Slowing down title animations in FCPX

I'm trying to slow down the "Assembler" build in/out title. Can't seem to find an easy way to do this. The re-time function is greyed out. I would like the text to fly in at a slower rate.

In the timeline, stretch your title to make it longer (slower) or shorter (faster).

I tried this, but it didn't seem to slow down the animation of the titles flying it. Everything still appeared at the same rate. For example, 2 seconds into the title everything has already appeared. I want to stretch that time out.

Yeah, this won't work for all titles, depending on how they were built. If you are handy with Motion, it shouldn't be a big deal to open the title in Motion and make your speed changes there, then just re-publish to FCPX.

Any tips for doing this in Motion? I'm not very familiar with it. I opened it in Motion, but I couldn't seem to find out how to adjust speed.

Not sure I can walk you thru that in a short time. Depends also on what title you're dealing with, but if you look at the timeline area where your elements are placed, you should be able to drag them out slowing the speed. If you move the whole bar that represents the element in question you will be affecting how soon or late it appears on screen.

Maybe experiment a bit with moving things around and see how that is impacting your playback.

Otherwise, let me know what title you're using and I see if I can have a look at it tonight or tomorrow.

I will Take a Look at the Project later on wie. I get some Time but try to adjustier the keyframes of the Animation in the keyframe viewer (command 7).

Scrubs to the rescue :woohoo:

The Assembler project is bild with Behaviors and co. I can create a rigged project but it would be faster if you can let me know how long the build in/out should take.

dgwvideo, I guess so... or not!

Hmm I don't really have a specific time. I was hoping I could mess around with it and see what looked best. Appreciate the offer though. I really want to learn this stuff, so I don't want it to be done for me. Pointed in the right direction (as far as what to modify in Motion) would be most helpful.

FCPGuy wrote: The Assembler project is bild with Behaviors and co. I can create a rigged project but it would be faster if you can let me know how long the build in/out should take.

dgwvideo, I guess so... or not!

Unless I missed something since the release, you can not Rig keyframes over time.
yup always here to help.

scottyd wrote: Hmm I don't really have a specific time. I was hoping I could mess around with it and see what looked best. Appreciate the offer though. I really want to learn this stuff, so I don't want it to be done for me. Pointed in the right direction (as far as what to modify in Motion) would be most helpful.

Yes the project uses Behaviors which is easy to modify. Right click the Title in the Titles Browser and Open in Motion.
Just adjust the length the behavior in the corresponding track to slow down the speed of the animation. Or move them down the timeline but you will also have to adjust the in and outs of the individual "clips or objects".
Keep in mind when publishing it back into FCPX you might want to adjust your build in and out markers.

Here is a screenshot, if you have any other question post them here!

Thank you Scrubelicious. I got it to slow down quite a bit by dragging out the motion path and moving each element down the timeline causing each to come in one after another instead of all at once. My question is how does the build in and out time work? What does it do and what is the middle marker (poster frame?) for?

Scotty, have you tried just putting Assembler in a Compound Clip, then slowing down the Compound Clip playback? It work, I'm just not sure if it's exactly what you want. 

Great advice in this thread. I was just wondering if maybe the easiest solution is to make a copy of the title template in Motion and only remove the marker(s). Because the first marker sets that the timing of any behaviour or keyframes to the left (beginning) doesn’t change regardless of length of the title in your FCP project. If you remove that marker and publish the title under its own name the time of all behaviours and/or keyframes will be adjusted in relation to the overall length of the title in the FCP project. This will then result in what you’re trying to do: lengthen the build in time by lengthening the total title duration. 
The idea behind these markers is that they make it possible to protect the timing of behaviours and keyframes regardless of length of the title so if you remove them the protection disappears. 

Carsten Orlt wrote: ...If you remove that marker and publish the title under its own name the time of all behaviours and/or keyframes will be adjusted in relation to the overall length of the title in the FCP project.... 

Tested & confirmed! Thanks, Carsten. If the markers are wanted, you could go in and make each behavior longer, but, as mentioned above, timing still wouldn't be adjustable from within FCPx as it is with Carsten's suggestion.

This is a 9 year old thread that I hardly even remember making. Forgot I subscribed to new replies. Not even sure what I ended up doing.