[Nick Meyers]

what Shane says.
Boris and Livetype are ng for subtitles.

the best text tool for subtitles is Andreas Kiel’s “Text Up Pro”

<https://www.spherico.de/filmtools/textUp/index.html>

this has many settings for adding outlines, bg boxes, and a dropshadow.
it can also be justified in any direction:
bottom, top, center (handy for text blocks)
PLUS it auto-wraps.
(not always perfectly, but it gets you there faster)

also handy for subtitling work is Andreas’s “TItle Exchange Pro”
<https://www.spherico.de/filmtools/>
check it out.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

this should be possible using the slip tool.

select the entire timeline,,
summon the slip tool (s), or simply grab it from the tool bar,
and type in + or -7.
(that’s 7, then a period, which FCP will read as 7.00)

it SHOULD work, but may not if the far end of the clips don’t have 7 seconds lea-way.
if you can find any problem clips, and trim them down, then you should be able to slip everything, then trim those clips back out.

be warned, though,
that any KEYFRAMING you have on the clips (volume graphing, motion fx, or keyframed filters) will also slip.
if you have any clips that you think would be affected like this,
then you can DUPLICATE your entire timeline up onto a higher set of tracks.
(Select all, hold OPTION + SHIFT and drag upwards)
this way you can slip only one set of tracks,
then copy paste the relevant attributes back

a better way to have approached this would have been to alter the TC of your original media to match the TC of the texted tape.
for safety you would transfer the original TC into the AUX tc field.

than copy the sequence into a new project, and capture, WITHOUT deleting the original media.

it’s a good idea to keep that as a reference guide

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here’s an alternate approach:

make your sequence offline
(select all, shift D, use the “keep on disk option” of course.)

import the captured files into the project, open them in the viewer and change their TC to match the OLD TC.

now reconnect the sequence.
it should match the original sequence.
hopefully you have an exported version of the first sequence you can use as a guide.

once it’s all connected and checked, and verified as ok,
you can safely change the clips’ TC back to match their genuine TC.

good luck with it all,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

i’ve never had that happen to me.

what happens if you drag the 42min file into FCP again?

nick

[Nick Meyers]

two different approaches to this:

1. NEST the clip,
and apply the ZOOM to the clip, and the MASK to the nest.

2. rather than use a FILTER for the WS mask, use an overlay.

Andy Mees makes a WS mask GENERATOR for FC.
check it out along with his many other useful and free plugins here:
<https://web.me.com/andymees/Free_and_Easy/main/main.html>

ok, one more approach, just for the heck of it:

rather than the motion tab, use the Basic 3D filter to adjust the scale.
make sure the WS mask come AFTER that in the filters tab.

personally i use overlays for WS masks, as i find doing the re-pos to be so much easier and intuitive using the Wireframe in the Canvas.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

thanks for responding.

i’m on an 3GHz Octocore with 4G of ram.

since i haven’t been able to figure out how to do what i want,
speed isn’t my problem… yet!

would you have any tips on stabilizing shots by “pinning” certain points?

thanks,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

hi, mariana,

i haven’t seen your previous posts, so am coming to this with a “blank” perspective.

the output really depends on what format you need to deliver in.
either contractually, or according to your screening needs

these days, that rarely has any baring on what format it was shot in!

for what it’s worth, a popular, and good, codec for editing in, is Prores.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

i use Font Book for this.
this is an app that comes with OSX.

under the Preview Menu in Fontbook, chose Custom (Apple 3)
and you can type in the text you want to preview.

the up and down arrows will take you thu all the available fonts.

i’ve got Fontbook in my dock, but it wish i could do this in FCP

nick

[Nick Meyers]

hi jason.

“I’d like to know if there’s a way to do this without using the mouse.”

as shane said, you cant force a clip to move down over the top of another clip with a keyboard command 🙁
i wish you could.

HOWEVER,
in the situation you described, you could have simply moved it across.
(with out first moving it up to another track)

this is SLIDING.
select the clip,
pick up the side tool (Sits alongside the slip tool into the tool palette) or hit ss to summon it.
type in a value (+/-12 i your case) and the clip will slide over the top of the surrounding clips.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

my understanding is that if you are using COMPRESSOR, there is no speed up with any conversion.

however it has to work very hard to fit the 24fps into 25fps.
if you use the fastest settings it simply drops or repeats frames, and looks bad,
if you chose the best settings it takes forever

if you have to do this, then one way is to use CINEMA TOLS to CONFORM the clip from 24 to 25fps.

this simply makes it play at a different speed, altering the pitch of the audio.
it’s instantaneous,
and then you don’t need compressor to try fitting a square peg into a round hole.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

andreas is right.
the only way to automate this is via XML.

but here’s a simple tip for doing it manually (if you have a lot to do, XML is teh way)

double click the first timeline clip to open it i the viewer.
go to the filters tab.
here you can find the filter you want to delete, select it and delete.

now the real part of the tip:
while remaining in the viewer, hit the down arrow.
you will jump to the NEXT clip in the timeline,
and it will be open in the viewer, with the filter pane active.

this works for other panes in the viewer, too: Motion, and the Color Corrector, and the Controls pane of generators.

cool!

nick