Rebecca Black’s “Friday” intro effect?

[Christian Kinnard]

For the sketch effect, there’s several tutorials on Youtube for doing this in After Effects (and I’m guessing Motion). I had to do a book cover sketch for a film i was working on and some of the techniques got me far enough. I’d start there.

[Tom Matthies]

Nothing in there that can’t be done reasonably well right in FCP. Use Boris’ Charcoal Sketch for the moving person effects. FCP’s Edge detection won’t do it for you. Unfortunately the Charcoal Sketch filter is part of Boris’ Continuum collection. It might be available separately, however. Check their website.Borisfx.com
There is already a cheesy page turn effect in FCP and more available as free downloads-Google it.
The alarm clock is just a combination of keyframed effects. Edit together the numerical time elements as a separate track and motion track it onto the alarm clock face. Or compose the entire clock bit as a standalone clip and import it back into FCP. Then you can add motion/garbadge matte keyframes and everything will still line up perfectly. You might want to to build the numerical elements as a stand-alone clip and then do a speed ramp on it to get the speed up effect. Use the Charcoal filter again to create the clock and then transition to the video of the clock. Use a keyframed garbage matte to open up the clock as it comes forward to full video.
The rest of the graphic elements can be easily created using Photoshop or another graphics program where you can compose type/graphics. Possibly even just using the included Boris Title 3D that comes with FCP.
Some of the clips will be easier to use if you either Nest them and/or export them as separate clips and then import them back into the project. Make sure you leave a little extra pad on both ends of the clip for the transitions. It will make the page turn section painless.
All in all, it’s actually pretty easy video to reproduce. Have fun.
Tom

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[Bret Williams]

I could do it all in FCP with a sketch plug. This is more like an After Effects 3.x project circa 1997. And that is basically what FCP’s fx engine is completely based on. Except not anywhere near as elegant. Isn’t there a sketch plug in FCP of some sort? Line art or something like that? Maybe it’s a Boris CC thing. Free 30 day demo of some FCP plugin out there I’m sure.

But, yeah, it really is more of an AE or Motion thing.

[Joe Becker]

not the best video ever
I didn’t have access to the band
they were in sacramento
I had to get this shot and edited
so we took the singer all over the Phoenix area
and shot the song over and over
then I applied a bunch of effects in FCP
I didn’t do any of the motion stuff in this one
but the effects used in the Friday video are available in FCP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bWF8ozTptc

the motion stuff and masking tools are also available in FCP
I did this whole thing in Motion
but you can use keyframes to move stuff in FCP
you can resize video on different layers
just play until you get it
it’ll all make sense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgSo3CkT9Jg

Joe Becker
jbeckercreative

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