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Pulling in text file as titling data – possible?
As a weekly edit, I have a project with title cards that change. In AE, there was a way to pull in the titling data (name, title) from a text file using expressions. Is there a way to make use of an external file as titling data in either FCPX or the new Motion yet?
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It is completely possible, it would just take a little work. FCPXML files are very easy to generate and modify as they are human readable text files. However, you will still need motion.
First create a Motion Title just like you want it. (This is needed because the current FCPXML format doesn’t retain text modifications in FCPX) Then save that as a Title for FCPX. Put that in a new project, set a duration and and export the project as a FCPXML.
Now using that as a template you could swap out the text (for example if you had Filemaker you could create an application that could create a whole bunch of titles in seconds). When you are done just drag the newly created FCPXML into FCP on the doc and it will create a new project with the titles that you could copy and paste into your project.
Here is a simple FCPXML to get you started:
Let me know if you need any more assistance.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I see what you’re saying – thank you for also including an example file 🙂 Having never opened a FCPX/Motion file before, I had no idea how clean the XML was inside. I was expecting a tangled mess….
John McClary
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Well the Motion files are a tangled mess. FCPXML is a beautiful thing.
Well a beautiful thing with a few missing pieces. 😉
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque
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