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Hey hey hey! It's me, your friendly neighborhood Final Cut Bro.

Several months back I showed how to create a 3D carousel effect using Apple Motion. This ended up being one of my most popular Patreon downloads, and so I felt creating a new variation might be helpful for all of you!

This week on the channel I show how to make a 3D carousel that I think I like even more.
You can catch that tutorial right here 👉 https://youtu.be/5cFEJDmNKlU?si=Zg5stkj4jC8kqabN

When I originally made the first version of the 3D Carousel, Final Cut Pro was unable to correctly render it. The great news is, in version 12.3, that's been fixed! So if you are on the latest version of FCP, you can use this in your videos right now! You can find that download at the bottom of this post.

If you don't have the latest version of Final Cut Pro, you can still open up this Motion project and change it for your needs. The easiest way to make changes inside of Motion is to select "Project" at the top of the layers panel, then on the left you can make all the changes just like you would in Final Cut Pro.

Thanks as always for supporting what I do on YouTube. The channel just crossed 6 years old, and a genuinely huge part of that being possible is because of your support here.

I have another really exciting Motion video releasing soon all about Apple UI styled animations using Motion, so keep an eye out for that!

Can't wait to catch you in the next one 😁
-Dylan your Final Cut Bro.


Note :
3D Carousel v2 Installer installs it into FCP.
The Motion project variation is the standalone composition in case you don't have FCP 12.3.

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GVS

Hi Dylan Wonderfull plugin. Working perfectly One small suggestion Could you please consider creating a 3D Flip Book with hyper realistic page flip in 3d in Motion for FCPX The Apple Motion Page curl does not really deliver for a Book This can be a 4k project so that we ca use 16x9 images in Drop Zones

Dylan Bates - The Final Cut Bro

That's a wonderful idea, and something I actually tried to create several years back.. but I will be honest, this is just not something Motion is good at. You'd want to use a designated 3D app to create something like this. I would recommend Blender instead. Motion's 3D capabilities are extremely limited. If you were to create pages, you wouldn't be able to have drop zones wrap to those 3D pages. So you'd essentially just have flat images that rotate, and not actually have a dynamic 3D animation like what you're describing. Motion is much more suited for 2D graphics. While it CAN technically do some stuff in 3D, it's honestly about 20 years behind in a lot of its capabilities. Wish I had better news for you on this, as I think it's a really good idea! But its just not something I will likely create.

Meelad Zarrabi

Hi Dylan, i installed the plugin, added all of the clips but it doesn't export properly. Any tips?

Dylan Bates - The Final Cut Bro

Hey Meelad! I personally haven’t run into this issue for myself, but something you can try is placing the title into a compound clip. Fcp currently has a bug where titles reset to their default state on export for some reason. Placing it into a compound clip often times fixes that issue. Hope that helps!

William Lee

Hey Dylan, why did you choose just 8 DropZones? Why not 10, or 12?

Dylan Bates - The Final Cut Bro

To save me time during creation 😅. Every added dropzone is more time during the creation process. I felt like 8 got the idea across, without me having to keep on going.

Simon Ubsdell

I think it would be nice if you could change the aspect ratio of the drop zones. Ooh, and add a light or two could be really fun.

Dylan Bates - The Final Cut Bro

You caught me while I was out of town! Loved these suggestions, and loved your actual implementation on your Discord even more. Thanks Simon!