Final Cut Pro 3 Editing Workshop, Second Edition
Become an FCP software editing pro with this hands-on reference.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Final Cut Pro 3 Editing Workshop, Second Edition
Lesson 9: Animating Images
Final Cut Pro has considerable capabilities for animating images, allowing you to enhance your productions and creating exciting, interesting and artistic scenes. We touched briefly on keyframing in the last lesson, but in this lesson we will concentrate on FCP s motion capabilities.
Loading the Lesson
One more time, begin by loading the material you need onto your media drive.
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If you don t already have it there, drag over to your media hard drive the Media1 folder from the CD.
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For this lesson, also drag the folder Media3 onto your media drive.
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Also bring into the Shared folder of your system drive the folder Lesson 9 from inside the Projects folder.
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Eject the CD and open the Lesson 9 folder on your hard drive.
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For this lesson you need to have Boris Calligraphy loaded on your computer. If you haven t already done so, install it from your FCP3 CD.
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When you have all the software installed on your computer, double-click your copy of the project file, L9, to launch the application.
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Reconnect the media, and reassign the scratch disk if needed.
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Finally, use Save Project As to save it with a new name, keeping the original as a backup.
Motion Window
Let s first take a look at how to create motion in Final Cut.
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Open Sequence 1.
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Drag a clip let s say Village1 from the Clips bin and drop it onto Overwrite or Insert in the Canvas...
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