Power Guides for Final Cut Pro

BretFX Power Guides for Final Cut Pro is everything you’ll ever need in a guides, letterbox and grid plugin! Align and visualize your content with custom guides, rulers, film zones, safe zones, letterboxing, pillar boxing, grid options and reference overlays. Power Guides is a title effect and therefore can be output to a client monitor or rendered into your final video. Customize line widths and colors, aspect ratios, opacity and positions. CUSTOM GUIDES WITH ON SCREEN CONTROLS 2 custom horizontal and 2 vertical guides with on-screen controls assist with aligning text or graphics across multiple shots or projects. HD AND 4K RULERS Enable 16:9 HD or 4k rulers to precisely place the custom guides right down to the pixel. BROADCAST SAFE ZONES Display 16:9 or 4:3 Title/Action Safe Zones (plus a center cross). Useful to create a single version destined for HD and center cut SD output. FILM ZONES Display additional guides to help envision how your 16:9 project will look cropped to modern film ratios. Choose from a preset or dial in a custom aspect ratio. LETTERBOX AND PILLARBOX Letterbox or pillbox your 16:9 project. Choose from a preset or dial in a custom aspect. Adjust opacity and color of the letterbox for visualization and / or effect. ALIGNMENT GRID Display a grid to assist in your layouts. Adjust the grid density to control the number of horizontal and vertical lines displayed. Control the transparency with the opacity. REFERENCE OVERLAYS Utilize a drop zone overlay to assist in shot matching and color correction. Choose from 8 different overlay positions. CLIENT MONITORING Power Guides is a title overlay and can be enabled or disabled in the timeline. The overlay can be output to a client monitor or rendered into the final video for effect. COLOR PALETTE PRESETS OR CUSTOM COLORS Select a color palette defining the colors of the guides, zones, and grid, or customize each color individually.