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Sure this is probably simple…just never had to do it before
I have a clip playing at original speed and want it at some point to stop and become a still frame for the duration of a timeline for an open.
I have six different clips that are playing full screen…they push back and I want them to freeze while the next video comes in full and does the same…yatta…yatta…yatta until the final one comes in…pushes back and freezes for an instant and then I will effect out to a full screen logo.
Any suggestions…can I do this with time-remap…I did not see any keyframing capabilities with that?
Thanks so much,
Tim Baker
Chameleon Mobile Video Productions
(239)849-3295
“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.” -
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Perhaps you could “make freeze frame” at the framer where you want the picture to stop, and cut that in for the required duration.
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I thought about that…just exporting to photoshop…etc., but I would think there would be maybe a faster/easier way within FCP.
Wishful thinking I guess…lol.
Tim Baker
Chameleon Mobile Video Productions
(239)849-3295
“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.” -
Use Clip Keyframes (located down a the lower left of the timeline window, between the Audio Controls and Toggle Clip Overlays buttons). Turn on Clip Keyframes
Back in the timeline, select the Time Remap Tool – sss and click on the frame in the clip that you want the freeze frame to start. You’ll see a blue motion bar and a keyframe added. Move the playhead forward in the timeline by the duration of the freeze frame (1 sec, 5 sec, etc). Add another keyframe on the clip (not the motion bar).
Control-click in the gray area under the motion bar and select Time Remap>Time Graph. You should see a graph with the keyframes that you added. With the Remap Tool selected, place it on the clip at the second keyframe. When you click it, a yellow tooltip box comes up. At the bottom you’ll see “Speed Left”. Drag the Remap tool to the left until the value reads 0%. That is your freeze frame. The speed graph will be a horizontal line.
If you are going to return your clip to normal speed after the freeze frame, you’ll need to click the Time Remap tool on the last frame of the clip and drag it to the left until it reads Speed Left: 100%.
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[boydmcc] “Control-click in the gray area under the motion bar and select Time Remap>Time Graph. You should see a graph with the keyframes that you added.”
this is actually an optional step. It allows you to visually see the change you are making.
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I may be missing some complexity here, but shift-N will make a freeze-frame for you, then edit it into the timeline like any other clip. The manuals are our friends…
Nick
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Man I looked thru the manual and did not see squat after a freeze frame search. The Cow is better than any manual and almost as fast.
Thanks for all the tips though…you guys are great.
Love the Cow.
Tim Baker
Chameleon Mobile Video Productions
(239)849-3295
“It is not the light at the end of the tunnel that we should seek…it is the courage to take the next step in the dark that we must find.” -
What I have my students do is pull down each menu in the applications, and figure out what each choice does my experimenting. Then, if they can’t figure it out, they need to look it up.
Works great to get acquainted with the possibilities quickly.
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And I’m not exactly what he’s trying to accomplish, but the beauty of shift+n is also that it doesn’t just create a still of a clip, but whatever you’re seeing in the viewer. So if you have 20 layers of stills all over the screen, it will create a single frame that can replace all that.
Destructive compositing at it’s finest.
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It is easy – Steven is giving the right answer.
Here’s the sequence for doing it (assuming you are not using F10 for Expos
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