Simon Ubsdell
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Hi John
There is a default background which is set to blue but you can easily turn this off in the Inspector using the Background On/Off checkbox.
Incidentally if you don’t want the border either just turn the widt parameter down to zero.
Probably should have made it without a background but there you go … it was a very long time ago!
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You can’t (easily) change the colours of this effect as they are rigged to the Amount slider in a relatively complex way and hence won’t respond to any changes you make other than with the slider.
You’d almost be better off building your own effect rather than trying to tamper with this one.
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A lot of questions there but if you want the “states” to change instantaneously from one to the other you need to go to the keyframe editor for the widget and change the interpolation to Constant. Linear interpolation will give you a linear change from one value to another.
Also note that the widget slider is a parameter control just like any other and the same rules apply – it sounds as though you are expecting a different kind of behavior.
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[Chris Kenny] “Smoke seems like a tool that’s insanely useful to a particular slice of the market and nearly useless to the rest.”
I think that sums it up perfectly. I don’t think the new price point reallt changes that except that a few more people will dive in and buy it … and then wonder why they did.
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You might want to try T. Payton’s very clever and very simple workaround for creating custom project sizes:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/344/6909
It’s always better (for any nuber of reasons) to try and work at HD if that’s what your source material is and then scale at the end of the process.
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FCPX doesn’t play nicely with MP4’s anymore than FCP7 did – convert the audio to WAV or AIFF before trying to edit with it.
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I forgot to mention the Glass Distortion filter which does give you a bit more control – it’s not great though.
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I think you’re always going to get issues when you’re trying to move an emitter very fast.
The best way around this would be to slow your source footage right down in a new composition, track the slowed down footage, apply the emitter, render out the result, bring it back into your original comp and change the speed back up so it matches your original footage.
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Both of these work in a similar way – but be warned, they are quite limited.
Apply the filter to the layer you want to affect. Drag another image layer into the source well of the filter and the effect should now work. (You’ll want to turn off the visibility of the source layer.)
The areas of the source image with the highest luminance will distort the destination image the most, the closer they values are to black the less influence they will have.
Some things to note though.
The position and scaling of the source image cannot be adjusted and will be assumed to be full frame (or if smaller than the canvas size will default to the bottom left corner (I don’t know why).
If you’re using a shape rather than a bitmapped image then the edges of the shape will be the only thing affecting the bump/displace so it’s not really a very useful thing to do.
The displace filter looks more like a “glass” effect and you will get much more distortion from the bump map. Note also that the bump map filter pushes the image away along a chosen axis depending on the strength of the amount slider.
I would say neither effect give you the sort of result you might be used to from other applications.
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When you use a Motion template inside FCPX you will always get the highest possible resolution regardless of how your Motion project is set up.
Simon Ubsdell
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