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Too Hard To Explain IN Subject Line
Sorry for that subject line, I just forgot what this technique was called.
It’s where you have a person, then you freeze their image and zoom it in adding some sort of picture effect to it. You see it a lot in skate promos.
The only example I can think of at the moment is a video game promo for Battlefield Bad Company 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tghR38F7qpI
WHen the images freeze and zoom in.
I went to one of those FCP demos at a Mac store one day and the instructor demod a very simple way this could be done easily inside FCP. This was 3-4 years ago so I figured the steps would be even easier with the most recent FCP.
Any help on how to accomplish this would be appreciated
Vinnie
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Keyword search “Time-remapping.”
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Not time remapping, I know how to speed up the clip.
Sorry, that was a bad preview for an example. Here’s a better example and the original one I was thinking of but couldn’t remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8jbt0wBkMI
Skip to 1:15 where they start intro’ing the actors, zooming up to them, changing the color, and putting the names next to their faces.
I know time remapping , pausing the video, keyframing it to zoom up to the screen. But while staying in FCP, isn’t there a way to do all that color effect.
The instructor did something super quick and easy. Maybe it’s what I mentioned above and just placing another layer over the video messing with the opacity and RGB color?
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The one you’re showing here is done in Photoshop. Exported still frame fixed up in Photoshop with a small fast scale.
All the best,
Tom
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Yeah, I think there is more than one way to do that within FCP. Basically it could be a duo-tone or tri-tone filter plug-in, a solarization plug-in, or to do it from scratch, two instances on stacked video tracks of using the 3-way color corrector to selectively tint, using the sampling eyedropper and the “limit effect” button. That’s what I’d try on it, anyway, though my first instinct would be to export the still to Photoshop, do a fast roto mask, modify the colors there and add textures, and re-import the modified master still back to the timeline, adding some more scaling effects to impart a slight motion.
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Mr. Wolsky & Mr. Suszko,
Thanks for the useful info. I figured photoshop but was trying to take an easy way out. Maybe the instructor I watched years ago did take it into photoshop and I am just recalling it wrong. Thanks again for the info.Vinnie
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