Final Cut Pro removes titles after every update

I second everything fox_m says . . . never interfere with the FCP application folder in any way!

Whoever recommended to you that you should install templates inside Final Cut Pro was an *expletive deleted* moron. [I've seen several videos where this recommendation is made -- it's infuriating to see!!!!]

You should ***never*** install templates inside the application itself. If you need to install templates for "all users" there is a place for that, but I am not going to tell you how because it is not recommended by Apple and as a template designer, it is against my "EULA" for you to install templates for all users.

There is only ONE Apple recommended location to install templates and that is inside your HOME folder (your current user account) / Movies / Motion Templates. The Motion Templates folder needs to have the extension ".localized" although that is rarely visible (as soon as you create a Motion Templates.localized folder, the ".localized" portion of the name usually simply disappears from view.)

Inside the Motion Templates folder there should be four other folders named Effects.localized, Titles.localized, Generators.localized and Transitions.localized. [These four folders along with Motion Templates are the ONLY folders to be localized.]

When installing templates into these locations, you need to create "Category folders" where the names of the folders are the labels you see inside the various inspectors in Final Cut used as "groupings", for example: Lower Thirds in Titles, Backgrounds in Generators, etc...) You can create your own category names as you like.

Inside these specific category folders is where individual templates are placed.

A "template" is a Folder with the template's name containing a Motion file also with the templates name, 2 pngs ("large.png" and "small.png") and a Media folder (not always required... but usually there albeit empty.) Do not change the names of the Template folder or the Template file — it will break!

When you upgrade Final Cut Pro, these templates, in their proper location, will not be overwritten (or deleted).

They should show up and you do not need Motion.

However, they may not appear immediately until after you have restarted FCP.

The Motions Templates folder is for effects etc. that have been created in Motion by you or a third party but you do not need to have Motion installed.

In your Movies folder you will find a Motion Templates folder into which you put third party Transitions, Effects, Generators and Titles.

Check with the template/plugin developer, they will tell you how to install what you purchased. Follow their instructions to the letter!

This is an example of what I mean. It is for transitions, but the other ones are similar.

Notes:

• Motion Templates, Transitions (and Effects, Generators and Titles) folders must be "localized", as already explained by fox_m.

• The category folder must exist between Transitions and the actual transition - in the example, that is "Lichinho". It is, as fox_m also explained, the name that appears in FCP.

If they don’t show up it’s possible that the folder hierarchy is not exactly right.

Please post a screenshot from the Finder of the folder hierarchy leading to one of your templates, in Column View, so we can confirm.