New Free FCP X Photo Album Effect

[Brendan Gibbons]

Nice work this Robbert-Jan!!

Have you not been sleeping for the past few weeks to come up with this magnificent effect? 😉

Cheers,

BG

[Robbert-jan Van der does]

Thanks Brendan.
I must say that it is extremely addictive. And judged by the amount of effects you and Simon generate (and by the time you posted 🙂 ) I can conclude that the same must be true for you as well.
But before I start on something new I will first download the effects you guys posted. I even haven’t had time to do that.
One thing I definitely learned: I am not good in making video tutorials. I tried to do this and ended up with several Gigabytes of utterly useless screen recordings. I decided to make the graphic overview instead.

Cheers,
robbert-jan

[Simon Ubsdell]

Beautifully done – looks like it took some serious work!

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

[Robbert-jan Van der does]

Thanks Simon. And to answer your question I can be very short: Yep!
But it was very satisfying getting it to work the way I intended.
I’m going to enjoy my holidays now. Thank God my MacBook Pro is too old to run Motion 5 and FCPX. I can’t get tempted the next two weeks 🙂

Cheers,
Robbert-Jan

[Geoff Dills]

Very nice work Robbert. As a former resident of Nederland (Dordrecht), dank u wel.

Best,
Geoff

[Robbert-jan Van der does]

Alsjeblieft.
Beautiful city by the way, Dordrecht.

Robbert-Jan

[Nick Toth]

Very nice! Enjoy your holiday!

NT

[Simon Ubsdell]

As you say, this stuff is dangerously addictive 😉

Enjoy your holiday!

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

[Brendan Gibbons]

[Simon Ubsdell] “As you say, this stuff is dangerously addictive ;-)”

Indeed, can you remember what you did with your spare time “pre motion 5 rigging” ???….lol

Cheers,

BG

[Robbert-jan Van der does]

HOW TO SET UP A PHOTO ALBUM.
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STEP 1: The Cover Page.

If you start the build of an album you would first use the Cover page. Here you have 2 options:

1) – Cover Page+Single Photo Page
This is a page with a protection sheet and 1 picture. The page has a dark grey paper background.
After choosing this option continue with:
STEP 2.

2) – Cover Page+Photo Page for Multiple Photo’s
This is a page with a protection sheet and because this one has a transparent background, you can use this to put the next photo underneath this one.
After choosing this option continue with:
STEP 1a.
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STEP 1a: More than one photo on the page:

Put the clip for the next PHOTO on that same page directly underneath the first clip and make sure it starts and ends at the same time as the first clip.
For this clip (PHOTO) you have two options:

3) – Subsequent for multiple photos
It has no cover page and no transparent overlayed protection page (these are already present in the first clip) and a transparent background.
If you use this option the clip will be the second (OR third, OR fourth if you stack more clips, but NOT the last as it has no paper background).
After choosing this option continue with:
STEP 1a, option 3)
or
STEP 1a, option 4).

4) – Last in Stack for multiple photos.
This option also doesn’t show the cover page and protection page, but it DOES have a grey paper background. So this option is always used on the clip that will be on the the bottom of the stack, so it can be the second AND last, third AND last, fourth AND last, etc. (all clips with the same length, stacked right on top of each other).
After choosing this option continue with:
STEP 2.
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STEP 2: The next page in the album:

Again two options:

5) – Single photo page
This page has no cover but does have the protection page and does have a paper background).
After choosing this option you are finished if it is the last page in your album, ELSE continue with:
STEP 2 option 5)
or
STEP 2 option 6).

6) – Top in stack for multiple photos
This page has no cover, does have the protection page but does NOT have a paper background (background is transparent).
If you chose this option you can put the clip for the next PHOTO on that same page directly underneath the this clip and make sure it starts and ends at the same time as this clip.
After choosing this option continue with:
STEP 1a, option 3)
or
STEP 1a, option 4).

You can repeat this process for as many pages you want to create.
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Timing

For the timing of the PAGES (a single clip can be a page, or a stack can be a page) make sure that you move every NEXT page (clip or stack) TWO seconds to the left in the timeline and UNDERNEATH the PREVIOUS page (clip or stack). By doing this the animation will be as follows:

0 – 1 sec – just the cover page is shown
1 – 2 sec – the cover page is turned over
2 – 3 sec – the protection sheet is turned over
3 – 4 sec – the picture(s) is/are shown (longer if you extend the clip’s length.
Last 1 sec – the photo page is turned over revealing the next photo page starting at the 2-3 sec point.

For the rest of the controls you’d best try them out. They are quite self explanatory.

Kind regards,

Robbert-Jan van der Does
lighting cameraman/steadicam operator/editor

WISIWYG (What I See Is What You Get)