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Add basic motion attributes to entire track without pasting attributes into clips?
I am working on a rather complex fcp edit with 7 tracks. Each track stands for one channel in a 7 channel video installation which will be played synchronized on 7 screens in the end. I resized every track to a thumbnail size so that I can see all 7 channels next to each other in my sequenze. My aim is to do my edit and afterwards resize every track again to full size and play them out track by track. Now I applied several attributes to certain clips within my tracks. For example I resized one clip slightly and moved it 10 percent to the right. My problem is now that if I want to resize all my clips within a track again to fill out the whole screen the basic motion attributes like scaling will get lost in the single clips. At least if I do the rescaling with copy and paste basic motion. My question would therefore be if there is a way to add a basic motion to a whole track without influencing the basic motion attributes of the clips in the track?? Something like right click on the track and adjust the whole scale in every single clip in the track without influencing already edited scaling attributes in the clips in the track. I hope someone out there understands what I am talking about and can give me a tip.
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Are you talking about nesting? Put that sequence inside another sequence, then scale that new nested sequence.
Look up nesting in the User Manual, that may be what you’re trying to do, adjust a whole track at once, which contains already adjusted clips.
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Never had to think about this, but off the top of my head wouldn’t nesting have a problem? If you were to (say) zoom in 200% on one of the clips on the track for framing reason (or to place an extremely large image in an SD sized sequence), then nest the track and zoom back 50% you’d end up with black borders around the edges as the nesting ‘truncates’ the frame to the sequence output size…. Hope that makes sense…!
Personally, I’d try Motion, AE or Combustion with each of the clips arranged in the layers one after the other and then use the camera to fly around…
Todd.
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