[Ted_kazear]

mostly going back and adding scenes to music videos, i have fast paced edits and when inserting new scenes i found it troublesome to use transitions into the new material, not enough room for effects to grab onto, also when you cut a clip you can go back by using undo, so I was wondering it cant be that far fetched to edit a clip back together, and hey chief there’s lots of reasons it would be beneficial to be able to do this,

I come from a background of mostly audio editing, and lets say for instance Logic pro audio , you can merge midi and audio clips, and we can use that the same way in video , here’s what you would benefit from it,

one filter on a video instead of two, treat it like a normal clip and not like a nested sequence, although they act differently you can drag a nested sequences into the viewer and add filters and what not, it’s a clean way to work

shift click two or more clips and use a key command to glue would be faster and sharper insted of using a nested sequence for lets say two 4 second clips but whatever floats your boat.

I just want the interface to mimic my audio practices , lol later dooder

I don’t know, so heres your big AND AGAIN, I want to do it.

[Ted_kazear]

sweet

[Ted_kazear]

Well the guy sleeping is transparent also because the top layer of video is opaque (empty couch over the sleeping guy). If I use a crop the line is noticeably different do to changing light. So what I have done is introduced a third layer of a matted video only the size of the guy sleeping that fades in.

See the sleeping guy becomes opaque then fades back, I just want to maintain the sleeping guy so that he never dissolves. The way I have it now will work, but why would a sleeping guy dissolve if the ghost walker was to rise out of his body…..until then I guess I will have to maintain correct lighting.

If I was only the editor and had to work with this footage only, which i do it seems an editor could work with this scenario. i am still rough to fcp controls so this is coming along slowly.

[Ted_kazear]

This is almost what i would like to do also, I posted earlier today about how to exchange audio and keep it in sync with the video. Looking forward to seeing comments on this.

[Ted_kazear]

I used quicktime conversion and it looks allot better that just saving it as a quicktime movie under self contained current settings. It was all blurry.

I Used QT conversion and set compression to non, millions of colors, and left everything else unchecked.

[Ted_kazear]

Thanks for all the insight. One of the steps I am a little confused about is when you edit a video in FCP then you want to author it to dvd what are the steps.

Do you first make a quicktime movie , then put it in sorenson , then dvdpro, or do you not make a quicktime movie using fcp at all.

I tried all the above methods, and my movies has choppy (pixel) edges especially on images that are in motion.

[Ted_kazear]

I pretty much got creative and accomplished the effect, if anyone has thoughts please add.

[Ted_kazear]

I tried to use the math to adjust the crop lines to move in uniform but they do not meet perfectly, so I need help, Thank-you

[Ted_kazear]

The files contained in the card on the camera are .jpg.

[Ted_kazear]

Maybe it’s already possible, let me know if it is, Will I be able to log and capture through a time code break. Shouldn’t that be a setting to adjust?