This tip gives you control over the default titles you can add to your projects using new menu commands in Final Cut Pro 10.0.3. It requires you to go deep inside your copy of FCP and make a simple change. If you have Motion, you can modify a title template you use often and make that new template your default title.

Although the new version of Final Cut Pro X advertises features designed to attract and placate ‘professionals,’ Apple have also been paying attention to the problems new users have in getting straightforward tasks done.

There are now two simple Title templates: ‘Basic Title’ and ‘Basic Lower Third’ – these act more like the text tools in other editing applications – you use them to overlay text onto video. Unlike the rest of the Titles in Final Cut, they don’t animate on or off the screen. They don’t have any associated graphics either. Although they are ‘basic’ in that respect, you can use multiple fonts, colours, sizes and effects in the text. You can also reposition them simply by dragging the anchor point.

You can add these two titles to your timeline using two new menu commands:

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This is a quick post listing a few of the internal differences between version 10.0 and 10.0.1 of Final Cut Pro X.

Updates in Final Cut Pro / Contents /Resources / en.lproj / PELocalizable.strings

A few extra messages associated with importing XML.

There are also some messages supporting those attempting to run 10.0.1 on systems with unsupported graphics cards:

To ensure optimal performance, use a graphics card that meets minimum system requirements. For more information on minimum system requirements, visit the Tech Specs page on the Final Cut Pro website.
This system does not meet the minimum system requirements for graphics cards. For more information on minimum system requirements, visit the Tech Specs page on the Final Cut Pro website.
This graphics configuration does not support hardware acceleration, which is required to run Final Cut Pro X.
Safe mode does not support OpenGL hardware acceleration, which is required to run Final Cut Pro X. Please reboot normally and try again.

There is also support for running in trial mode.

New UI elements added to the Final Cut Pro/ Contents / Frameworks / Flexo.framework / Versions / A / Resources / en.lproj / directory:

FFAXELExport.nib
FFAXELImport.nib

FFAudioMatchWindow.nib

FFColorBoardContentView.nib
FFColorMatchWindow.nib

FFDataListClipsView.nib
FFDataListRoleSetTile.nib
FFDataListRolesView.nib
FFDataListRoleTile.nib
FFDataListTagsView.nib

FFMatchAccessory.nib
FFMatchFooter.nib

So there is more internal support for AXEL – ‘Apple eXchange Editing Language’ flavour of XML (which is distinct from Final Cut Pro XML v1.0). Here are two consecutive lines of Final Cut Pro / Contents / Frameworks / Flexo.framework / Versions / A / Resources / en.lproj / FFLocalizable.strings:

“FFXMLFORMAT” = “Final Cut Pro X XML, %@”;
“FFAXELFORMAT” = “Apple eXchange Editing Language (axel), %@”;

In the same file there is some additional text to support roles, including a concept I haven’t heard of yet:

“FFSetRole” = “Set Role”;
“FFFocusRole” = “Focus Role”;
“FFUnfocusRole” = “Unfocus Role”;

I wonder what ‘focus’ing a role means…