| When you are happy with your animations, you can simply import your LiveType project into Final Cut Pro. The project will appear in the Browser as a clip, and you can edit it as you would any clip. To make changes to it, you can open it in the LiveType application from within FCP, make the changes in LiveType, and save the changes, and the file will update automatically in FCP. Follow these steps to import the current LiveType project, or your own personal project, into FCP: 1. | From within Final Cut Pro, open the Lesson 16 Project, or any FCP project file in which you'd like to use a LiveType project you've already created and saved.
| 2. | Choose File > Import > Files, or press Cmd-I. From the Choose A File window, navigate to the Lessons folder, and select Practicing LiveType to import the LiveType project you've just created, or navigate to wherever you saved the project you want to open. Click Choose.
In the Browser, the LiveType project appears as a clip icon with the suffix ipr.
| 3. | Open the Practicing LiveType.ipr clip in the Viewer. Using the same method you would to edit any clip, insert this clip at the head of the open Racing Promo sequence.
| 4. | To make changes to this LiveType clip, Ctrl-click the Practicing LiveType.ipr clip in the sequence and choose Open In Editor from the shortcut menu.
This launches or reverts to the LiveType application where you can make changes to this LiveType project. Once you save the new changes, and return to Final Cut Pro, those new changes will appear in the open sequence.
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There are many ways you can use LiveType in your projects, not only for animating titles, but for adding interesting backgrounds as well. Using this lesson as an introduction, spend time exploring LiveType, creating your own animated titles and backgrounds, and incorporating them into your projects. |
