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Moving a clip around as we could using Motion panel
Not going to get the language correct here, but in FCP7 I could for example enlarge a clip in the viewer then move it around so I could show whatever bits of the enlarged shot I wanted… or even move some of it off screen so it had black around it.
I used to have wireframe on (i think) so I would just grab the clip in the canvas and move the baby.
Can’t see how to do it in FCPX, could someone please let me know.
Cheers
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I’m assuming you don’t just want to zoom into the viewer to see it in detail.
Click the Transform button in the lower left. Select transform, crop, or distort. Transform gives you scale, rotation, anchor point, pretty much like wireframe in 7.
All the best,
Tom
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Blinding Tom. Many thanks again. That’s exactly what I wanted, to enlarge the clip and place it where i wanted. Now I know the tool I can research it further.
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You can also do all of that in the inspector. Clip your clip in timeline, and the open inspector and yo can keyframe it all in there. BTW, when you use the transform as previously described, you need to click done when finished.
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Great, cheers Tony. Now I know it is called transform I can see that in the Inspector.
Not sure I like the visual keyframes being attached to the clip in the timeline, but at least I found them. For a bit I was wondering where the hell the visual side was. Personally would have preferred it in the inspector, but then again, personally I would have preferred FCP8 so I guess i’m not going to get much sympathy 🙂
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Select a clip in the Timeline, then open the Inspector. You can click and drag (or enter a specific value in) the X and/or Y position (just as in Motion). You can even set keyframes. You can also click on the icon on the bottom left of the Viewer window and select Crop, then click the Ken Burns button that appears in the bottom of the Viewer, where you can set keyframes and manipulate the scale and position of the clip from right within the Viewer, using onscreen controls.
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Thanks. I have been told about the transform button which allows me to move in the viewer. Is there any way of just having that permanently on – the ability to move in the viewer – the way we could have the wireframe thing permanently on in FCP7.
Sometimes it just seems like there are so many extra button pushes to do the same thing as before because before you could set things up to work the way you work. Here it seems so much is only temporarily on then you have to turn it on again when you use it again.
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