Rob Schultz
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The items in your bins are all instanced, not source media, so you can have your footage with multiple mono tracks, but you’re probably going to have to make them all yourself.
To do that, you’d throw the shot in a timeline, unpair the stereo audio, re-link the audio to the video (if necessary), and then move that media into a new bin.
Also, fwiw, I like to add ‘toggle linked selection’ to my keyboard, usually on the unused ‘/’ key. Very helpful.
Rob Schultz
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Trouted by 9 seconds. High five, Michael!
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You could probably double up your RAM quite easily and successfully.
If your hdd is 5400-speed, you’ll feel the difference with an upgrade to 7200rpm, and/or you’ll likely see better performance from using a fast external disk or raid for your media.
Of course, depending on what codecs you’re using and how many streams you’re trying to pull at once, you might just want to uncheck that ‘warn me next time’ button…
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You only get the tracks that have tabs attached on the far left of your timeline, so click the v1 (or v-whatever) tab to disconnect it and you’ll just add the audio.
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Check out the crop controls in the motion tab of the viewer. Layer your clips, turn up the ‘bottom’ crop on the top clip, and the same but less so on the middle clip. They’ll cover the top parts of the clips below. And you can paste the crop to every clip in the same layer so you don’t have to mess with it a thousand times.
Assuming these features exist in FC Express, that is. This is how it would work in FCP.
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Well, in that case, Sean, what you want is a stack of layers.
Foreground actors
innermost color layer
middle color layer
outermost color layer
backgroundThese can all be built from one piece of footage, you just need some way of creating the matte for the foreground element. If they were on a greenscreen, say, you could create the matte from a key. If it’s a piece of footage like a finished cartoon, you’re probably looking at some rotoscoping. In the former case, you could probably pull it off without too much difficulty in FCP. In the latter, I’d definitely move over to a program more suited to the task, like After Effects.
Duplicate your original footage and create your matte on the top layer. Now you’ve cut out your foreground from your background. Make as many duplicates of that top layer as you want for each color level, and you can fill the inside of the matte with any number of techniques, from a simple fill to a colorization to using the layer with the cutout as an alpha channel for a layer of solid color. For each layer of solid color, you can scale up the layer a bit and not notice any ill effects since the footage has been colored over anyway. In AEX you could also just copy the mask from one layer to another and expand it a bit each time.
Waiting around for my renders to complete,
Rob Schultz
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After you overcut your new clips, select and copy (cmd-c) the original, then select the new clip and choose ‘paste attributes’ (opt-v). You can see in the paste attributes dialogue exactly what you’ll be applying. Also, you can apply one set of attributes to many clips at once with this method.
Rob Schultz
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Pretty cool, Nick!
On the current project, I’m onlining the final reel and hopefully the sound mixer is almost done, but I’m bookmarking this for next time. Thanks!
Rob Schultz
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Thanks Michael (and everyone!). I kind of came around on this, since I’ll be passing clips with some handles to the color guys anyway, and will have the software to assemble the cut according to plan.
In this particular case I was (perhaps needlessly) curious about why things weren’t appearing just as I’d attempted to make them, since I don’t want to damage the timing for the VFX stuff (or the copious amounts of retimed shots).
Sounding out this project by myself, it’s sometimes tricky to tell when something’s a legitimate issue, since we have had a few of those as well. Now then, onward into the night until these vfx plates and elements are DONE!
Rob Schultz
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Do you have an output device to check this on, or have you tried exporting your timeline to see if the issue is making it into your final video?
Sounds like this might fall under https://forums.creativecow.net/faq/applefinalcutpro#59
Rob Schultz
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