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  • lines appearing between parts of image during a ‘cube spin’ transition

    Posted by Elissa Mintz on January 17, 2006 at 12:47 am

    Hi, everybody.

    Here’s my situation: I imported a JPEG (a company logo) into FCP 5.0.4 and shrunk it down to a smallish rectangle. I created two mattes for it: one big blue one that covers the entire image area behind the logo, and one mid-size white matte, to “expand” the image area of the JPEG (because the JPEG contains text that’s jammed up against the edges of the image, and I wanted to give the text “breathing room” on the screen).

    Then, preceding this stationary logo/matte thing, I inserted a cube spin transition. The transition is on all three tracks of the logo: On the blue matte track, the white matte track, and the JPEG track.

    Everything works beautifully, EXCEPT for this: When the JPEG image is doing its cube spin, you can see a tiny black line around the outline of the image. When the cube spin is over, you can’t see the thin black line anymore.

    Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?

    Many thanks,

    Rumi Girl

    Elissa Mintz replied 20 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • David Battistella

    January 17, 2006 at 1:28 am

    Double click on the jpeg image and put it in the viewer.

    In the motion tab go to crop

    Try setting all of those numbers to 1 or .5

    top
    left
    right
    bottom

    this might fix it.

    if not.

    oopen the image in photoshop and then change the canvas size to a larger size. Fill with the white color and crop it to it’s desired size in FCP.

    David

    The new year is over

  • David Battistella

    January 17, 2006 at 1:33 am

    Ps:

    using option two means you will no longer need the white matte. It will save you one layer of video.

    David

    I can’t believe it’s not butter!

  • Elissa Mintz

    January 17, 2006 at 8:47 pm

    Thanks, David. I did the first thing — the changing of the crop settings in FCP — but that didn’t seem to help. I bet option two (editing the JPEG in PhotoShop) would’ve worked, but I’m a total PhotoShop newbie and didn’t quite have enough time to experiment with that solution. So I just redesigned the transition. But thank you! Now I have to go learn PhotoShop… — Rumi Girl

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