[Tom Wolsky]

I think there are five different color pickers in the Apple color picker. You don’t have to use crayons. You can enter RGB or CMYK values. There is a web safe palette that let’s you search hex. It may not correspond to output because video is RGB. No way around that. You’re client’s design people may need to come up with RGB values.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

None of those effects translate into FCP unfortunately. Only a very limited basic edit transfers into FCP.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

Only in the video animation HUD. Are you going to export the file with transparency? If you’re just darkening the image, you might want to look at some of the effects which can produce interesting results. Most are animatable.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

Select the clip. Press Control-V for video animations. Double click opacity. Pull the line down to adjust opacity.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

The Flipped effect.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

Copy and paste.

All the best,

Tom

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Coming in 2012 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand

[Tom Wolsky]

Select the image. Press Control-D. Type in the duration you want.

All the best,

Tom

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Coming in 2012 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand

[Tom Wolsky]

Quite right. My misunderstanding is the double use of the term crop in FCP. Shift-C is the Crop function, which has three separate meanings. In the trim function, which used to work with nested sequences because the sequence would adjust, compound clips do not work for this purpose unfortunately.

All the best,

Tom

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Coming in 2012 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand

[Tom Wolsky]

Again, that’s not what I’m seeing. Here the vignette is clearly more pronounced on the left and right, with no vignetting appearing at the top and bottom.

All the best,

Tom

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Coming in 2012 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand

[Tom Wolsky]

Actually I said it backwards, trimming the clip will not work, cropping the clip will work.

Here’s a clip that’s been trimmed.

Here’s the clip converted to a compound clip.

Here’s the clip with a simple border applied, easiest to see.

Compounds unfortunately don’t work as elegantly as nested sequences in this instance. Maybe I’m completely misunderstanding the problem, in which case, my apologies.

All the best,

Tom

“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2012 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand