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Animations in Final Cut Pro – need guidance
Hello, and I’m a first time poster.
Simple question. I have a supporting department, called Creative Services – designers etc. that I am asking to provide me with some sort of animation that they could create that I can incorporate into a video as atrial. I’m asking them to use the Walmart Commercial animated happy face that runs all over the video footage.
What do I ask them to make the file as, or creat it in, and what are all the possibilities that are available to me? I don’t want to be limited to just one option please, with my luck theoption you suggest they might not have the program to creat it in. Please send me a number of options.
Thanks,
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Welcome to the Cow, Tony! As memory serves, the Walmart smiley sort of “hovers” near things & then moves on, or bounces on ’em. I mention this because if you need to do something like that with it, your graphics (gfx) folks will need a reference to create the animation. Usually a Quicktime of the shot from the timeline is used – just the portion where the gfx go. OR, a faster approach, they could give you a couple of different expression animations of the smiley (happy, surprise, whatever) that are otherwise static onscreen. These anims would have alpha (aka matte, hicon, key) channels, & you’d simply place them on your timeline over where they need to go. Use the motion & distort tabs to give the smiley motion & bounce. As for animation software, the best thing is just tell ’em “to use whatever they’ve got, just give me a Quicktime with an alpha channel.” If it’s only the smiley, the QT can be any size (probably smaller than 720×480/6), as you’ll resize it. If you give them a QT background (BG), they return it same size/framerate with smiley on top. NOTE: any animation that has fast movement will need to be “field rendered” so it doesn’t “jitter” on interlaced video. BTW, the standard apps for this sorta thing would be After Effects, Combustion, Motion, etc. Have fun & enjoy our pasture!
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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