Free Final Cut Pro plugin: Alex4D Ribbon transition

My new free Final Cut Pro X transition slices the outgoing clip into two parts and pulls them apart with a horizontal ribbon appearing based on the pixels at the slice position. The ribbon crossfades into a ribbon representing a single column of pixels from the incoming clip. The two parts of the incoming clip to the left and right of the column then join together on screen:

Here are the controls:

The controls let you select where the split appears: where the ribbon starts and finishes. They default to the horizontal centre of the clips.

In the case of Matt Davis here, a value of 50 splits the clip and creates the ribbon so that his left ear is separated from his head:

If I set the split value to 38, I can set the split to line up with the centre of his face:

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, download 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 Ribbon 1.0.mtt’ file.

If you don’t want to use the Motion Template Tool, install these effects in Home / Movies / Motion Templates / Titles / Alex4D:

The title will appear in the Alex4D section of the Transitions browser:

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

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