How To Install Generators In Final Cut Pro

Intro to generators in Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro includes a number of video clips called generators that you lot can use to add the following elements to your project:

Placeholder content: If your project is missing content that hasn't nevertheless been shot or delivered, yous tin add a placeholder clip. The placeholder generator allows yous to add a prune to the timeline with a suitable silhouette to represent the missing content. Encounter Add placeholders in Concluding Cut Pro.
Timecode counter: You lot can add a generated timecode prune to your project to superimpose a timecode counter over part or all of the projection. See Add timecode counters in Final Cut Pro.
Shape prune: You tin choose from a wide variety of shapes for adding graphical elements to your project. Meet Add together shapes in Final Cut Pro.
General-purpose background clip: Terminal Cutting Pro includes a variety of notwithstanding and animated backgrounds over which y'all tin can superimpose titles or keying effects. Encounter Add together backgrounds in Final Cut Pro.

All of the generators are added to the project as clips, using their default duration. Y'all tin change a generator's duration and position the same way y'all would for whatsoever other video clip in the timeline. You use the Generator inspector to adjust a generator'southward settings.

Notation: Generator clips appear in the browser when yous select a generators category in the Titles and Generators sidebar. (Generators don't announced in the Furnishings browser.) If you don't meet the generator you're looking for in the browser, you tin can employ the Filter pop-up carte du jour at the top of the browser to check for it in other locations. See Filter Motion content stored in a library.