FCP X Time Savers

[Robin S. kurz]

Sure. You always could. If you built it yourself in Motion.

– RK

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[Simon Ubsdell]

[Scott Witthaus] “so, can I soften the edges on a crop in FCPX yet? ;-)”

Here’s a popular free effect that I made a while back that does some useful cropping stuff including soft edges and a lot more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fMExxKr20w

Download link:

https://tokyo-uk.com/fcpxeffects/freedownloads/TKY_SuperCrop.zip

Or you could make it yourself, as Robin says.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo-uk.com

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[Scott Witthaus]

That’s perfect, Simon. Thank you.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[David Mathis]

Thanks, really nice effect. Been trying to figure out how to feather each side in a different amount. Sure it is something super simple that I am overlooking.

One thing I have been trying to do is publish a levels effect from Motion into FCP X. Was able to build sliders for the lift, gamma and gain for each color channel, though it took a few minutes setting up rigs. Now if I could only figure how to add saturation for the lift, gamma and gain controls. Sometimes that color box feels kind of awkward to me.

[Andy Neil]

[David Mathis] “Been trying to figure out how to feather each side in a different amount. Sure it is something super simple that I am overlooking.
“

You just have to think outside the box a little. You can do it with 4 individual masks or shapes that represent the sides of the crop. Since each “side” is it’s own mask or shape, it can have it’s own feather amount.

Andy

https://plus.google.com/u/0/107277729326633563425/videos

[Bret Williams]

Geez AE only got variable feathering a little over a year ago. And premiere didn’t have the ability to feather the crop tool until CS6. Not sure what their excuse was. X has always had an effect called crop and feather ( or is it mask and feather?). It’s just not the obvious crop tool effect. Should be able to get creative.

[Dave Gage]

[Robin S. Kurz] “Yes, that’s a simple BLOOM transition. Available by default in FCP.”

Okay, I see it now. I incorrectly thought this was a “flash” as it looks like a camera flash to me.

I don’t like the way it looks by default in FCPX and there are no controls for it in the Inspector. I own, but have never used Motion. Do you know if there are other control parameters that could be applied to the transition in Motion? It would be nice to at least be able to control the amount of “bloom” and size and location, etc.

Thanks,
Dave

[Robin S. kurz]

[Dave Gage] “Do you know if there are other control parameters that could be applied to the transition in Motion?”

Yepp.

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[Simon Ubsdell]

[Bret Williams] “Not sure what their excuse was. X has always had an effect called crop and feather ( or is it mask and feather?). It’s just not the obvious crop tool effect. Should be able to get creative.”

X has a tool called Crop and Feather but you can only feather the whole crop uniformly – that’s why my TKY SuperCrop effect (above) is so superior to Apple’s offering. Not to mention that you can crop using onscreen controls for each edge, etc. which is simply not catered for at all by Apple.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo-uk.com

[Bret Williams]

I’m confident it kicks Apple’s tools a… Just was pointing out that X wasn’t as completely useless as the OP alleged.