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Editing Effect Templates in Final Cut Pro X

Thursday Apr 26, 2012 | Permalink | Leave a Comment(0) | TrackBacks (0)

If you are a Final Cut Pro X user, you may find that certain built-in effects and generators are fairly limited in terms of parameters that you can adjust.

For example, the built-in gradient generator doesn't allow you to change colors.

Well, the fix is simple. This tutorial requires that you have Motion 5 installed. If you have Motion 5, you can make changes to any built-in effect within Final Cut Pro X. You can then create new effects with all the parameters and adjustments that you need.

Check out this short tutorial on how to publish new parameters within Final Cut Pro X by using Motion 5.

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Color Mask in Final Cut Pro X

Monday Apr 9, 2012 | Permalink | Leave a Comment(0) | TrackBacks (0)

Learn how to use a color mask in Final Cut Pro X to change the color of a specific area within a video clip.

Click on the title of this article for the full FCP X tutorial.

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Import FCP 7 projects into FCP X

Wednesday Feb 1, 2012 | Permalink | Leave a Comment(0) | TrackBacks (0)

With the latest update to Final Cut Pro X (10.0.3), you can now import your Final Cut Pro 7 projects into FCP X.

There's a company called Intelligent Assistance that makes an application for converting your old Final Cut Pro 7 projects to Final Cut Pro X projects. Don't worry, for those of you who want to go the other way.... meaning FCP X to FCP 7, they have an app for that as well.

You can purchase the application through the Mac App store. It's only $10.00!

So, I did a basic test converting a project with some cross dissolves and an audio track from Final Cut Pro 7 into Final Cut Pro X, and it worked flawlessly!

Now, the only odd-ball thing, is that each sequence is converted into something called a Compound Clip into Final Cut Pro X. It's really not that big of a deal, but you'll need to break apart your compound clip in order to see all the video and audio clips.

Don't worry, the documentation provides very simple methods that walk you through on how to accomplish that.

I'm very impressed with the number of elements that can be converted. Some quick notes that caught my interested include the ability to convert the following:

Nested Sequences are Converted to Compound Clips
MultiClips are Converted to FCP X Multiclips
Split edits are maintained
Audio Levels (including keyframes and pans) are maintained
Motion Tab Settings are converted directly over including (scale, opacity, distort, position and composition settings)
Constant Speed changes
Markers
31 compatible transitions
72 FxPlug and FXScript plugins are converted over
32 various audio filters

*This is NOT a complete list, but it contains a few things that caught my eye as being a good thing!

There are a couple of items that will not carry over which include:

Titles Created with Title 3D title tool
Variable Speed Changes
Filter Settings
Drop Shadows and Blurs using the Motion Tab
Travel Mattes using the Alpha or Luma Composite Modes

Again, this is not a complete list, so please ready the documentation.

Exporting from Final Cut Pro

Thursday Dec 29, 2011 | Permalink | Leave a Comment(2) | TrackBacks (0)

Exporting from Final Cut Pro can sometimes be frustrating. This is especially true if you run into video interlace problems.

I had originally intended to write this article for Final Cut Pro X users. However, this article will also benefit users who are using Final Cut Pro 7 along with Compressor 3.0. So please, forgive me a ahead of time if you are not a Final Cut Pro X user.

I was inspired to write this article, because GeniusDV has received support calls from frustrated customers who are having issues exporting high quality video that looks clean on a progressive display.

Don't worry, the steps in this tutorial are identical for Compressor 3.0 and 4.0.

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