and save your Favorites. This Finder location (user > Movies > Motion Templates > Titles) is one of the places where Final Cut Pro X looks for 3rd party Titles, Transitions, Effects and Generators as well as stock FCP X Titles you customize in FCP X. moti extension of Motion/FCP X Titles is from Motion Title. You will save the Title with copy, copy 1, etc. If you do a 'Save' versus a 'Save as.' in Motion, you will not get the options to customize the name of the Title or create a new Favorites category. You could alternatively just directly create a Titles Favorites folder in this location in the Finder. This process will create a Titles Favorites category back in FCP X's Title Browser in which will be your new Favorite Title.Ī new Favorites Folder will also be created in your user > Movies > Motion Templates > Titles folder in the Finder. Using this technique you can make Favorites of some 3rd party Titles and stock FCP X Titles one at a time. You do not have to customize your Title to save it as a Favorite. This new Favorites Category will now be available via the Category drop down menu for any Title you open in Motion when you 'Save As.'. In the Name of new category field type 'Favorites'. Here I named my Title 'Assembler Custom' in the Template Name field. In Motion go to the File menu and choose 'Save As.'.Ī Motion menu will appear asking you to enter a name for the Final Cut Pro Title and choose which folder to keep it. Here you can customize the Title if you'd like. In Motion, the Assembler Title opens in the Timeline. In this case, I chose the stock FCP X Title 'Assembler'. Select a Title that you would like to save as a Favorite, right click on it and choose 'Open a copy in Motion' from the pop up menu. In FCP X, open the Titles Browser on the upper right hand side of the Timeline. These same techniques should work for Effects, Generators and Transitions as well.

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In this article I will go over three techniques that explain how to create and save Titles into a Titles Favorites category in FCP X's Title Browser, like the picture below. I'm running FCP X on Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8. But until then, there are a few ways to make Favorites despite FCP X's current omission. I'm hoping that the FCP X team adds this feature with a future update.

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Twitter now, even with the recent Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 update, there is no way to select a Title, Effect, Transition or Generator and save it directly as a Favorite.

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