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  • Workflow for adding photos

    Posted by Eric Garten on July 28, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    First off I am a hack;
    I’ve read through 2 instruction books,
    subscribe to to online tutorials like Mac Pro video,
    and have shamelessly lurked on your threads in the past,
    enough to make a few music videos with multi cams.

    I’m using 10.03 on an iMac with OS X 10.8.5

    I’m doing a DVD for my landlady where she is interviewing her grandson.
    so I made a multi cam clip from the two camera angles
    and blended the mics on to that track.
    she then wanted me to add a symphony from her grandfather, which worked well as a separate audio track,
    and finally she wanted me to add gaps of a few seconds each in the multi-cam
    and superimpose some family photos.

    The audio and video and gaps all work great;
    when I place the photos on top I want only them to be seen,
    and of course right now they are merely composited on top of the multi cam.
    if I do an overwrite edit, that solves the video problem, but i lose the audio from the multi-cam.
    if I try to break apart the audio, the audio tab shows unsupported clip and grays out the option to detach.

    Only workaround I stumbled upon, is to use blade edits to edit the multi cam clip at the edges of the photo
    and then control V the underlying clips and reduce the opacity to zero,
    which feels ultra amateur…

    Eric Garten replied 10 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Doug Metz

    July 28, 2016 at 7:57 pm

    IMO, best option would be to fill the frame with the photos. Barring that, you could use a generator or a solid color still image as a matte…

    Doug Metz

    Anode

  • Brett Sherman

    July 28, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    You can also add a solid black fill under the photos, but on top of the multicam clip. Go to Generators, select Custom Color. Drop into timeline.

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    Brett Sherman
    One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
    I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.

  • Eric Garten

    July 29, 2016 at 9:20 pm

    yes, yes, of course; good catch!
    thanx, fellas…

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