Creating comic strip style word bubbles for FCP

[Tom Wolsky]

You need to make that in a graphics application like Photoshop or Illustrator.

All the best,

Tom

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[Paul Bruneau]

There is a dedicated software to do just this kind of thing. I saw it at the Apple store today. Can’t remember the name exactly, something like “Cartoon”.

[Blub06]

You can use the 8 point garbage matte, but it is a bit of a clunky tool.

Chris

[Walter Biscardi]

Just use the Shapes tool and choose an Oval. Make a large oval and a few more smaller ones, then just lay them out in your thought bubble pattern

Key those over your video and apply a Text layer on top of that.

It’s a lot easier in photoshop, but you can do this in FCP by layering it all together.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

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[Mark Raudonis]

The software is called “Comic Life” by Plasq. This has to be my favorite mac program (besides FCP) that I’ve every used.

It absolutely ROCKS!. You have to check it out. https://plasq.com/

You can export to video directly from this program. Did I say that I LOVE this program?

Mark

[Christopher Bagnall]

Thanks everyone!