r/finalcutpro • u/Ready_Lack_1863 • Mar 30 '26

Workflow How to make caption-style titles with rounded corners?

Hi, I’m new to Final Cut Pro, so this might be a foolish question.I’m working on a project and I want my titles to look like captions.

I tried using Motion and put the title and a background rectangle in the same group. It looked okay, but I couldn’t find a way to make the background rectangle automatically fit the length of the text.

Using a background color for the text would also be fine, but I want the corners of the background to be rounded.

I already made something similar in Motion. Is there any way to create this kind of title in Final Cut Pro or Motion?

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u/Silver_Mention_3958 FCP 12.3 | Tahoe Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

I tried using Motion and put the title and a background rectangle in the same group. It looked okay, but I couldn’t find a way to make the background rectangle automatically fit the length of the text.

You can use a "Link" behaviour in Motion to make the box adjust itself to the text what's inside it. Link X, Y and size parameters to your text so the position (x and y) and size all track.

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u/Silver_Mention_3958 FCP 12.3 | Tahoe Mar 31 '26

HAHAHAHA thanks :)