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  • Frame Inverting/Reversing

    Posted by Stephen Metzger on April 3, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    So this could very likely be perceived as a dumb question, but I truly tried my best to figure it out/research it on my own to no avail: How do you reverse a frame in Final Cut Pro? I don’t mean playing it in reverse, I don’t mean inverting colors or what have you, I don’t mean flipping it upside down; I want to take a frame in which a face is on the left side and make it so that the face on the right side – essentially a mirror effect (backwards text and all that). I imagine that this is relatively simple, but I’m totally clueless.

    Josh Olenslager replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Josh Olenslager

    April 3, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    Try using the flop effect — FCP effects/Video effects/Perspective.

    Best of luck.

    Josh

    Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion

  • Stephen Metzger

    April 3, 2009 at 11:37 pm

    Thank you kindly, Josh. As I was typing the original post – specifically the word “mirror” – a light bulb went on over my head. I put “mirror” into the help search, and it brought up the perspectives submenu – life changing!!! (I couldn’t think of any more synonyms for reverse [for searching purposes] until “mirror” just popped into my head.) I figured out how to do what I wanted (flop works just fine), and then I spent about an hour and a half creating basic text animations with the “curl” filter instead of working on the video I was supposed to be doing for Work-work.

  • Josh Olenslager

    April 4, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    No problem at all. Glad you were able to figure out what you needed.

    Josh

    Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion

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