Story Elements

Story Elements

Story Elements Describe Final Cut Pro events and project data and their associated effects.

Overview

Use Story Elements to arrange video or audio materials and titles or generators into a timeline, in the order you want them to appear when it plays on the timeline. Use the Timing Attributes for additional control over their precise timing.

Anchor one or more other story elements to each story element. An anchored item has a positive or negative lane index that either positions the item above or below its base element in the timeline.

For video elements, lane order also implies compositing order — items with higher lane indexes composite over elements with lower lane indexes. For audio elements, lane order doesn’t affect compositing. Items that reside inside, rather than above or below, a container are called contained items and have an implied lane index of zero.

Many story elements can contain annotations (keyword, markers, and so on) over a range of time, specified with the start and duration attributes. Add annotations to story elements using the elements listed under Annotation and Note Elements.