I could use some help please!

Hi, Fox.

I have downloaded the title, and installed on my mac.

I am running FCP 11.1.1 on macOS Sequoia 15.6.1.

My mac is a MacBook Pro (14", M4 Pro).

The title loads and I can adjust nearly all the parameters just fine.

I tested this with text that is a few lines long, and switch several parameters, even while playing back, without any problem.

The only question I have is about the "Manual Animation" slider. I can adjust the slider but I don't see any changes in how the title behaves when I do that. It is not clear to me how this slider is supposed to affect the title behavior.

If you think it's useful, I may try it later or perhaps tomorrow, on another mac where I plan to try an OS that cannot b be named yet :-)

I found an issue: if I turn on "Use Keyframes", it does not appear to work correctly. Again, I am not sure what this is supposed to do in this title, but when turning it on the text does not appear to write on as before (by character, word, etc) but instead shows only partially and fixed through out (cutting out some of the last words of the text).

I can't get the title to appear in FCP.

My Motion Templates folder was empty so I created a new folder called "Titles" and placed the complete download inside it.

Have I done something wrong? Exactly where should the title appear?

OK I got it to load on my M2 which has the Titles folder already installed but I can't see what the title is supposed to do?

It just writes one letter at a time from left to right? What is it meant to do?

Ian R. Brown wrote:

OK I got it to load on my M2 which has the Titles folder already installed but I can't see what the title is supposed to do?

It just writes one letter at a time from left to right? What is it meant to do?

Ian, if you try it with a longer text, you will see that the text gradually moves up on screen as new lines are written (probably why it's called "Bottom Up" :-)).

If you use only one line, of course, you won't see that.

I have only tested the basic movement of the text starting at the bottom and moving up for every new line and I can confirm that it works using both FCP 11.1 and FCP 11.1.1 on an M2 mini running macOS 15.5 and an M4 running macOS 15.6.1

What stops it working is having the Write On Speed set at a high figure.

Depending on the text I find that somewhere around 50 is OK.

I copied my Motion Projects/Titles folder (which was working OK) from the M2 across to the M4 and all was well.

So my creation of a new Titles folder originally must have had a problem.

I seem to recollect you mentioning in the past that it wasn't enough just to create a folder you had to do something connected with "localise"?

Previously I have never had any problems . . . though I am booting from an external SSD.

I think I have got it!

Create a folder called "Motion Templates.localized" and do the same for the Titles, Transitions, Generators and Effects.

It's just that previously I have never put ".localized" in the name and it has always worked perfectly.

Fox, thank you for the explanation.

Now that I understand how the "Use Keyframes" checkbox is supposed to work :-), I can confirm that it works fine.

And the video illustrates the use of the title beautifully.

Great work, as usual!

I downloaded the Title twice because of problems I was having so there may not have been as many people downloading as you think.

I realised why you had the title set at 100% but I suspect the Original Purchaser didn't!