Alex4D Dimensions effect: Helpful for making videos with non-standard frame dimensions

Here's the next set:



They're a set of effects that allow you to matte to the exact pixel dimensions you want your final output to be.

There's one for the four major project settings in Final Cut Pro 10.0.



Once you place one of these titles above everything else in your project, you can continue working knowing how much of your footage will be visible in the final output.



You can also reduce the strength of the matte to see slightly beyond the edge of your final video.




Download link over at my blog, plus demo video and tips for cropping videos to their final size.


Lots more to come!


Alex

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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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Ah brilliant. Thanks Alex. Great for our narrowcast screens.

The effect makes clips look like this:


If you use the controls to pick three others...


For more information and download link, go to my blog.


Alex

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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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You getting any sleep? Nice work Alex.

Michael Horton
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I've updated the post to mention that you can choose the in point for the clips by selecting instances in the timeline instead of clips in the event library:




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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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I'm finishing off an improved Widescreen effect that I plan to post in the next couple of days.

Here's the pop-up menu of aspect ratios:


Any missing ratios you'd like?



Alex

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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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Alex - will this be a generator or a regular effect filter?

We've been working with a (custom) widescreen-matte generator for the old FCP all these years. We've always found this to be easier to use instead of the built-in widescreen filter that you have to drop on each individual clip.

We just dropped the generator on a video track above everything else (Avid-style...)

Keep up the great work! It's very inspiring what you're doing!

--- Markus ---

Markus,

Thanks.

It'll be a title generator, so it can be dropped on the whole timeline.

Alex

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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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That sounds great! Thank you so much for making all this available to the rest of us! We owe you!

Markus

Here are the controls:


Download it from my blog.


Alex

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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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I've come up with a replacement for the Dip To Color transition for Final Cut Pro 7.



If the transition is on a secondary storyline, you can choose for the Opacity of the dip to be 0, so that the storyline underneath becomes momentarily visible.




There is also a lot of control over by when the previous clip fades out and when the next clip starts to fade in.


Using this control, you can fade out the previous clip and the transition can be the next clip fading in over a background. If the background is white, you get a flash frame effect.


For video samples and download link, visit my blog.


Alex

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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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This effect moves, rotates and scales the clip it is applied to. You define the strat position, rotation and scale. You also choose an end position, rotation and scale.



There are 'Constant' and 'Ease Both' curves for all three parameters. There's also an 'Exponential' curve for large changes in scale.



You can also control when the animation starts and ends in terms a percentage of the total length of the clip.

For more information and download link, go to my blog.


Alex

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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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Alex - why didn't Apple put you on their programming team to fill in the ...oh what is it ... several hundred missing features?

This is great Alex, any chance for FCP 7 version?

I used to make FxScript-based effects for Final Cut Pro 7, but that was years ago. Sadly I've almost forgotten my FxScript skills, so I'm sticking to making effects in Motion.

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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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