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FCPX Charts Tutorial

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Channel: Pixel Film Studios · 2018 · Film & Animation

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FCPX Charts Tutorial

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Welcome to an FCPX Ocean tutorial from Pixel Film Studios
Let’s get started

We’ll begin by dragging the FCPX Charts generator preset directly into our timeline.

For this example, we will select the FCPX Charts 2D preset located within the Generators Browser under Chart Templates.

Click and drag this preset into your timeline and adjust to your desired length.

Importing and creating spreadsheet data with FCPX Charts.

With the generator selected located within the Generator Inspector Tab, we will begin by clicking on
the Open Chart Window button under the Master Controls Category.

Once the window appears we will then need to click in the center of the window to load our data.
We can also load our data by clicking on the data icon below, and then click on the load data button on the top left.

We will need to load a .csv file into FCPX Charts.

To create a .csv file within Microsoft Excel 
Click on File and choose Save As.
Under Save as type, choose CSV and then click save.
 
To create a .csv file within Apple Numbers
Click on File, export to, and choose CSV.

Once our .csv is loaded we then have the option to 
either add or delete a row or column to our spreadsheet with the buttons below.


To change the main descriptions within the first row, double-click on that particular column and then begin to type.
To alter the data display on all of the rows that follow, 
click once anywhere on that row, 
hit the tab key until that particular column is selected, 
and then begin to type in a new value.

To move a column or row simply left click on that row or column and drag it to a new location.

If you would like to add a space at the end or beginning of a bar chart
Add a row, delete its values, and then click and drag them to a new location.

To display specific columns hold the shift key and then left click on that particular column within the very first row.
The columns displayed will be highlighted in blue.
To hide a specific column hold the shift key and left click on the particular column in blue you wish to hide.
The columns that are not displayed will now be highlighted in white.


Once we are happy with our results we have the option of saving our data for later use.
To do this, click on the save data button, and then save it to the desired location.

Now that our data is complete we are ready to move on to stylizing our chart.
We can come back to our data at any point in time by clicking on the data icon below.
We’ll begin by clicking on the data icon to temporarily hide our data for now.


Creating & Stylizing a Custom Chart
FCPX Charts is divided into six main chart categories
Line,
Bar,
Radar,
Polar,
Pie,
and Bubble.

Each chart category will have different attributes that will be displayed as you click on its icon.

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