Version 2.0
The rulers and guides Final Cut Pro never had.
Pixel rulers, up to 10 guides each way, composition grids and delivery safe zones, drawn sharp at any viewer size. New in 2.0: guides that never end up in your export.
See what's new in 2.0 →Grit Guides Pro puts a designer's rulers and guides inside the Final Cut Pro viewer.
Drop it on your timeline as a title, or on an adjustment layer as an effect. Rulers number every pixel along the top and left edges. Drag a guide in the viewer or type its position, and it snaps to the thirds, the center, the golden-ratio lines, the safe zones and the other guides.
Then check the delivery: title and action safe, each social app's buttons and captions over your vertical edit, and how a shot crops anywhere from 2.39:1 to 9:16.
Drag the cyan guides. They snap to the thirds, the center, the golden-ratio lines and each other, and their numbers follow in the rulers, just as they do in Final Cut. Counted in a 4K frame.
Drag a guide, or select one with Tab and move it with the arrow keys.
Drag them in the viewer or type a number. Each guide's pixel position shows right in the ruler.
Ten vertical and ten horizontal, for a lower third, a logo lockup, a product that has to land in the same place every shot.
Guides move in pairs: drag one and its partner mirrors it across the center. Symmetric margins in one move.
Lines and numbers are drawn for the viewer you're looking at, so they stay crisp from a laptop screen to a 5K display, zoomed in or not.
Each with its own color and opacity.
Safe zones for Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Stories, or all of them at once. App Screen draws the app's buttons, caption and tabs over your video, so you see it the way viewers will before you post.
Title safe, action safe and the 4:3 center cut. See how a shot crops at 2.39:1, 1.85:1, 4:5 or 9:16, as outlines or letterbox bars, or outline 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 and 16:9 at once, labeled, for one edit cut to several shapes.
Use it as a title above your clips, or as an effect on an adjustment layer. It works out 16:9, 4:3, vertical, 4:5, square and cinema-wide projects on its own.
Your setup becomes a Final Cut Custom Overlay: shown in the viewer only, never in an export or the scopes.
Line your shot up with a storyboard frame or a layout, over the picture.
Four color sets, line width, a dark edge for bright footage, and HDR brightness.
Columns and rows with a margin and a gutter, like a design layout. Shade the cells to see them.
An app installs it in Final Cut Pro, updates it and uninstalls it. No folders to dig through.
Every change, including dragging guides in the viewer, goes through Final Cut's undo.
Installing, presets, every control, troubleshooting and uninstalling, on one page.
Open the guideQuestions, bugs or an idea for the next version? Write and you'll get an answer from the person who makes it.
support@dnftd.netThe title or effect shows in exports like any other. Use Save as Viewer Overlay, or disable its clip (press V) before you share.
How toYes, like any title or effect. Disable its clip (press V) or turn off Show Overlay before you export. Or save your setup as a Viewer Overlay: Final Cut shows it in the viewer only.
Yes. It works out 16:9, 4:3, vertical, 4:5, square and cinema-wide projects on its own. For 2.39:1 and 21:9, use the effect on an adjustment layer: a title only covers the middle 16:9.
Both draw the same overlay with the same controls. A title sits above your clips; the effect goes on an adjustment layer and covers the whole frame, whatever its shape.
Yes. Open the Grit Guides Pro app and use its Presets menu to export yours to a file. Another editor imports it into theirs.
Frame every shot with confidence. One plug-in for the rulers, guides, grids and safe zones you'd otherwise eyeball.