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Re-Center Wire Frame???
Hi,
I’m editing a Super 16mm movie I did. When they did the transfer, they left me with a little bit of black on the right side. (I know I should just bring it back and have them transfer it again but it’s a long story)So, I cropped the right side just enough so the black is no longer there and moved my frame a little bit to re-center it in the canvas so the frame has an even amount of black on each side. (So now, my center is no longer at (0,0) but at (20,0).
My problem is: I want to apply a vignette, but FCP uses (20,0) has the center which is the center of the wire frame, but since I cropped and moved my image, the real center of my frame is more around (10,0). What it does is that it doesn’t vignette evenly. The left corners have a bigger vignette than the right ones.
Anyone could help me to either move around the vignette or to re-center the wire frame without moving the image?
Also, while i’m here, since I shot in 16mm, anyone knows how much I could rescale my image to keep a good quality. Since I cropped it, to have my image back to fill the frame entirely, I need to put the scale at 106, would it be ok?
Thanks all, hope I was clear enough.
Tez
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6 Replies
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You can make a vignette in Photoshop and place it in the sequence using Composite Mode Travel Matte – Luma.
As a test try using the white still below on V1 with your clip on V2. Right click on the movie in V2 and select Composite Travel Matte – Luma
If you like the look you created, edit your movie as usual without the Matte. When finished Export your movie, place on V2 with the Matte on V1 Apply Composite mode Luma then export the final. Obviously this will require much rendering.
Its a round about way of applying a Vignette since your video was not correctly transferred.
Hope that helps.
Victor
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The standard FCP vignette has horizontal and vertical offset.So just set the same 20 pixel offset , adjust parameters to taste and then drag the filter to a new bin called filters and then you can apply that with the settings you want to multiple clips as required.
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If you want to apply the same vignette on everything you can nest your sequence into another and apply the vignette there.
StvN
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I’m using FCP 7 and I can’t find the Vignette Offset? Could you please lead me to it? I can’t seem to find anything on the web about it.
Thanks
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Not a fan of nests. But each to his own. Search this forum for opinions on the pros and cons of nesting.
In the Vignette filter you have exactly the same centering settings as the clips Motion tab. You will find a + target and two boxes to the right of the target selector. First box sets horizontal offset and the second does vertical.
Once you have set up one clip, you can drag the filter to a bin to save those exact settings to then drag onto multiple clips.
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I’m sorry mate, but I can’t find it!
If you could be a little more precise on where I could find the adjustment for the vignette I’d appreciate it.
Thanks.
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