Split Screen/Picture in Picture made easier?

[Richard Harrington]

lay slug in the track…

apply motion effect

subclip all your clips

cut up timeline to music

Use Copy Paste attributes to replace to vontent of the track

Although seems like more work to me

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork

[Nick Meyers]

“to avoid having to paste the motion attributes to every clip I put in”

don’t copy / paste attributes…
use Motion favourites!

select an effected clip in the timeline, or have it open in the viewer,
Effects > Make Favorite Motion (Controf f)

a motion Favourite will appear in your favorites bin (Apple 6 to view)
it will be named after the clip it came from, and now is the time to re-name it “box1”, or “upper left” or what ever works for you.

you can drag thes emotiun fave from hte favorites bin onto a clip, OR GROUP OF CLIPS to apply the motion effect.
(you can aso copy them into yrou project, where they igt be easier to get at)

but the REAL power of these comes when you assign a keyboard comand to them.

make your 6 faves and call tehm 1-6 in some way.
now open the keyboard cutomize window (option h)
type “motion” into the search window,
you will see 8 “Motion Path Favourite” commands.

the defaults dont work for me, so i use Control Apple 1-8 (number pad)
these will now trigger the 1st 8 saved motion effects in your favorites bin.
so for me, i can select a clip, or group of clips, Ctrl Apple 1 makes it a left-hand box, Ctrl Apple 2 makes it a right hand box

sounds like a bit of work, but it’s invaluable.

one thing i’ve been doing latley is loading a clip from the browser into the viewr, and adding my motion effec there.
then it gets cut into the timeline with the effect applied.

nick

[Andy Mees]

as ever with FCP theres load of ways to skin whatever cat you are currently giving the treatment

another means to your desired end is to use nested sequences
create a different sequences for each position, add the clips as wanted to these sequences, and then edit the sequences to each track or the master sequence. then apply the wanted motion attributes to each of the nests rather than the clips within the nest. you can easily keep this as a template, chopping and changing each sequence of clips as and when required