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Can you create keyframes for graphic filters in FCP
1. Can you create keyframes for graphic filters (non audio)in FCP
2. If so, can you save those keyframe settings as a preset?
Thank you
Tracy Burroughs
Little Men Entertainment
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8 Replies
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same answer that Shane gave you on your previous post asking an almost identical question!!
Yes.
adam
Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
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Tracy,
Yes, of course you can make keyframes on filters. Only problem is how bad keyframes suck in FCP. You can’t copy and paste them, only “paste attributes” which is retarded at best. You can’t swap them either, so if you want to reverse an effect you have to manually do it over. Also if you apply a transition over keyframes you have to physically drag them to the beginning and/or end of the transition.
Still looking forward keyframing in FCP? It only gets worse. You can save effects as a favorite, but it will be lost if you trash your prefs. Saving a favorite does not save keyframes, although it will save basic settings, where pasting attributes will paste keyframes. A lot of users make favorites project-specific by saving them in a different bin, but then you have to open that project to get at them, which I guess isn’t too bad if you get used to doing it. Maybe someone else has a trick for saving keyframes, I lost the patience to find a way to do that 3 versions ago. One last thing, velocity controls? Ha! Good luck.
Well there you go, you got me on a mini-rant which I wasn’t even thinking about. It’s just that keyframing is a totally basic functionality Apple has ignored after all this time, and by the look of things always will. Give me REAL keyframes and background rendering, and I would shut up forever.
Have fun!
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Adam,
Somethings strange happend with the previous post, because what was posted is the question I asked in the MOtions forum, so I reposted my question.
I know now that in Motion I can save a filter setting with keyframes as a favorite. by draging the filter, after I”ve made adjustments, to the library.
In FCP you can save graphic filter attributes by dragging, but you can’t save the keyframes that go with it.
Am I correct in that assumption.
Thanks
Tracy Burroughs
Little Men Entertainment
little-men.com/LME.html -
Thanks for the responce. To summarize, in FCP you can save graphic filter attributes, by dragging the filter to a folder in the bin, but not the keyframes that go with them.
Is that correct?
Another topic: I know how to keyframe the motion part of a clip (scale, time, etc.) but how do you key frame a graphic filter?
Thanks
Trace
Tracy Burroughs
Little Men Entertainment
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could you be more specific – what do you mean by a Graphic Filter?
adam
Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK -
Tracy,
After you apply a filter, double click on the clip to open it in the viewer. There will now be a filters tab, it’s exactly like the motion tab.
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Thank you!
Tracy Burroughs
Little Men Entertainment
little-men.com/LME.html -
I meant to say video filters and video transitions.
Tracy Burroughs
Little Men Entertainment
little-men.com/LME.html
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