Using presets in Final Cut Pro is one of the best ways to speed up your workflow. This video will walk you through the process of using, creating, and sharin. Final Cut Pro (the application formerly known as FCPX) got a minor update to take it to version 10.5.3. While you can see the bullet point list of new features and fixes below the big new feature I want to highlight is the ability to save column layout presets. See Add video effects in Final Cut Pro. Select the clip in the timeline. Do one of the following: Choose File Save Video Effects Preset. Open the Video inspector, then click Save Effects Preset at the bottom of the inspector. The Save Video Effects Preset window appears, with any applied or adjusted effects selected in the Attributes list. Home / Final Cut Pro X Presets. Showing 1–25 of 1788 results. FCPX Tracker Suite $ 299.75 $ 99.95 Add to cart. M1 Ready FCPX Anime Fire 4K $ 69.95 $ 29.95 Add to.

[ Updated Aug. 16, 2020, with a variety of wording changes.]

Creating the perfect effect takes a lot of time. Wouldn’t it be great if, once you create an effect, you could save it to reuse again later?

Good news! Final Cut Pro X provides exactly that: an Effects Preset.

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Here’s an example. In this image, I’ve added:

Color Presets > Dry
Stylize > Vignette
Transform > Scaling
Transform > Position
And used the color wheels to increase saturation in the midtones

Whew! All to give the image an “old-timey” look, which fits perfectly with the story.

Final Cut Pro Preset Color Correction

CREATE AN EFFECTS PRESET

Once you’ve created the effects combination you want to save, look to the bottom right of the Video Inspector. There is the Save Effects Preset button.

That opens this window. At the top, I named this effect “Old-Time Memory”.

All presets need to be stored in a category. Click the Category menu and choose where you want the presets stored. While Color Presets would work, I decided to create a new category, so I chose New Category at the bottom of the menu.

This displays a small window where I can name the category. All we are doing here is creating a folder where this effect – and any future effects – will be stored. The actual preset name was entered earlier in the Name field.

In the Attributes section, check the effects you want to save with the preset. In my case, I want to save the look, but not the changes I made in the Transform menu. The image on the left shows all the applied effects, while the image on the right shows my final choices; I’m keeping the effects, but not keeping the changed Transform settings.

Notice the yellow diamonds in the Keyframe column? These indicate that an effect has keyframes applied to it.

If the effect you are saving includes keyframes – and in my example, I’m excluding them – these bottom two choices are relevant:

Maintain timing. This does not adjust the position of the keyframes when you apply the preset to a new clip.
Stretch to fit. This adjusts the position of keyframes based upon the duration of the original clip compared to the duration of the new clip. For example, if the original clip was three seconds long and you apply a preset containing keyframes to a new clip that’s six seconds long, the duration between keyframes will be doubled. If you apply it to a clip that’s only 1.5 seconds, the duration between key frames will be cut in half.

If you don’t use keyframes, you don’t care about the Keyframe Timing setting.

If you do use keyframes, most of the time you will probably want to choose Maintain Timing; however Final Cut gives you the option to adjust keyframe positions based upon clip durations.

Click Save and you are done.

APPLYING A PRESET

To apply a preset, open the Effects Browser, go to the Category you saved the effect into and apply it, the same as any other effect.

REMOVING EFFECTS

You have three options when you need to remove effects from a clip:

Select the clip, then manually remove effects using the appropriate Inspector.
Edit > Remove Effects. This removes all effects applied to the selected clip, or clips.
Edit > Remove Attributes. This displays a dialog allow you to select which effects, that are currently applied to a clip, you want to remove (see screen shot). Blue boxes indicate effects that are applied to a clip. Uncheck a box to remove that specific effect.

While you can manually remove effects using the Inspector, the Edit menu options are much faster. In any case, select the timeline clip, or clips, to which you want to remove effects, then choose the appropriate option.

DELETING A PRESET

Effects are stored in the Library of your Home Directory. But, rather than dig through the Library to find these files, the easiest way to delete them is to right-click the effect you want to remove and choose Reveal in Finder.

NOTE: For the record, custom effects are stored in: [Home Directory] > Library > Application Support > ProApps > Effects Presets.

Then, select and delete the effect you no longer want, the same as any other file. Be careful not to delete any files in this folder that you did not create!

Even after you move this file to the Trash, it may still appear in Final Cut. Once you quit the app and relaunch it, any deleted effects will be removed.

NOTE: Any effects presets, or custom effects in general, that are applied to clips in the Timeline will NOT be removed when you trash an effects preset. Once applied to a clip, effects stay applied, unless you remove them from each clip manually.

SUMMARY

Effects presets can save us a lot of time when we are reusing effects across multiple clips, or multiple projects. And creating them only takes a few seconds. Now you know how.

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If you own an Apple computer, Final Cut Pro is one of the best solutions for editing and creating videos. The software has powerful tools that allow you to remove unwanted parts of your video, combine several videos into one, and adjust the color, sound, and other properties of the final video or movie.

You can use Final Cut Pro for movie production as well as for business purposes, whether you’re creating videos for your Youtube channel or an online course.

As powerful as Final Cut Pro is, there is no denying that editing a video is a long process. But with the right preset, you can save a lot of time and cut your video editing time significantly.

We’ve rounded up the best free presets and templates for Final Cut Pro that you can download and use in your projects. Check them out below and add them to your resource library today.

Quick Jump:Animated Elements, Title Templates, Transitions, Special Effects, Sound Effects, Gradient, Color & Light Effects, Lower Thirds & Openers Templates.

How To Install Final Cut Pro Presets

Before we dive into the presets, here are the steps to follow to install these presets once you’ve downloaded them.

Start by unzipping the downloaded preset folder. Simply double-click it and the folder will be unzipped.
Now you need to select all the presets in the folder and then copy them by pressing Command+ C.
Open up your Finder and hold down the Option key. Then, go to Go > Library. Once inside the Library folder, go to Application Support > ProApps > Effects Presets.
You can now paste the preset files into the Effects Presets folder by clicking Command+V.
The last step is to restart Final Cut Pro so you can see and access your newly installed presets.

You might also like our collections of free presets for After Effects, free Premiere Pro templates, or free Apple Motion templates.

Free Final Cut Pro Animated Elements

50 Animated Gradient Backgrounds for Final Cut Pro

This preset pack boasts 50 wonderfully created color gradients that you can use for any of your Final Cut Pro video editing software. They will be perfect for use as backgrounds, layouts, film burns, or even light leaks.

Brightly Animations Explainer Toolkit for Final Cut Pro X on Envato Elements

Save yourself a lot of time and energy on your next animated project with this tool kit for Final Cut Pro X and Apple Motion. Easily put together, cu