How to make title like this

Hey

how do i make this kind of title shown at 0:05

You mean the foot hiding the title? That's a simple animated matte. For very short and easy effects like the one in the video you can use the bezier mask tool with manual keyframing in Motion 5, or you can use the third-party Slice X/Mocha plugin in FCP X.

Here's how to in Motion:

Add the title on top of your clip



Duplicate the clip and put the duplicate on top of your title



Use the bezier mask tool on the duplicate clip to mask out the element(s) you want to see in front of the title



Animate the matte with manual keyframing or with the tracking system in Motion




- Ronny

Ah! sweet ronny!

I'll try it out. I just started editing and getting used to FCPX

Ron, i seem to have trouble. i might need exact help..I'm using this clip here: the biker passes the camera





I tried to make this title (which i could make in FCPX because of the angle mask thing:







this is the mask i was talking about which i could easily manouver to angle with the road, but i couldnt' do it in Motion which i want to do.



my vision for this clip is that the bike will ride OVER the title: like the foot in the youtube video i posted in the beginning, I know i'm gunna have to frame by frame mask but I just odn't know where to start and i'm confused with motion 5.. barely any experience at all!

I'm basically trying to achieve the this effect!

@0:06 where the title is behind all the objects that can be moving or still!

Ah, I see. The title looks very nice and you have a good sense for perspective.

But what you want to do with the bike is not obvious at all. A leg or a foot or even a complete person is quite easy to mask out because they are solid objects. A bike has many transparent and curved moving elements like the inside of the wheels, so it is much more difficult to mask. This will be very hard to do in FCP X, even with Slice X+Mocha. But maybe there is an easier solution...

Here's a suggestion: can you send me the original clip via We Transfer or Airbridge? Then I can have a closer look at it to see if there are other and easier ways to extract the bike. I really need to see the moving clip in full quality for this. Then I can guide you through the process step by step, or I can just do it for you.

- Ronny

Thanks Ron,
but yeah, i figured it'd be very tedious, assuming i'd have to mask it frame by frame.
it doesn't have to be the wheels then, lets say the body of the biker will mask out a title which is in the mid screen instead of the perspective title on the road. i just want to learn how to be able to mask,even if its just like the gopro video above!

i'll send you via airbridge. whats your email?

thanks that you're up to jsut doign it for me but i'd love to learn how to so that I can also teach someone in the future like ya are!

Okay, then I will make a step-by-step video tutorial so you can learn how to do this yourself.

You can send the file to ronnycourtens(at)mac(dot)com

- Ronny

thanks ron, its being sent right now

first time using airbridge but heres the link the gave me. I also sent it to ur email

mab.to/LclBUcTxE

Than you. I have downloaded the clip and will be looking at it later today.

- Ronny

I believe you could try a luma key instead, check out the technique here:

I couldn't see all your images in this post for some reason, but I was able to download the clip (Thanks for posting) and make a quick version of the effect with the build in keyed.

Here is a video walking you through the process with your clip (it might still be processing, give it a few minutes if it doesn't play)



You would need to tweak the key a bit, and perhaps even add multiple layers to ensure you get all the spokes, but no need to do any frame by frame work.

Tim beat me to this

But I'm glad we had the same idea, which means it works. Here's a similar tutorial on how to use the standard keyer inside FCP X to achieve what you want (no Motion 5 nor keyframe animation involved):

vimeo.com/101719583

And if you want to do something much faster and simpler, albeit a different effect, you can use a simple wipe:

vimeo.com/101706521

- Ronny

These tutorials from Tim and Ronny are both excellent.

I may add a note as an old man who was used to work with paper, pencils, pins and all this stuff people don't know the names today.

There is a little old fashion thing you can do for the title itself. FCP X doesn't support any real perspective without plugins.
But you can somehow mimic it.
Find a picture where some "plain horizontal to endless" lines can be detected. Copy this image.
For the below I used Adobe Illustrator, cause I own it and familiar with it. You also can use Preview and draw strokes following these lines, but it will cost more time.
In case of the published example the perspective focus will look like below.



Now copy the resulting image into you timeline. Use "Overlay" as composite mode



Now you can adjust the distortion matching the simple grid.
Then follow those instructions Ronny and Tim gave.



Switch of the "perspective clip" and render.


- Andreas

tpayton wrote: I believe you could try a luma key instead, check out the technique here:

tpayton, i tried it & did it..mate it's a brilliant alternative to motion tacking.

Or use Motion, make a line a replicator, set the actor point, spread them out. Wonder if that could be made into a Perspective Guide generator template in Motion? Seems I just got my weekend project to do...

I slapped this together as an graphics tool. A generator template that gives you a fanned out perspective grid, adjustable, to help line up simple, single vanishing points. Installation and usage instructions in the READ ME file.
Click here to download.