Don Smith
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A couple of ‘down-‘n-dirty’ tricks…
When you say a corner I assume that you mean if you crop from the top you’ll cut off the top of the talent’s head.
Just duplicate the clip and place above the original. Crop one down and the other one from the side to get that corner. Put both videos into a Compound Clip.
And yes, if the camera rocks vertically the talent will float vertically against a still background.
You can attack this in one of two ways; either hand-track the bg or take the compound clip of the orignal green screen video and its copy and hand-track the top of his or her head to be at the same spot in every frame. That way you don’t see any vertical movement. You will have to scale up the compound clip so when the talent is highest in the frame you won’t see a cutoff at the bottom. Some will tell you to stabilize the clip and you can try that but it’s been my experience that the results will not satisfy.
Hand-tracking like this is not as labor intensive as it sounds. Set a Position keyframe once and then manually advance using the right arrow key and adjust the vertical position. After you set the first keyframe all other adjustments will automatically generate a keyframe. And, you probably have long periods where the camera doesn’t move and you won’t have to set a keyframe so often.
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It sounds like the china is sticking in over a green-screen although you don’t say that specifically.
If I’m right then the simplest way to take care of that is to crop it out. If, for example, the china sticks in on the left, go to the Inspector for the clip and go to the Crop section and crop the left side.
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There goes that theory.
Does the screen in question light up but just doesn’t show X output?
If so, try trashing prefs which is very easy in the X update. Just hold down Option-Command while starting up X and answer the dialog box about whether you want to trash the prefs.
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Did you also upgrade to Mac OS X 10.9.3 at the same time? If so, that’s why your (educated guess here) third display disappeared. Bet you have two monitors to edit by and a third display to view the output of X.
The third display disappeared for some, but not all, Final Cut Pro X users after upgrading the OS to 10.9.3. I signed up for the beta of Mac OS X 10.9.4 and that restored my third display. Anyone can sign up to beta test it.
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I do not recommend starting a project with a graphic because it doesn’t set the audio rate even though it appears to. The trick prior to 10.1 for a custom frame size was to edit within the Event library but if you set the frame size with a graphic then you get what looks and sounds right in the edit but it won’t export with sound. It’ll be silent.
Before 10.1 the best way for a custom frame size was to create an empty Motion project of the size you want and export that 10-second movie and use that custom movie as your starting point by importing it into the Event and then right-clicking on the movie to edit it on its own timeline. You’ll be editing your piece in the Event library and not on the main timeline but it’s sound will be there on export whereas if you had started with a still graphic the sound would not export. Start with that custom movie but then you can delete it once you have another piece of media in the timeline.
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Go to the menu View > Show Used Media Ranges. A yellow bar will appear on library clips where the media of that clip has been used.
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If that object does not move then that single PNG picture can be stretched over the whole project. If it moves, well, that’s an entirely different story!
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With 10.1 you no longer copy within Final Cut. You should do it in the Finder.
What you don’t understand is that a Library ORGANIZES everything but may not CONTAIN everything.
If you imported files with ‘Leave in Place’ then those files won’t actually be inside the Library.
The best workflow is to Finder copy the Library to a new drive. Mount the COPY and CONSOLIDATE IN. That will replace any reference media inside the Library with the real media so that it’ll be there when that copy of the Library walks out the door.
You can easily see for yourself if you have to consolidate the Library. Right-click on the Library file in the finder and select ‘Open Package Contents’. Once ‘inside’ the Library look in the original media folder. If you see icons with hooked arrows on them, those are reference files and not the actual media. Once you see no hooked-arrow icons in the original media folder, then that Library is good to travel.
Once caveat is custom effects. If you may not have the same custom effects on the remote computer then those effects you used on the original computer won’t show up. You might want to take along a copy of your Motion Templates folder which is located inside the Movies folder on your boot drive.
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Then, yes, Photoshop. Take the first still into PS and select the object. Inverse the selection and delete. You may have to first ‘unlock’ the file if its JPEG. You want to save it as a PNG with the same size as the full picture so don’t crop. Just delete everything except the object. By maintaining the size, it’ll place the object in the correct position with you lay that one picture over the top all across the edit. I’m assuming, of course, that the object does not move.
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Maybe I’m not understanding but it seems to me to take the still where it has the element you want to stay still and duplicate it to be above the time-lapse. Stretch the still to fill. Crop the still to the element you want to keep the same.
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