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TKY Free FCPX Clone Effect
For repair work and other sorts of touch-up where you need to be able to remove objects (or even just dead pixels) by sampling from elsewhere in the frame, here’s a free Clone Effect Template.
There are controls for:
– Selecting the clone shape (circle or square);
– Adjusting the shape position, size, aspect ratio, rotation and shear, as well as feather and fall-off;
– adjusting the clone offset, and the source scale and rotation;
– adjusting the gamma and color balance of the cloned area to fine tune the match.The default settings have a red highlighted area for the clone shape which can be toggled on and off to make it easier to see what you are doing. Make sure it’s toggled off for final output!
The left hand set on onscreen controls affects the clone source offset and rotation.
The right hand controls (offset from the clone area centre to make it easier to see what’s going on) affect the position (inner ring), rotation (rotation handle) and aspect ratio (outer ring) of the clone shape.
Unzip the file and put the entire folder into your User/Movies/Motion Templates/Effects folder, preferably in new folder that makes it easier to find from the Effects menu inside FCPX.
Simon Ubsdell
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Simon,
As always, thanks again for your work.
Question: Aside from the fact that it might take a few extra seconds for FCP X to initially start up, is there any kind of performance hit that might come from having a lot of extra Effects and Generators loaded into the program? I wouldn’t think so, but I thought I’d ask.
Dave
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Hi Dave
To be honest, I don’t know for sure – my experience is that it makes no discernable difference, and I do have a very considerable number of my own templates now filling up the system.
What I have found though is that actually applying some apparently simple effects can really give your RAM a massive hammering – and as a result if you’re not careful you start having to render in order to be abale to carry on working.
And that’s something you absolutely don’t want to have to do, because FCPX is truly terrible at rendering!
Timothy Payton has a good post about this here:
https://fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/2175-looking-for-a-reason-to-actually-render-in-fcp-x
It is truly astonishing how slow it can be – whatever happened to all that 64-bit power?
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
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Simon,
[Simon Ubsdell] “Timothy Payton has a good post about this…”
Boy, that is crazy. I’m not a high end user or have clients so I haven’t had much in the way of issues with speed. I also picked up an early 2011 MPB i7 with 8 gigs of RAM a couple of months ago and that likely does help my circumstances. And, I have been playing with the freebie “FreeMemory” app which seems to do it’s job.
With the little I throw at FCP X, I haven’t found the need to turn off the background rendering and I do export with the basic “Share > Export Media – Current Settings” option to do the final export with x264 in Compressor.
As I get into bigger projects, I’ll definitely keep an eye on the rendering and RAM issues.
Thanks,
Dave -
Thank you for this! It’s exactly what I need for this project I am doing where I just discovered a dust spot on my sensor in a critical interview!
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