Brian Dunning
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No I thought of that — when I click it on and off, the (object + its miniature path) jumps between where it is shown here and the center of the screen.
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Oooohhhhh — now I feel like an idiot for not thinking of that. Thanks, does the trick. 🙂
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I am currently hacking this by rotating the sprites in Photoshop and re-importing them. Does the job in a one-off way, but it’s a hack. Since there are multiple motion paths and I want it pointing different ways as it travels, I have to make a different file for each. Not the end of the world.
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My bad, I shouldn’t have said 90 degrees, because it’s some random angle. Neither horizontal nor vertical gives me the correct angle. I need finer control than that, I’d say it’s off by about 60 degrees. Thanks for your speedy reply though. 🙂
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My mistake. I will move this to the FCPX forum.
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Trying it the other way around produced the same behavior. Whether it’s a problem with my PSDs or a problem with FCPX, the layers do not like retaining their properties when split apart and/or compounded together.
I solved it by saving all the PSD layers as individual PNGs. Layered them on the timeline, started and stopped them when I wanted each to appear and disappear, then compounded them and applied my pans and zooms. Worked a charm, and because the individual PNGs were so much smaller than the huge PSD I even had improved performance.
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Here’s a new one — I did as you described, got my background all panned and zoomed and keyframed and happy, and then hit “break apart clip items” to do my opacity keyframes. As soon as I selected that, I lost all the previous movement. The clip went to a large default zoomed-way-in view.
I’m now going to try it the other way around and see if that works better: break it apart first, then do the opacity keyframes, then convert it into the compound clips for the panning & zooming. Will report.
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Thank you, Nick. I was about to try Bret’s suggestion when your reply came in — I had no idea it was possible to view the layers of a PSD in the timeline! Seems so obvious now.