A free Final Cut Pro for Mac generator that draws a series concentric circles to form a tunnel.

Use it to create abstract backgrounds for text and logos between clips or as an overlay that illustrates waves of information being broadcast from a single point.

Uploaded Friday 30 August 2013

This free plugin is for Final Cut Pro for Mac version 10.0.6 and newer.

Thanks to Y-Love and Matt Davis for the use of their interview footage.

Add this generator to your timeline or connect it to a timeline clip.

Controls

Position choose the centre point of the circles, there is an on-screen control to choose the position precisely.

Colour choose the colour used the draw the circles.

Speed ranging from 0 – still circles to 200 – very fast animation.

Density controls how many circles are drawn.

Spin instead of a shape curved into a circle, you can choose to animate spirals. Spin controls the angle of the spirals.

Emboss non-zero values flatten the circles, extrudes them slightly and adds a variable amount of shadow.

Vignette control the diameter of the lit area of the generator. From 0 – all lit up to 100 – a small circular area lit up.

Background choose the background colour of the generator on which the circles are drawn.

Background Opacity set this to values less than 100% to make the generator partially transparent for when you attach this generator to a timeline clip.

Randomise the timing and the thickness of the circles is randomly chosen based on a long random number. Click the Generate button to randomly choose a new number until you are happy with thickesses and timing of the circles. If you want to try different options, keep a note of the long number associated with a combination you like. If when you click to randomise again you like the combination less, enter the number of the combination you like to see it again.

Click to download the installer:

This plugin is free to download and use, but if you’d like to show your appreciation for my work, please donate here:

Once installed, you’ll find it the Alex4D section of the Generators browser:

If when you try to run the installer you get a message stating it can’t be opened “because it was not downloaded from the Mac App Store” – your macOS security preferences are protecting you. To change them, or work around this, visit this post at blog.alex4d.com.