[Fernando Sam]

Thank you very much, Tom.

[Fernando Sam]

That was quick… Thanks, Tom!

The overall project will take 13 minutes. It is an homage to dubbing actors in Spain and I will go through the 33 most well known of them since the history of dubbing movies started in de years 30 of the last century.

The project is been planned quite mathematically: Each actor/actress will take 20 seconds + an intro to the subject of 105 seconds and an end of 15 seconds.
I will show, together with the photograph of the dubbing actor, three of the moviestars he/she gave his voice to in Spanish. The faces of those stars come from illustrations/paintings (not photo’s) in movie-posters.
The original voices of the stars will mix into the one of the dubbing actor which become predominant taking then protagonisme.
The names of those belonging to the pictures will also, at one time, appear and disappear in motion.

All the mentioned will happen with adjustment op transparency, in and out zooming + some motion.
A musical soundtrack will be at the bottom, bringing psychologically all the 33 pieces together.
Between piece and piece will be a couple of seconds fading into black (or, perhaps, some other effect I’ll think of when editing).

In total, I’ll be using 16 image-tracks and six audio-tracks.

Obviously, all the 33 pieces will have technically the same editing and properties, but I would hate to be repetitive, robotic and… boring, so I intend to bring small nuances in each of the 33 subjects to make it more lively and human. But, previous to apply those nuances, the basics of each subject will be exactly the same.
And this is why I would like to know if there is a way to copy and paste attributes/properties from one slide to the other; it would make the job much shorter.

Well, that’s it. I’m glad my message for help caught your attention, Tom, because I really would like the project to be instructive, entertaining and… well done.

Thanks again.

[Fernando Sam]

Thank you, Tom, for taking the time to answer me and for your valuable input.

I still remain with a question (or two…) concerning my second point, and this is:
• Would it be better to work with different sequences (four in my case) and merging those at the end in one master sequence (–mind you, we’re talking about more than 300 slides, nearly all with effects, transitions and motion’s settings. It takes 16 image-tracks and six sound-tracks) or
• Doing the lot in just one sequence.

And…
Since there are going to be several repetitive tasks concerning the use of motion/effects, can I just copy attributes/properties and paste them from slide to slide?

If the better choice is to split: How do I merge the four sequences into one?

Hope to get an answer this time again. Thank you very much.

[Fernando Sam]

Thanks again, Michael, for your input. Also to you, Andrew and Gary. It really has helped me.

As told you before, I decided to start the project again from zero, but not before writing down all the details about how the editing was happening, so I did not have to try out things again. But now, with the explanation of Gary, things have gone really smooth

Instead of converting the jpg’s to tiff’s, what I have done now (in a parallel project) is importing the jpg’s in a multilayered PhotoShop doc; then importing that doc into Final Cut Pro, having then all the formal jpg’s as transparent clips, which will give me extra opportunities for the final touch of the project.

It was a pleasure having your answers. Hope I would one day been able to help you in return.

Fernando

[Fernando Sam]

Thank you, Michael, for your answer.

I suppose I have to start again from zero and going through all the settings that, I don’t think I’m going to be able to understand.
What would you suggest to be the right settings for a movie with just jpg-stills, size 2560×1440 px? The movie won’t go further than YouTube and family & friends TV’s, but I intend to make it looks like a little professional, with a variety of effects and creative transitions.