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Using filters as transitions
Hey Guys,
Avid editor here trying to do something that I just can’t figure out the functionality in FCP.
I want to use the *bloom* filter as a transition. So in AVID I would add effect to the clip, go to the last 10 frames (I want the transition to be a total of 20 frames) and add an edit…remove effect from first part of clip so it doesn’t have to render…then keyframe the values over 10 frames to produce the transition point. (do the opposite on the incoming clip)
I can then save that effect and apply it to any 10 frame clip and it will do it over and over. I can’t seem to get this to work in FCP, I’m sure it works differently…but I can’t seem to figure it out. The placement of keyframes from my saved effect is boggling. What it’s doing doesn’t make any sense. – it places keyframes well outside of the bounds of the used clip.
Any help for an old AVID guy? 🙂
-Jason
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6 Replies
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Funny you should ask this…
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/filter-transition.php
Shane
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Great…thanks Shane!
This is exactly how I do it in the AVID, but now how do I save that effect to apply to another 10 frame clip (incoming and outgoing)?
-Jason
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try this: Filters as Transitions
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Unfortunately you can’t save that effect with the keyframing, so what I do is select the clip with the effect, COPY that clip, then PASTE ATTRIBUTES>FILTERS (OPT-V) onto the new clip. The keyframes will adjust to the size of the clip. So if you had a 10 frame effect, that you then pasted to a 30 frame clip, the keyframes would stretch to fill out that 30 frames.
Shane
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I understand your workflow and how this circumvents saving a favorite effect. HOWEVER…when I save this effect, it DOES retain the keyframes…it just doesn’t place them correctly. Any idea as to how it is placing the keyframes? If so, I could figure out how to get to work.
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Great post Andy…
Do you have the CustomFX project available? 🙂
-Jason
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