Animated Callouts + 12 Free Templates

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Very nice, excellent animations, I like that!

Have you considered to transform it into a regular title-plugin, nice dropdown menus for design-options, on-screen-controls for positioning et al?


And:
#1 asks for an 'Alan Walker.mp3' which, for sure, is not included ... you should fix that.-

Ooops! Thank you for letting me know! I've fixed the #1 error.

I'd love to transform it into a regular title-plugin like you said, but I am actually still learning how to use Motion 5, and have no idea how to do that.

Would you mind teaching me how to transform it into a title-plugin? I'll be very appreciated!

gracias20 wrote: … Would you mind teaching me how to transform it into a title-plugin? I'll be very appreciated!

well, teaching, still a learner either (you find my plugins here at fcp.co) ... in the Tutorial sectionof this board, a real master, f.mahoney, publishes tuts about the mysteries of OSC, ... but it needs a while to understand that in toto ... I needed quiet a time, still scratching my head :lol:

Later, I'll upload here a 'customized' version of one of your call-outs here (if this is ok for you?) - you can then study it and perhaps copy/paste some stuff ....

so, here we go ...
Your CallOut as a FCPX Title plugin ...




Two things to focus on:
• there's an OnScreenController to position the title
• and there are a few published parameters, so the editor has the main settings at hand...

How did I do that?
In M5, I choose New Title Project

out-of-the-box, is a backgound dropzone = when you drop the title onto some clip, the clip will be shown
And a generic title - we don't need that, deleted.

There are your 3 elements/groups, I put all into a new group called 'everything'

And a new group called OSC; how ro create an OSC is best explained in F.Mahoneys tut about Mysteries of OSCs.
I slavishly followed his advice: applied the Poke filter, gave the group a length and a fixed resultion.




Then, in the Inspector of the 'Everything' group, I add the X-coordinate a Link behaviour: linked to the OSC group.
Same for Y-position.

Finally, check Pokes OSC is set to publish, for 'cosmetics' I published the two titles, and the x-positon of the tiny corner element (to adjust it to the title).
And, finally, to demo that Link is not only for numbers/coordinates, I linked the color of the dot and the dotted line; so, changing the dots color automatically changes the lines too ...

The 'pimped' version of your CallOut is attached here, after dl/unzip you can install it in ~/Movies/Motion Templates/Titles.
Or, to learn how it's done, open it with Motion5.
Tried to give everything a useful English name.....

If you have further questions, post here

Very nice design and great tutorial on how you made them.

Wow thank you soooo much, Karsten! This is really helpful!

These callouts are very nice and I'm trying to make them as FCPX titles following the tutorial by Karsten.

I think that there is an important thing that could be added but I don't know how.

The ability to move the line and the starting dot of the callout around the text so you can point it where you want.

So you'll have 2 OSC, one for the text and one for the dot+line.

Very good job anyway. Thanks!
Alex

alexthecat wrote: …I think that there is an important thing that could be added but I don't know how.

The ability to move the line and the starting dot of the callout around the text so you can point it where you want.
…

tried that, following f.mahoney advice in Miracles of OSCS/Shapes - but somehow, my Motion got corrupted, see my post about Shapepoint not tracked when airbrushed (???)...

theoretically:
• create inside the Everything group another OSCgroup/Poke2
• link the callOutHead position to that Poke2 => you can move the dot byits own OSC
• apply Track point behavior to leaderline, select callOutHead as 'tracker', select joint#1 to move ....

.. in theory, that should work.
Practically it doesn't , at last here.... something kaputt ...

fingers crossed, fox' join the party .........................

...just as Proof-of-Concept (not as beautiful as the original):

you can apply two OSCs, one for moving the title, one for moving the shape/callOutHead + line





And contrary to my post about a Bug with 'Airbrushed shapes':
with lotsof trickery&tweaking I made a dotted line ... kinda ...

Great! I think we are close. Can you share your template? Do you think that is possible to apply to the original templates your upgrade or is better to star from scratch?

Tnks!
Alex

alexthecat wrote: …Do you think that is possible to apply to the original templates your upgrade or is better to star from scratch?...

hmm, in my experience, copy/pasting OSCs and esp. Link behaviours 'confuse' Motion... no good. Better to start from scratch.

Don't forget to add 'mandatory markers'!

Attached the Two-OSC demo with lots of trickery to create a solid-dotted line :woohoo:
Lacks all the nice design elements of the original....
Maybe I find the time and calmness to make a final version... if done, I publish it in the plugin section .....

happy tinkering!

A reversed version of these 12 callouts is now available for you to download for free guys :silly: :