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need help with reflective text and a contest.
Hey all, I am a student at a vocational school in Maine. I have bin using FCP for about 2 years I am about to compete in Skills USA this weekend. This is a state wide competition and if I win I get to compete in Kansas city ageist the nation. I came in 3rd at the state level last year I hope to take gold this year. I need to make my 30 second promo stand out so I thought maybe I can use reflective text. I can make video clips reflect but am having problems, I have tried googleing but have had little luck does any one have a tute or help? thanks also if any one has any ideas of how I can make my promo stand out I would love to here them. PS I don’t no what the promo is about and can only use FCP no live type or motion 3 any help is great thanks.
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I have multiple ways you can do this.
You could make your text graphics in Photoshop (if you have that available) and export out as a png… that might be the easiest way to stylize your text.
You can use the “Mirror” Filter and apply it to the text, mirror on the y-axis.
You can manipulate the text with Distort (in your Motion tab) and add the “Flop” filter in combo to create a mirrored/reflective look. Basically make the negatives positive and the positives negative when you distort.
You can use Boris 3D (its one of your FCP text options) and change your y-skew.
I also like to “nest” my text as its own sequence, and then you can add all kinds of cool filters and effects to it in combo… a fun one is double-up your text layers on V1 and V2 tracks and add a “glow” or “light rays” filter to the V1 (background) layer. This makes it look like light is shining on your text from behind.
Don’t forget to use drop shadows (in your Motion tab), and stick with san serif fonts…
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