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Clip within a clip
Great things posted on this forum, I continue to learn a lot. I did have a quick question that I have not been able to find the answer to as I have searched the forums.
I am editing a talk that some one gave and they had PowerPoint slides that went with their talk. I want to pull the video of the speaker down into the corner of the video and display his PowerPoint presentation at the same time. I do have access to Keynote, and I can go the LiveType route. My question is two fold.
1.) Can FC play a clip within a clip and where can I access that feature?
2.) Can I drag and drop PP slides into the video via PP or Keynote or do I need to recreate his slides in LiveType?Thanks,
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If you have powerpoint on your mac, I’d just use that to save out the individual slides as still images, tiffs probably.
Most power point slides are not designed for video, so when you bring them into FCP, you might need to shrink them down (using the motion tab controls) to keep text within title-safe.
I think you’ll need 3 tracks of video in FCP.
On the bottom track, I’d put a nice background image that compliments the slides.
On the middle track, put the slides, perhaps add dissolves or whatever between them.
On the top track is the speaker. Use the controls in the motion tab in FCP to scale it down, perhaps crop the edges slightly. You might also want to add some kind of border and drop shadow.Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Graeme,
Thanks for the great advice, I would have never thought to use a third track. I appreciate the input.
Chris
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