Free Final Cut Pro plugin: Alex4D Opacity Gradient generator

My free Final Cut Pro X generator produces areas of colour with an opacity gradient.

Here are the controls:

If you connect the generator to a clip…

…it will overlay the colour:

The area of colour can itself be a gradient by checking Two Colours 

Start Opacity: 75%, End Opacity: 100%

The gradients can be radial:

L: One colour, Start Opacity: 100%, End Opacity: 0%
R: Two colours, Start Opacity: 80%, End Opacity: 100%

You can control the centre point of the opacity gradient and colour gradients:

L: Opacity Centre: 10%,  R: Opacity Centre: 100%

L: Colour Centre: 80%,  R: Colour Centre: 20%

 

Installation

Download this disk image:

It includes an installation script for Spherico’s Motion Template Tool application, if you don’t have it on your Mac, try it. It is a freeware/donationware tool that simplifies effects installation for Final Cut Pro X users. MTT installs effects for Final Cut Pro X in the correct folders, creating them if need be. You don’t need to have Motion 5 or MTT installed for these effects to work.

Once you have MTT installed on your computer, double-click the ‘Install Alex4D Opacity Gradient 1.0.mtt’ file.

If you don’t want to use MTT, install these effects in Home / Movies / Motion Templates / Generators / Alex4D:

To apply the generator in Final Cut Pro X, drag it from the Alex4D section of the generators browser:

If you find this free plugin useful, you might like my Alex4D Animation Transitions plugin pack:

Find out more about Alex4D Animation Transitions.

There are many more free plugins on my Final Cut Pro X page