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Show all posts by userYour basic troubleshooting forum for all things FCP Legacy (FCP 7 and below.) And general discussion on topics that do not fit in the other forums.
Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Internal hard drive question - 13 years agoopen your 'system settings' menu item (under the final cut pro menu). this shows you the drives where fcp puts its various files. perhaps your system drive is listed for one or more of the items. stefanby stefangs - Café LA Re: tiny lower third - a cpu hog - 13 years agoderekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That actually doesn't sound like a very intensive > effect to me. I've had 24-track effects, all > Final Cut, involving composite modes, filters as > well as Motion. If it still doesn't play back > smoothly after rendering or exporting a > self-contained movie, then I'd question your disk > stby stefangs - Café LA Re: tiny lower third - a cpu hog - 13 years agoJude Cotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What I would do is add a white colour matte, crop > it to size, then just add a soft edges filter with > only the right side softened. If that was still > too heavy, you could reduce the opacity to thin it > off a bit, or drag the whole thing left off screen > some to reduce the hard edge even moby stefangs - Café LA Re: tiny lower third - a cpu hog - 13 years agostrypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You could try exporting the lower third clip as a > ProRes4444 file, then reimport that back in and > throw on the add mode. The add mode may cause FCP > to go into unlimited RT mode. i've tried that exact thing too, but the results were the same unfortunately.by stefangs - Café LA Re: adding multiple transitions at once - 13 years agoexcellent, thank you! stefanby stefangs - Café LA tiny lower third - a cpu hog - 13 years agohi all, i have a timeline with some prores clips. now i want to add a simple lower third to it which is supposed to be just a thin white semi-transparent line that fades into complete transparency about halfway into the frame. here's what i did: in the viewer, i called up 'Gradient' from the popup menu (the one that also has the text menu - default vertical left to right). i added that newlby stefangs - Café LA Re: adding multiple transitions at once - 13 years agothanks guys for the speedy replies! stefanby stefangs - Café LA adding multiple transitions at once - 13 years agohi all, when i create a rough edit by dragging a bunch of clips from the browser to the timeline, can i apply the default transition to all of them at once too? right now i have a case where it would be quicker to do that and delete the transition where i don't want it instead of the other way round. thanks, stefanby stefangs - Café LA Re: medium opacity mask - 13 years agothanks guys for the speedy replies. no i didn't render and didn't think i need to. now it looks just fine! i'll try the vignette filter option too, just to see how that would work. just really getting into it... thanks again, stefanby stefangs - Café LA medium opacity mask - 13 years agohi all, i need some help here... i'm trying to get the effect of looking through a telescope, but i don't want to have the rest of the screen in black instead, i would like the remainder of the clip to show through dimmed (similar to a spot lamp). this is what i've done: - superimpose the clip with itself on two video tracks. - on track 1, i put effects>matte>mask shape and selecby stefangs - Café LA Re: beginner keyframing problem - 14 years agothanks to all for chiming in. it's surprising that something that is so cumbersome and obviously not thought out persists in a version 6 (and presumably 7). i took the advice and exported to motion which i never used before. even so, within about 20 minutes it did what i wanted. next time it will be a breeze (i hope). great forum, guys!!by stefangs - Café LA Re: beginner keyframing problem - 14 years agook so maybe the sweep isn't all that wild, but it's definitely a sweep in two directions - first up, then down. there are exactly two keyframes for scale, one at the beginning, one at the end. i double checked by deleting them individually (then undo). they are joined with a bezier curve. for center, there are also just 2 keyframes, but no bezier curve, because that's not possible, afaik.by stefangs - Café LA beginner keyframing problem - 14 years agothis is my first post here, so please be gentle... i have a still frame and i want to zoom in on it, slowly, then fast at the end. i put in keyframes at the beginning and end (basic motion/scale) with a bezier curve. this works nicely, but... at the end, the frame isn't right. so i added two more keyframes (basic motion/center). the manual says i can't add bezier curves, because it's a twoby stefangs - Café LA |
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