• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Overlaying titles rather than cutting footage

  Posted by Jonnie Lewis on March 19, 2014 at 6:46 pm

  Hi all,

  I usually edit with Premiere Pro but I’m doing a job for someone on Final Cut 7 at the moment.

  When adding titles to the uppermost empty track in the timeline (by dragging them from the Viewer window), it sometimes creates a cut in the video footage in lower tracks rather than overlaying the titles on top.

  Is there something I’m missing?

  Thanks in advance.

  Dave Farrants replied 12 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jonnie Lewis

  March 19, 2014 at 6:49 pm

  Ah, just worked it out. If there’s an outline where the title is about to be dropped, it’ll split the video footage and if there’s a solid dark grey block, it’ll be overlayed.

  Hope that’s it!

  Che
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  Dave Farrants

  March 19, 2014 at 6:52 pm

  You need to watch for a ‘down’ arrow when dropping onto the track, not an arrow pointing to the right.

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