• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  a few final cut queries

  Posted by Chris Rubino on December 16, 2008 at 11:45 am

  hi all,
  i´m relatively new to fcp after years working with avid. Recently i encountered a few problems in edits and would like to know if there are any quick fixes

  1) I can, on some clips, shift the key frames in the timeline back and forth, (the fey fram/filter bar is activated). but on some clips, I cannot do this even though i can see the key frames and move them individually. But i want to be able to move all key frames back and forth. Why is there a difference and how can i activate a clip so i can slip the keyframes in a timeline?

  2) I had to make a freeze frame of a complicated composite in the timeline. When i did this, not all of the image was in frame and i had to work around it by exporting a graphic and importing it. What am I doing wrong?

  3) In avid, there is a reformat option where i can resize stretched fha anamorphic to 16/ letterbox. Is there a similar function in fcp or do i have to reset the timeline settings? And what do i do if i am integrating a single fha clip into a pal 4/3 edit? Manual resize or is there a filter?

  thanks for any help I get

  chris

  Chris Poisson replied 17 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Chris Poisson

  December 16, 2008 at 2:09 pm

  Chris,

  1. FCP’s keyframes are woeful at best. You can move them in the timeline if the keyframe option is selected in the user options timeline tab, but it is sometimes best to double click the clip and move them in the motion tab. You cannot move one past another like you can in AE.

  2. That’s a puzzle. Try exporting a frame using QuickTime with conversion. Nesting sucks too.

  3. This one will work in the distort tab. Sometimes I use image and wireframe shift/drag the corner of the clip in the canvas to get it close, then go into the distort tab and make it numerically correct.

  Have a wonderful day.

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