Does FCP-X have arrow and frame generators?

I'm considering moving from FCP 5 to FCP-X, but I want to be sure that FCP-X can do the things I'm doing every day in FCP-5.
I do tutorial videos. In these tutorials I point out and emphasize a lot of things using arrows and frames of various shapes (circles, squares, rectangles, ovals, etc.).
In FCP-5 I have the Stibb's Arrow Generator plugin. This video generator can create an arrow of any thickness or length, with a choice of head or tail styles. I can click on a start point and an end point for an arrow, and move these points around. With this generator it only takes me a few seconds to create an arrow of the required length and thickness to point out something on the screen.
I can "animate" one of these arrows by simply revealing it with an edge wipe. The edge wipe makes the arrow appear to stretch out to point at something.
FCP-5 can also generate frames of various types. I most often create circles around things that I want to draw attention to. I can "animate" a circular frame by revealing it with a clock wipe, which makes the circle appear to draw itself.
I use these arrows and frames all the time. My question is, are there equivalent video generators in FCP-X?

I must be going nuts. I just realized that I already asked this question here about a month ago. But I can't see any way to delete this question, so I'll just add this note to it. Sorry about that, and I appreciate the answers I got earlier, which seem to have boiled down to buying a suite of special callout effects from Ripple for $50. Or else creating something in Motion, which is another program I'm not very competent with, having only watched some video tutorials of it (by Larry Jordan, I think). That Stibbs arrow generator in FCP 5 was so simple and elegant, and it was free.
I've been in the Adobe Premiere Pro forums asking the same questions, and all they can do is refer me to After Effects to create arrows and frames. Well, I do have Adobe CS6 and After Effects, and I've been trying my best to learn to create arrows and circles in Premiere Pro with it, and so far I just can't figure it out. AE is a complex program, and many of the procedures just skid right off my elderly, hardened-up brain.
Besides, Premiere Pro doesn't seem to be able to do the things I've always done with FCP, which is why I'm considering buying FCP-X instead. It's tough to teach an old dog new tricks. And Premiere seems to be buggy. A test video I tried to make with it locked up after I made several ripple edits on the timeline. Its "Canvas" just froze and stopped showing the edits. Phooey on Premiere. Other people have complained about all the bugs in it on the Mac. Plus it has pathetically few video transitions for the Mac (the PC vewrsion seems to have gotten all the goodies).
But Using After Effects to quickly create simple arrow of variable length and thickness seems like using a sledgehammer to squash an ant. The same goes for Motion in FCP X. There has to be an easier way, such as a simple generator of the Stibbs type.
So, I guess I'll get the Ripple generator for call-outs in FCP-X and see what it can do, as some have suggested. If anyone has any new ideas, I'd love to hear them.

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