NEW FCPX Suped-up Super 8 Effect (Beta)

[Brendan Gibbons]

Nice one!

I was working on a similar effect, now mine just feels like a pale imitation of yours 🙂

Cheers,

Brendan

[Ethan Young]

Just dropped this into my favorites folder, very cool effect!

I could use a custom filter to put on still photos for a look that I often have to create manually. I have no idea how difficult it would be to create in Motion, I’d be happy to pay someone for throwing it together. Let me know if anyone is interested.

Here is a clip that shows the effect: https://vimeo.com/ethanedit/panels

Here is how I create it manually in FCPX:

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Ethan Young] “I could use a custom filter to put on still photos for a look that I often have to create manually.”

Hi Ethan

Looks like that would be pretty easy to do – assuming you have some set timings which it looks as though you do. Do you want to email me so we don’t take up the forum with this?

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Brendan Gibbons]

Here’s a rough preset that I think is close to the concept you want

FCP X BG You’re on the Panel

FCP X custom effect to have a still or video reveal panel by panel. Transition off in reverse order

There are controls to adjust the scale and width of each mask.

The animation is set for each panel to animate in over 10 frames with a couple of frames overlap.

You can trim the effect to be as long as you need and the transition on and off will always be the same length if you leave the animate on / animate off boxes ticked in the parameters.

Depending on the size of the still images you have you may have to play around with the mask size and position of each panel to get the desired look.

Let me now if you want any adjusted timings done.

Extract to a folder of your choosing inside /user name / movies / motion templates / Effects
(e.g extract to a new folder called “Custom Effects”)

Cheers,

Brendan

[Brendan Gibbons]

Whoops sorry for butting in there with a preset….I did not refresh the posts before posting my reply.

Sorry simon.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Ethan Young]

Thanks Brandon, I think it’s good to cross-pollinate on the forums, good way to solve problems. As usual your design is outstanding, I’m going to play around with this filter. (ie, there goes my Saturday night!)

[Ethan Young]

I love that you can scale the entire image and it retains all of the filter effects, this is going to save so much time. The timings are perfect on the fades. A sister filter with a slower reveal time may be handy as well.

Also, I don’t know if it’s possible with the masks, but something that could really be useful is the ability to quickly place each gap where you want it to be (between people, objects) and have it retain its size, so all the gaps were always uniform. However, the controls you have now do the job fine with a bit of eyeballing.

I wonder if there is a way to assign the position of the right side of panel A and the left side of panel B in one control… These are definitely mathematics I am not qualified to contemplate!….on that note, can you set the original gap width a tiny bit smaller?

I really appreciate you and Simon for being so innovative and willing to share your talents. You guys are putting out some really good stuff.

[Sean Thomas]

Ethan – that’s the way I would do it. Did an entire sequence years ago in AE. I had different sized boxes all moving with keyframes to form the final image.

A plug-in would be nice if it had enough controls for customization.

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[Sean Thomas]

Silly question – where do you put plugs/filters/effects in FCP X

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[Brendan Gibbons]

Here’s a slower version of the panel effect. Twice as long reveals as originals. (20 frames)

FCP X BG You’re on the Panel (slower)

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Brendan