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DRAW MASK TEXT IN FCPX.4 - 5 years agoHi, Hope you can help. Thanks. I'm trying to draw mask text in FCPX.4, but every time I start to move the control point within the area of the text, the text box comes up and won't allow me to move the control move. It only moves the text within the box. Not sure what i'm doing wrong. Have looked at a few videos, but don't see any difference from what i'm doing and what they are doing. Can youby slomoray - Café LA - X DELETING RENDER FILES - 8 years agoHi, Can I delete render files on the project that I am currently working on without effecting the project, in FCPX? Thanks, Rayby slomoray - Café LA - X Chromakey with multiple images - 8 years agoHi, Thanks for any help you can give. I am doing a full screen chromakey and would like to use the same person multiple times on the screen at the same time, but would like to be able to have the people overlap, not just stand side by side, which I know I can do by cropping. Is this effect possible in FCPX or do I need another app? Thanks, Rayby slomoray - Café LA - X Re: Applying graphics between foreground and background in FCP 6 - 10 years agoThanks JVK, While I am no expert at it, I will look into trying to do it in Motion.by slomoray - Café LA Applying graphics between foreground and background in FCP 6 - 10 years agoHi, First of all, thanks of all the help in the past. This is a great site. I would like to create a scene where a graphic is behind a subject in the foreground, but in front of the objects in the background. If anyone can suggest how I can do this it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rayby slomoray - Café LA FCP TO FCP X - 10 years agoHi, I'm curious as to how many of you have reluctantly made the switch to FCP X, but are now quite happy with it? I work in the production side of televison but edit mostly as a hobby. I still use an older version of FCP. Thanks, Rayby slomoray - Café LA Re: TEXT IN FCP - 12 years agoThanks for the help. For now i've decide to use just green fonts which reproduce well. It's a short Christmas video. Thanks again. Rayby slomoray - Café LA Re: TEXT IN FCP - 12 years agoThat you for the help. Not sure what you mean by doing it in a Prores timeline instead of NTSC. How would I do that? Thanks, Rayby slomoray - Café LA TEXT IN FCP - 12 years agoHello, I'm doing a project using red text and green text every other shot. The shots are just text over black. The initial size in the motion tab is 50, although depending on the amount of text, I use the wireframe in the Canvas to change the size. The font is BiauKia. After rendering, the green graphics are clean, but the red graphics seem to have jagged edges and the letters do not reproduce vby slomoray - Café LA PAN & ZOOM - 12 years agoHi. I'm using Crumplepop's Shift Tilt App in FCP 6, using Still Photos, and would like to add a pan & zoom to the stills. My question is: can I appy the pan & zoom to the same timeline i'm applying the shift Tilt effect, or would it be something I did later. Thank you, Rayby slomoray - Café LA Re: CANNOT FIND MOTION TEMPLATES IN FINDER - 12 years agoThanks for helping me understand the reasoning behind the actions taken. Rayby slomoray - Café LA Re: CANNOT FIND MOTION TEMPLATES IN FINDER - 12 years agoThanks for the help. I create a folder and that seemed to correct the problem. While I don't understand the technical part of what we did, it helped, so i'll leave it alone. Thanks again. Rayby slomoray - Café LA Re: CANNOT FIND MOTION TEMPLATES IN FINDER - 12 years agoWell I imagine i went to the right folders. The download has visual instructions that I followed exactly. I'm not sure how I could have gone to another folder.by slomoray - Café LA CANNOT FIND MOTION TEMPLATES IN FINDER - 12 years agoHi, I recently purchased Crumplepop's Tilt-Shift Effects for FCP and was instructed to find the codecs I need, from it's folder, and place it in: Library>Application Support>Final Cut Studio>Motion>Templates When I opened up the motion folder, I see a library folder but no template folder. In any case I dragged the codec to the motion folder and restarted the computer. After openiby slomoray - Café LA Resizing Photoshop Cut Out In FCP - 12 years agoI've cut out the foreground of a photo(jpeg) in Photoshop Elements, and when I import that layer to FCP the size of the photo, imported as a sequence, is resized very large and i'm not sure how to resize it to a size I can work with. When I look at it in the viewer or canvas, even at 25 % it is visually too large to manage properly and slows down everything considerably. Can you offer some adviceby slomoray - Café LA Re: LAYERING VIDEO AND TEXT - 12 years agoWith text I generally like to create my own, even if it's simple, because of where I want it on the screen, how I want it to move, and sometimes, how I want it to interact with other layered text. Can FCP X employ several layers of text together? I don't have FCP X yet, but have tried to do extensive internet searching for these answer before I buy it, but not always with much luck. I'm more of aby slomoray - Café LA - X LAYERING VIDEO AND TEXT - 12 years agoWith Final Cut Pro X I was wondering if it has the capability to layer video like older versions of FCP. I believe it's up to 99 layers. I've looked and haven't had much luck. Also in FCP X is one forced to used their text templates or can one create his own text with it own distinct look and timing much like in older versions of FCP? Thank, Rayby slomoray - Café LA - X OLD MOVIES SOUNDTRACK - 12 years agoHi, I'm doing a personal FCP project that is suppose to look like an old movie. I've added the video filter to give it that old film look, but I was wondering if I should do something to the audio tracks to give it an old movie sound? Does this question make sense, or is audio sounding normal okay? Thanks for any help you can give me. You ar ethe best. Rayby slomoray - Café LA Re: STILLS FREEZE DURING DISSOLVES - 12 years agoThanks for the help. Everything turned out correctly. Rayby slomoray - Café LA STILLS FREEZE DURING DISSOLVES - 12 years agoHi, I'm editing in FCP on my IMac. I have a series of stills back to back, that i've applied motion(through the motions tab) to create a horizontal pan with the attempt to create motion and a passing of time. However with the dissolve, about 15 frames, I end up catching a portion of one of the stills frozen. I've applied the dissolve to the end of the first still, in between both of the stills eby slomoray - Café LA SAVING A FCP PROJECT - 13 years agoHi, Being somewhat new to FCP I could use some help here. Up until my current project (all my projects are personal and I just do for friends and family) I have always saved all video material and projects to the computer's hard drive. I have an IMac. Now my FCP says that the scratch disk is full. I have since started removing old material from the computer and have bought an external hard driveby slomoray - Café LA IMPORTING VIDEO AND PICTURES - 13 years agoHi, I am doing a FCP project and started by importing 16x9 DV. I now plan on importing 4x3 photographs. Do I have to make any imports changes? I don't mind if the project has two different aspect ratios. Also, will I have aspect ratio problems when I export project to quicktime or when I make the DVD using IDVD? I hope i've given enough info. Thanks for the help. Rayby slomoray - Café LA Re: QUICKTIME & SNOW LEOPARD - 13 years agoThanks for the info. This will definitely help. I appreciate all your info despite my lack of info. Thanks, Rayby slomoray - Café LA Re: QUICKTIME & SNOW LEOPARD - 13 years agoThanks for the quick reply. Here is where i'm not sure of things. My video appeared "normal" prior to the upgrade to Snow Leopard. I also made a DVD prior to the upgrade that "appeared" okay. Doing it before the Upgrade, for sequence settings I just left things in Easy Setup. Does that make sense? After my project was done I would then makeby slomoray - Café LA QUICKTIME & SNOW LEOPARD - 13 years agoHi, I just upgraded my Mac to Snow Leopard and not sure now how to change the aspect ratio properties of my quicktime movie. My FCP project was done using both 4x3 and 16x9 source material. When I make my quicktime movie to send to IDVD all the video is 4X3. In Snow Leopard, Quicktime was upgraded and I can't figure out how to change the aspect ratio. Does this make any sense? Am I doing somethiby slomoray - Café LA IPHOTO STILL IN FCE - 14 years agoHi, I'm working on a project using stills imported from Iphotos. In the FCE timeline i've add moves to each still. As I play them back, on the timeline, everything is fine but after rendering, the pix do not move and they appear and disappear form the screen. The quicktime movie of this is intermittent. I've trashed the preferences to see how if things would get any better but that hasn't help. Iby slomoray - Café LA Moving Project to Ext. Hard Drive - 14 years agoI've just finished my first FC Express project and would now like to move the project with all the elements(sequences, text, music, etc.) to an external hard drive, but am not sure how to do it. Is all the media copied so I can delete the original material from my computer after the transfer? Once this is done do I now just start deleting all the elements of the browser of the FC application? Thby slomoray - Café LA quicktime movie - 14 years agoI'm quite new to FCP express and have recently completely my first project and now am trying to make a DVD using IDVD. The problem i'm having is when I try and export a quiktime movie it comes out 4x3 and not the original 16x9. I did export one as a quicktime conversion but was told not to do it this way. This version however came out 16x9, and I could make a DVD out of it. The technical of makinby slomoray - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Creating a DVD in IDVD - 14 years agoI'm trying make my first DVD with FC Express using IDVD. Please excuse my lack of technical expertise here. After I create the Quick Time Conversation of my project and view the preview of it in IDVD, the movie video portion, as oppose to the video stills included, has horizontal lines going through the video. Not the stills however. I get the same effect sometimes when viewing the video in the Fby slomoray - Café LA Re: exporting IMovie to FCE - 15 years agoActually a portion of the project is edited in IMovies then exported to FC where I'm doing the bulk of the project. The Project will ultimately be output through FC. I used Imovies to build a few montages because it was easier for me. I'll now try and do everything in FC. Thanks for the help. Rayby slomoray - Café LA |
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