Final Cut Pro unable to handle transitions and titles on vertical videos.

I'm guessing it's a badly constructed template (with respect to any other aspect ratio than 16:9). There are certain conditions that get all messed up when Final Cut tries to conform (let's just call it) added content to any aspect ratio other than the one the template was created in. There are very few templates made that work the same in 16:9 (or larger) and 9:16.

What are the names of the templates and are there any videos you can link to (not on Fiverr) that show how they work (when they're working properly.)

I can't download or do anything with these templates. They "belong" to (were created by) somebody else and if you purchased them, they are "commercial" -- it's their work and copyright and I have a competing business. I can get away with repairing templates Apple provides with Final Cut (for free) because of the EULA and everybody already has the same templates to begin with.

There may be several different reasons why these problems may be happening, most likely is that it is an issue (or issues) with 16:9 templates being used in a vertical video project. One way around this might be creating a 16:9 project, make your transition clips Compound Clips and apply the transitions to the compounds. Then copy and paste the clips back into your 9:16 project.

If that doesn't cure the problem, then your next step would be to contact the the template maker for help. (Sorry I can't be more help...)

What's really weird is that the transition will PLAY correctly in FCP. You can make the transition long and it does the zoom in slowly and cleanly. However, if you step through the transition from the first frame you can immediately see there is a problem, and the problem exports. You see the problem in playback in QuickTime. I don't understand why though it will play smoothly and correctly in the FCP timeline.

The reason it doesn’t work is pretty simple:

The way the transition is created won’t work reliable with Vertical Media Projects.

To make it work you need to setup Snapshots for each aspect ratio.

This always has been the case, it just became more evident with the use of vertical and square media.

As far as I can tell, there are 2 *vertical* transitions (VL) and 2 horizontal aspect transitions (PV -- whatever that stands for).

I know that two of them have been updated recently (Aug 2022 -- originals made in Sept 2020 -- or at least the PV versions were made then) and they were both the vertical versions.

Which of the four transitions are broken - for you? I only see an issue with Zoom In (VL).

In Zoom In (VL) - what is the drop zone supposed to be used for? Why isn't there a corresponding one in Zoom Out (VL)?

Also, in Zoom In (VL) the Project > Duration [Timecode] is 00:00:01:00 (1 second), but the actual Project *Length* (canvas) is 2:00 seconds. I can't wrap my head around this one -- never seen it before.

It looks like somebody else has already tried to make alterations to the two vertical zoom transitions -- so -- we're attempting to fix a fix?

It's gonna take awhile... (I'm not a big fan of transitions...)

I didn't fix the templates. Didn't even really try. I built a new one from scratch but used the timing setup as a guide.

My one template will do both Zoom In and Zoom Out. (Menu selection [Direction]). The zoom amount can be scaled ([Zoom Boost]).

My one template will work in 9:16 vertical, square, HD (16:9) formats and beyond. (When using a transition template in Final Cut media should fill the aspect ratio of the project.)

Free for a limited time:

https://fcpxtemplates.com/zoom-i-o/

I just downloaded and checked the transition.

There is no setup for 9:16. Therefore you can't expect that it is working - in this case.

Here it doesn't work at all - at least in a way which makes sense.

I responded to you via email (customer support, technically) so if you gave me a correct email address, you should receive updates! If not, let me know here and we can try this again another way.