How to add arrow in FCP

My friend's football coach wants me to add an arrow over a player on the video to show the viewer which player to focus on. The video is supposed to be used to help the player get recruited to play for college football.
What plug-ins are available for something like this?

Not sure if this is what you are looking for...
You can make the arrow in the text generator or import a still image of an arrow as footage, preferably a .png or something with an alpha channel. Then you can lay on top of your clip, adjust scale/rotation, and place it on top of the player.
It's kind of a pain to animate things in FCP but, it can be done.
To animate it...
Create keyframes for the Center position of the arrow clip (click on the diamond shape next to the X,Y values to the right of "Center" in the motion tab of the clip)
Place the arrow over the player at the beginning of the clip.
Advance one frame at a time and adjust the center of the arrow to follow the player you are highlighting. It may be tough to make the animation real smooth this way, but it will get the job done.
Hope that helps.
Videocopilot.net has some tutorials on motion-tracking in After Effects, if you happen to have that program.

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