How To Animate Text Final Cut Pro

Format caption text in Final Cut Pro

You can change the style and formatting of caption text using the inspector. The CEA-608, iTT, and SRT explanation standards have varying specifications for text, placement, color, transitions, and so on.

The viewer and the Caption inspector showing caption text formatting controls

Format the text in CEA-608 captions

Select one or more than CEA-608 caption clips in the Terminal Cut Pro timeline.
To open the Caption inspector, exercise 1 of the following:
- Choose Window > Show in Workspace > Inspector (or press Command-four).
- Click the Inspector button on the right side of the toolbar.
The Caption inspector appears, showing explanation text formatting controls for the CEA-608 format.
If you lot selected a single caption and want to format just a portion of it, select the portion of the explanation text that you desire to format in the Text field.
To select an alignment style for captions with multiple lines of text, click an Alignment button.

You tin center the text or align it to the left or right.
To place captions within the commanded area in the video frame, click a Placement button.

You can move the caption left, correct, up, or down; move the explanation to the left, right, superlative, or bottom margin; and center the explanation horizontally.
To set up the mode of transitions between captions, click the Display Style pop-upward menu and cull an option:
- Pop-On: No transition (a simple cut between captions).
- Paint-On: Starting with the topmost line of text, each line of text in the explanation is revealed from left to right, i at a fourth dimension.
- Whorl-Upwards: Each line of text in the explanation is revealed at the bottom of the screen using the Pigment-On fashion, and is so animated upward to brand room for the next line of text.
  
  If you choose the Roll-Up way, a Lines popular-up bill of fare appears. Cull how many lines of text to show at once in the Curl-Up fashion: two, three, or 4 lines.
  
  If a series of abutting captions are set to either the Pigment-On or the Gyre-Upwardly style, their edit points in the timeline become through edits, indicating that the captions will interact. In the example beneath, all the captions are set to the Roll-Up mode. The second explanation will button the first caption up, the third caption volition push the 2d caption up, and and then on. You can make coil edits on the through edit points to precisely control when the adjacent explanation begins to announced.
To modify caption text to the italic or underline fashion, click a Formatting button.
To modify the color of caption text, click a Text Color button.

Yous tin can select one of eight predefined colors.
To gear up the opacity of the caption text background, click a Text Groundwork Opacity button.

You can make the groundwork transparent, semitransparent, or opaque.
To gear up the caption text background color, click a Text Groundwork Color push button.

You tin select i of 8 predefined colors.

At the bottom of the Caption inspector, y'all can view information well-nigh the selected explanation or captions:

Timing: Displays beginning and end times and duration if you selected a single caption.
Validation: Displays an error message if the choice does not adjust to the specifications of the CEA-608 caption format, or displays a green checkmark if no problems are detected.

Note: Styling and formatting caption text can add invisible formatting tags, which may cause captions to exceed the limit of 32 characters per line.

Format the text in iTT captions

Select one or more iTT caption clips in the Final Cutting Pro timeline.
To open the Caption inspector, practice one of the following:
- Choose Window > Bear witness in Workspace > Inspector (or press Command-4).
- Click the Inspector button on the right side of the toolbar.
The inspector appears, showing explanation text formatting controls for the iTT format.
If yous selected a unmarried caption and want to format merely a portion of it, select the portion of the caption text that you lot want to format in the Caption Text field.
To modify caption text to the bold, italic, or underline mode, click a Formatting button.
To change the color of explanation text, click the Text Colour color well to open the Colors window, or click the down arrow to open up a pop-upward color palette.

Encounter Bones color controls in Last Cut Pro and Use the pop-up color palette in Final Cutting Pro.
To place captions at the top or bottom of the video frame, click a Placement push.

For certain languages with vertical writing, the iTT format allows vertical text on the left and correct margins, likewise equally up to four regions of text on the screen at the aforementioned fourth dimension (peak, bottom, left, and correct).

At the bottom of the Caption inspector, y'all can view information about the selected caption or captions:

Timing: Displays start and end times and duration if y'all selected a single caption.
Validation: Displays an error bulletin if the pick does not suit to the specifications of the iTT caption format, or displays a green checkmark if no bug are detected.

Format the text in SRT captions

Of import: Because of the absence of text formatting specifications in the SRT standard, whatsoever formatting style (such every bit bold, italic, or underline) that you lot use to SRT captions in Final Cutting Pro may not appear correctly in your intended role player or playback device. For this reason, yous can choose to remove all text formatting from SRT captions when you export or share them. See Consign captions with Last Cut Pro.

Select i or more SRT caption clips in the Terminal Cut Pro timeline.
To open the Explanation inspector, do i of the following:
- Cull Window > Show in Workspace > Inspector (or press Command-4).
- Click the Inspector push button on the right side of the toolbar.
The inspector appears, showing explanation text formatting controls for the SRT format.
If you selected a single caption and want to format merely a portion of it, select the portion of the explanation text that y'all want to format in the Explanation Text field.
To change caption text to the bold, italic, or underline style, click a Formatting push button.
To change the colour of caption text, click the Text Colour color well to open the Colors window, or click the down arrow to open a pop-up color palette.

See Bones color controls in Last Cut Pro and Use the pop-up colour palette in Final Cut Pro.

At the bottom of the Caption inspector, you can view information well-nigh the selected caption or captions:

Timing: Displays beginning and end times and duration if you selected a single caption.
Validation: Displays an error message if the selection does not adapt to the specifications of the SRT caption format, or displays a green checkmark if no bug are detected.

Salve or utilize the default style

Select one or more caption clips in the Final Cut Pro timeline.
To open the Explanation inspector, exercise one of the following:
- Choose Window > Bear witness in Workspace > Inspector (or press Command-4).
- Click the Inspector button on the correct side of the toolbar.
In the Caption inspector, click the pop-upward card to the far correct of the Display heading and choose i of the following:
- Save Style as Default: Saves the current text style equally the default setting.
- Apply Default Style: Applies the default text style to the selected captions.
- Reset Default Style: Resets the default text style to the original setting.

Add multiple text fields to CEA-608 captions

You tin split a CEA-608 caption into multiple fields. For example, if ii people are speaking at the same time, you tin can create a text field for each speaker. Each explanation can have up to four fields, and you lot tin format each field independently of the others.

CEA-608 captions are limited to four lines, but yous can distribute the lines in whatever combination. For case, a caption could have iii lines in 1 field and 1 line in a 2d field, or it could accept four fields with ane line each.

Select a CEA-608 caption clip in the Final Cut Pro timeline.
To open the Caption inspector, do one of the following:
- Choose Window > Testify in Workspace > Inspector (or press Command-4).
- Click the Inspector push button on the correct side of the toolbar.
Click the pop-up menu to the far correct of the Caption Text heading, so choose Add together Text Field.
Enter text for the 2nd field in the additional Caption Text section that appears in the inspector.

Every bit y'all type, the text appears in a new field in the viewer.
To position the new text field in the video frame, click a Placement button.
Use the text formatting controls in the Brandish section to arrange the wait of the text in the new field.

See Format the text in CEA-608 captions.
To add additional text fields, repeat steps 3 through 6.

To remove a text field, click the pop-upwards menu to the far correct of the Caption Text heading for that field, and so choose Remove Text Field.

Add special characters to CEA-608 captions

You can add special characters (such as the trademark symbol or the degree symbol) to CEA-608 captions.

Select a CEA-608 caption clip in the Final Cut Pro timeline.
To open the Caption inspector, do one of the following:
- Choose Window > Prove in Workspace > Inspector (or press Control-4).
- Click the Inspector button on the right side of the toolbar.
In the Caption inspector, position the insertion point in the Text field where you desire the special character to appear.
Click the pop-upwards card to the far right of the Caption Text heading, choose Special Characters, then choose the character from the submenu.