Christopher Travis
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Ok I know I could just look this up somewhere else but seeing as your here..
When I asked about a “fit to fill” equivalent I wasn’t talking about speed changes really. I use f2f A LOT when putting together mobile handset instructional videos. I’ve found it by far the fastest way to perform this pretty repetitive task. We won’t be upgrading our systems any time soon here, I’m asking purely out of curiosity so feel free to ignore me if you wish.
Essentially I want, with 1 button press, to be able to take the frame I’m previewing and put it on the timeline at the frame my playhead is at on the timeline. Ideally I don’t want to have to mark ins or outs and I don’t want to ripple the sequence, and I’d like the new clip to essentially replace the old clip on the timeline without adjusting the ins or outs on the timeline. Yes, I want a “fit to fill” tool. Is there a similar tool in FCPX
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Oh, and are the retiming tools in x similar at all to 7? I love the way you can drag frames up and down the timeline to adjust speed. I like it because so often the goal of changing speed is not to make a clip a particular speed, but to get an action to happen at exactly the moment you want it to, and FCP7s method seems very natural to me.
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I wasn’t saying FCP7 retiming was superior to X, only to 6.
Good news about optical flow I suppose but TBH I’ve never achieved particularly good results with it, always end up with that ugly “aura” effect around any areas of movement.
No “fit to fill”? Thats a scary thought. I’ve come to use that tool a lot, especially in one of my more repetitive corporate jobs. Is there an similar/equivalent tool for getting the frame from the viewer onto playhead the canvas? I guess I could just insert/overwrite as appropriate but I think I would definitely mourn the loss of fit to fill.
Sorry for thread hijack btw.
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Retiming hint:
A little workaround for changing clip speeds in FCP6 without rippling the sequence or moving the clip to the end:
Park the playhead on the clip in question in the timeline.
Press “F” to bring up the master clip in the viewer
Adjust the speed of the master clip in the viewer
Then press F11 to “fit to fill” this adjusted clip back into the space occupied by the old one on the timeline.As long as you haven’t moved either playhead (on the timeline or the viewer) then you should have the speed adjusted clip in exactly the same place as it was before. So for example if you matched frame on the first frame of the clip in the timeline, then F11 back into it, the first frame should remain the same.
The retiming tools in FCP7 are far superior but still not perfect. Haven’t seen what they are like in FCPX yet
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I’m guessing you need to change your canvas view to “image & wireframe”
At the top of the canvas there are 3 buttons. The far right button is a dropdown menu of view options. Set that to “image & wireframe” then, if a clip is selected, and the playhead is on that clip, you can drag that layer around the canvas.
If this isn’t the problem let me know.
Another tip. Beware the “W” key. This is set by default to toggle between “image” and “wireframe” view modes. I can’t tell you how many times I accidentally hit this and spent ages wondering why I wasn’t getting playback in the canvas.
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” It is also a clear step towards more “mouse centric” editing rather then keyboard based editing.”
That’s what i thought at first but I just read this
Taken from: https://www.macgasm.net/2011/04/12/apple-announces-final-cut-pro/
“For those who are keyboard lovers (like me), FCP X seems to include far more in the way of keyboard commands. In his demo, Apple’s Randy Ubillos said, “everything can be driven from the keyboard.””
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Hey,
Thanks for your responses. Unfortunately reshooting is not an option as we are based in London and the shoot was done in Scotland.
Looking more closely at what the post house did, I think they took a still frame, cut a matte around the t-shirt, corrected the matte the turn the highlights on the t-shirt blue, and then corrected the face/background separately. Then key-framed the still t-shirt to move as the girls shoulders move. The more I look at it, the more shoddy it looks. She looks like she’s wearing a suit of armour.
But hey, the bosses are happy with the work the post-house has done, they just want to know if I can replicate it, which I think I can.
Thanks again.
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Have you checked that your canvas and viewer haven’t accidentally been switched to “alpha” display mode? You can check this by clicking the right button at the top of the viewer and canvas and looking at the drop down menu to check that “RGB” is ticked and not “alpha”.
Forgive me if this seems patronising but thats the first place I’d look and it wasn’t mentioned in your initial post.
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Even if FCP is already on the computer?
Bugger.
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Ok, maybe I’m being stupid again but I can’t see this Stephen Smith post of which you speak…
I’m not really interested in Motion templates, I just need to do some rough graphics for a project.
Thanks,
Chris