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In today's world, there many different formats of video. It can be a challenge mixing computer generated graphics with NTSC video. That's because NTSC video uses rectangular pixels which doesn't match elements designed with square pixels.
Popular programs such as Photoshop and After Effects work with square pixels. In these programs, you can turn on a a feature that corrects for the difference, but you'll suffer a degradation in visual quality due to the interpolation. Therefore, a professional designer would prefer to build everything with square pixels.
This difference is roughly 10% (.9) vs (1.0), but it's enough for the seasoned video editor to immediately notice a difference.
Final Cut Pro has a great feature that allows you change individual clips from non-square to square pixels (or vice-versa). Therefore it's possible to compensate for the pixel aspect ratio when combining non-square and square video elements into the same sequence.
To correct for pixel aspect ratio problems within Final Cut Pro, you can follow these steps:
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Popular programs such as Photoshop and After Effects work with square pixels. In these programs, you can turn on a a feature that corrects for the difference, but you'll suffer a degradation in visual quality due to the interpolation. Therefore, a professional designer would prefer to build everything with square pixels.
This difference is roughly 10% (.9) vs (1.0), but it's enough for the seasoned video editor to immediately notice a difference.
Final Cut Pro has a great feature that allows you change individual clips from non-square to square pixels (or vice-versa). Therefore it's possible to compensate for the pixel aspect ratio when combining non-square and square video elements into the same sequence.To correct for pixel aspect ratio problems within Final Cut Pro, you can follow these steps:
Continue reading Mixing Square and Non Square Media in Final Cut Pro.
If you're receiving a "Dropped Frames During Playback" message in Final Cut Pro, it could be due to the fact that your hard disk is too slow or that your video footage is using a codec that is just too much for your computer processor to handle. For editing purposes, you can turn off the display of this message that appears when dropped frames occur. Simply go to the Final Cut Pro User Preferences menu, and in the General Tab, deselect the "Report Dropped Frames During Playback" checkbox. This should help improve Real-Time performance.
Dropped frames are frames that are inadvertently skipped during playback or output, either because the hard disk cannot keep up with the video data rate or because the computer processor cannot perform all of the applied effects in real-time. You can also improve real-time performance by playing your sequence using the Unlimited RT mode instead of the Safe RT mode.
Here's a great tutorial on how to slow down a person's dialogue without changing their pitch by using Final Cut Pro and Sound Track Pro's Time Stretch function.
You can continue reading for a full transcript of this tutorial.
You can continue reading for a full transcript of this tutorial.
Continue reading Slowing Down Audio with Time Stretch in SoundTrack Pro.
This week's featured plug-in for Final Cut Pro comes from CrumplePop. Flipper allows you to easily flip logos, text, photos, and video clips, all with a simple drag and drop operation. You can check out their cool demo at CrumplePop's website. Also available is ShrinkRay, a really cool tilt-shift effect, SplitScreen, Reflector, Notes, & HandDrawn, a pen & paper effect.CrumplePop effects are a fun, quick, and easy way to add high-quality elements to any Final Cut Pro project. CrumplePop effects are based on Master Templates, so you can just drag and drop a template onto your timeline, adjust some parameters, and the template does the rest. Busy editors usually don't have the time to design custom graphic elements for each project. Usually you want something that's fast, looks good, and doesn't require a trip outside of Final Cut. Still, CrumplePop effects give you alot of creative freedom; you can arrange elements however you like in any configuration. The end product is yours.
CrumplePop also offers a free plug-in called Photo, which is an effect that lets you create high-quality Polaroid-style photos on your timeline.
You can use Apple Motion to create amazing text effects. Here's an example of how to create a fogwriting effect. If you are a previous owner of Final Cut Studio 2.0, you can also check out this LiveType Tutorial for the fogwriter effect.
Continue reading for a full transcript of this Motion tutorial.
Continue reading for a full transcript of this Motion tutorial.
Continue reading Creating a Fog Writer effect with Apple Motion.
