Text swap effect or plugin

I'm trying to recreate the text effect used at :22 of this video: vimeo.com/125352948

I know it should be fairly simple, but just wondering if anyone could suggest an existing plugin.

Well, there are many ways to do this effect. Essentially you want to mask the changing text with a feathered mask so that when you animate it going down, it feathers into being transparent. At the same time you have another text element that moves down into its own feathered mask to become visible. Pretty straight forward. Here are three options.

1. Use Motion to do this very simply and easily. Create a group that contains all of your text that will be moving. Add the feathered mask to the group. Animate your text out and in as you like and it will all appear and disappear like you want.

2. Buy a plugin for FCPX (like Fast Mask) to do this same thing inside FCPX. It's a bit more clunky to keyframe in FCPX but you can make it work.

3. Use what comes with FCPX to do it (with a little working around). The main problem with the built in mask effects in FCPX are that they move along with the layer (in this case, the text) so when the text moves down it stays inside the mask and therefore it stays visible. I was able to make it work using the "graduated mask" effect by key framing the center and amount sliders so that the mask moves over the text as the text moves down. Like I said, it's a bit of a workaround but you don't need a plugin to accomplish it.

I hope that helped.

---> Jarrod

JarrodMFay wrote: .. Use Motion to do this very simply and easily. Create a group that contains all of your text that will be moving. Add the feathered mask to the group. Animate your text out and in as you like and it will all appear and disappear like you want....

when you watch closely, the text rotates around an anchor-point, slightly 'behind' the text ...



but indeed, easy in Motion, not aware, there's a plugin for such a '3D flip in out'-effect ...........

Oh yeah. That's true, I had missed that. So basically the anchor points of the "revolving" text elements are set to a negative Z value and then those elements are rotated out (or in). Then the feathered mask on the group gives the disappear or appear effect. I guess you would just have to do this in Motion.

---> Jarrod

Just to clarify would this be an image mask? Or some other type of mask? My Motion skills are rusty... www.fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/...r-plugin/reply/79991

Also, I'm assuming I'd have to make this a 3D project to do the rotation trick?

.... not yet done, project is stilll 'under construction', therfore not in the plugin-section of this board:




... and I somehow managed to made it a 'generator' instead of a 'title' :blink: (???)

no installer, so, dl and unzip and manually drop it into ~/Movies/Motion templates/generators...

hope to fix it, then avail in the plugin depository ...

Amazing- thank you for taking the time! Does this allow for the text to roll down or only up? And can I add additional text so that it rotates through 3 or more?

I suppose I can just edit the generator, eh?

Thanks again!

truelife2 wrote: …Does this allow for the text to roll down or only up? And can I add additional text so that it rotates through 3 or more? …

givin' an inch, you take an ell ... hahaha! :silly:

no, actually 'just' swapping word 1 with word 2 ... in one direction - but nice suggestions for a v1.1.

truelife2 wrote: …...
I suppose I can just edit the generator, eh?
…

sure!
it's a quick'n dirty slammed together version, so not everything is properly named & perhaps a few German words ... but no rocket science ...

Don't forget to publish and share here your final version, with variable speeds, selectable ease-in/out, txt-list import, blinkin' light effects, and optional toon-like squeeze'n move :evil:

(kiddin'!!)

Absolutely- grateful for your help! Just brainstorming ideas!