Simon Ubsdell
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[Shirley Royal] “Hi, I’m trying to download the link you provided for the rounded corner boxes – but keep getting the dreaded 404 error message – has it been removed from this site?”
I’m afraid it’s no longer available, but you might be interested in this free plug-in which gives you a lot of control over picture-in-picture animation (including of course rounded corners) without the need for keyframing:
https://tokyo-uk.com/fcpxeffects/pipfree.html
Of there are many other free effects that will give you rounded corners if you search for them.
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[Alan McCormick] “still a weird scenario though!”
I think it helps to look at a compound as an ad hoc organizational convenience rather than something that’s locked in stone once you’ve made it.
FCP X as a whole gets easier to use if one is flexible about the states of things – for example, a clip doesn’t always have to stay in the Primary just because that’s where you first decided to put it. It’s often much better to juggle clips in and out of the Primary as needed.
I’d say compounds should be looked at in the same way – temporary groupings of clips that serve a certain purpose (perhaps only for a time) but that don’t have to stay locked into that condition just because that’s how you first set them up. If compounding doesn’t suit your editing needs at any particular moment, then disable it – and then re-enable it when you need it again, if indeed you actually do need it again.
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You could perhaps try un-compounding the relevant clips while you make those adjustments, then re-compounding again as necessary. Unless of course that breaks something you done globally to the compound that you have to keep intact.
Otherwise a dog is for life but a compound clip can just be for Xmas.
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Don’t forget that you can also set a negative feather which will reduce the size of the mask inwards as opposed to increasing outwards with a positive feather. (Also the Falloff control will affect the position of the feather.)
Another useful trick worth trying is to apply a blur to the mask which has the benefit of allowing you to feather in one direction more than the other.
Gaussian blur works well but you can also try the directional blur which can give some useful results.
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You haven’t mentioned whether you’ve used Digital Rebellion’s FCSRemover to get rid of Motion:
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsremover/
It’s usually the first place to start to try and clean everything out before a new install. (And of course it’s free!)
Might help if you haven’t tried it.
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[Vickie Sceifers] “What can be done? Having to remove all clues to Motion 5 whatsoever is not appropriate. But I have done all that and still no working upgrade. I have removed all pref files, program files, project files, demo files, utility files…everything. ONLY thing I haven’t done is empty trash of Motion, which, if this still doesn’t work, I’m screwed. No program AT ALL!”
One thing that Apple actually recommend is that you compress the existing copy of Motion (i.e. make a zip archive) before you install a new version, just in case you need to go backwards for any reason.
This works because the App Store installer can then no longer “see” the application and will run the installer quite happily.
Of course, if you need to revert to the old version you can unzip the archive and you’re good to go.
Simon Ubsdell
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[Lawrence Diggs] “I don’t mind the banging, You’re ringing my bell. Thanks for the example. That’s what I was looking for.”
Glad to hear it 🙂
Now let’s see if Apple are going to pay me ny commission …
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And here just for the fun of it is a more obviously painted example (before and after):
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Looking at the moon example you have given, this is just very easy to do in Motion – you don’t need to buy a dedicated app/filter/plug-in to do it, although all the suggestions in this thread are good ones. (I guess you’re not really in the market for Studio Artist at $399 though even though it’s a really good solution.)
Here’s a very quick example of what you can do in Motion – here’s before and after.
And here’s a more painted look using blurs on some of the layers.
(OK, so it’s not the most exciting shot in the world but it’s just to give you and idea.)
I used Color Reduce to limit the palette to just four colours and a combination of Edges, Line Art, High Pass and Threshold applied to separate clones and blended in different ways.
I’m not saying that this is great art or that I’m especially happy with the result, but it only took a few minutes to knock up without thinking too hard about it. It’s really not hard to do and there are an infinite number of ways you can go about combining these different techniques.
Any filter or plug-in you buy is only going to be using the same kind of things under the hood at the end of the day, some more cleverly than others.
Sorry to keep banging on about this but if it’s convenience you’re after, then go ahead and spend your precious pennies on a dedicated app or plug-in, but if you want a world of infinite possibilities then go for Motion which is probably going to cost you a whole lot less in the first place.
Simon Ubsdell
http://www.tokyo-uk.com
