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parenting and importing picture frames
Im trying to create the picture in picture frame look (that we saw in harry potter. I have to place video footage inside a digitally superimposed picture frame and using the basic 3d tool in final cut i can place each video clip on the wall at the right angle. However, i dont know of any parenting tool to link the clip to the pictureframe so i can manipulate both at the same time, otherwise adding all those key frames for each pictureframe, and video clip would be a pain in the neck. Because once i have them parented together, then i have to both zoom in and out on them and rotate them around the screen like leaves on the top of water.
To add to the mayhem, i have to key out the images in the picture frame, without photoshop. So i have to use a green 4 point garbage mattearound both the inside and the outside of the frame. just to squeeze my clip inside of the pictureframe.
There has got to be an easier way to accomplish this.
Is this even possible in final cut pro 4?
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You will start to do this Motion using motion tracking.
Or find a buddy who has After Effects.I’m not following why you can’t create a sequence that has the empty frame, place the movie in it, render and then hang the composited frame/movie on the wall. What you want to be doing is filling a transparent hole in the frame, not trying to fit your movie to fill the frame. Your transition from frames on a wall to leaves on water is lost on me.
I don ‘t mean to sound too harsh but it would have been better to have known how the effects were going to be accomplished before undertaking this project. There are many different ways to approach these things but they’re always far more difficult if the photography does not accommodate the needs of the effects designers.
bogiesan
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Hmm, so youre saying i should place a matte in the frame, make it 0% opacity, then place the video behind it. Export them together, then take my combo in final cuts basic 3d space, and place it on the wall in there, then animate my motion from that point on?
This is a very complex music video, and i knew what i was getting into, its for my personal making, not getting paid, so i can take as long as i want,
im going to eventually have 12 of these picture frames floating around at one time, do you suggest after everytime i finish one of them, i export the project, and re-import it to keep my number of video tracks down to realitivly just a few? because if i dont i can see my timeline becomming filled up rather quickly.
The only problem is, if i render my files together, and i see i need to go back and change something, its going to be impossible, unless i keep my previous project files in seperate sequences.
am i complicating a process that could be accomplished much simpler?
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