Can you do this with Final Cut?

I'm putting together a video and want it to look like you are watching a tv show. I have a .jpg I was to use to outline the video. Can you do it with Final Cut? In other words, the video will have a tv screen look. And then I want it to zoom in slowly to eventually lose the tv outline.

When you are using still images I usually do things like this using the 4 or 8 point garbage matte.
Drop the video jpeg on track 1.
Drop the television jpeg on track 2.
Drop the garbage matte on the television jpeg and use it to cut a hole that will be filled with the image on track 1. You may also have to use the motion controls to size and position the image on track 1 for location and perspective.
Play with the choke and feather matte controls till you get it looking clean.
rh

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I'm new to Mac and FCE,
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Is this type of batch capture possible with final cut or does the user actually have to wait while the video is captured or better yet go to the end of each out point only to have the tape rewind for each clip captured. Seems like a very inefficient way of doing, so i'm guessing I am just unaware of how to do it. Please give me the steps if possible and of course all help is much appreciated.
Thanks,

This is very irritating. The more I get into the Mac side of video the more I think I have been sold a bill of goods. Mac seems to be good for lots of stuff, but I have to say that iMovie and Final Cut Express seem to lack some pretty basic functionality found in Windows software like Ulead MSP.
I even asked this specific question to the Apple store personnel and they guaranteed me that batch capture is possible on FCE.
I have to ask myself at this point why am I considering paying 900.00 for FCP when a 300 dollar Windows Program does the same thing. I guess live and learn, but it sure helps when people tell the truth and don't make stuff up when they don't understand it.
I am very disappointed at all the Mac video hype I have yet to see the wonders.
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Nikon D90 footage: Can you edit natively in Final Cut?

Just wondering if anyone has been using the new Nikon D90 to shoot video, and then importing the footage natively into FCP6. The camera's video-recording format, from what I have read, is 720p24, an .avi file, and a Motion JPEG codec.
I see that in the settings for a Final Cut sequence, you can choose 1280X720 frame size, a true 24 frames per second rate, and either a Motion JPEG A or Motion JPEG B compressor. It seems like with these settings, you could put your footage into the timeline and not have to render it before editing . . . unless the .avi file format goofs it up. Can you edit .avi in Final Cut natively, or do you have to use a Quicktime file?
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No, sorry to say, I do not own the camera. And in looking around the web for an original, as-shot-by-the-D90 clip to experiment with, the only ones I found were at this site:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0809/08090101nikond90samplegallery.asp
They were billed as: D90 sample movie 1 • original .AVI format • 21 seconds, 35.7 MB
and: D90 sample movie 3 • original .AVI format • 9 seconds, 24.5 MB
So I downloaded them, imported them into Final Cut, and they showed up with settings in the browser of: 1280X720 and 24 fps (so far so good) but then a compressor setting of "Apple OpenDML JPEG" rather than what I was expecting, Motion JPEG, which is what the D90 spec is. If the clip was truly "original .AVI format," I would have expected the compressor setting to be Motion JPEG.
Then, when I tried to change the sequence settings to Apple OpenDML JPEG, I found that there is no such setting. My thought was if the size, 1280X720, the frame rate, 24, and the compressor settings all matched, you could edit natively. And when I dragged the clip into the timeline, it did not give me a dialogue box asking if I would like the sequence settings to match the clip, the way it does with some footage.
Yes, you can render the clip and then edit it, but it would be great to avoid that step. Anyway, I got the red bar in the timeline with every combination of sequence compressor settings I tried, maybe 10 of them.
So maybe the answer is some time is needed for Final Cut to support the D90's Motion JPEG files natively, though I believe that is an older codec. Too bad the D90 does not record in something like DVCPRO HD. For a $1000 camera, the image quality looks pretty good, and the shallow depth of field really turned my head. I was thinking it might be a cheap Red Rock or Letus killer.
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I am using Toast 11 to burn dvd's. With FCP10.1.3 I could go into the FCP shared folder grab the encoded .m2v file and drag it into Toast 11 and author dvd and burn. How can you do this with FCP 10.1.4?

I am using Toast 11 to burn dvd's. With FCP10.1.3 I used to go into the FCP shared folder grab the encoded .m2v file and drag it into Toast 11 and author dvd and burn. How can you do this with FCP 10.1.4?

BenB it creates a disc image only and it's not in .m2v. I think it saved it as an Apple Pro Res 422 format instead. The disc image file format will not allow
Toast 11 to create menus etc. Thanks for your help.

Can you use the Logickeyboard Final Cut Pro X Shortcut Keyboard with Final Cut Express 4?

I'm just wondering if the Logickeyboard Final Cut Pro X Shortcut Keyboard can be used with Final Cut Express 4???

If you mean are the shortcuts the same:
No they are not.
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Can you transport files from Final Cut Express HD to Final Cut Pro HD?

I have a problem.
While working with Final Cut Express HD my clips were erased leaving me with blank spaces in my sequence. I can't seem to figure out how I can save my movie. I have reloaded the files into Express and even Took everything(file & sequence) to Pro. I am having no luck. Does anyone know how to fix this.
please email me @
[email protected]

"my clips were erased leaving me with blank spaces in my sequence"
Re-capture the files and then use the re-connect feature.
Al

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Created a short video using Final Cut Express 4, will my teacher be able to open this project up with Final Cut Pro???

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Can you do THIS with Captivate ? ...

Hi,
I'm new to Adobe Captivate and am using the 30 day trial to see if it does what I need it to do.
I need to create a test as follows:
60 questions, split into sections.
I need a small button for each question, numbered 1 - 60 aligned vertically in one line down the left of the page, so there would need to be some scrolling as 60 buttons would go off the screen.
Pushing each button would select a multiple choice question from a random pool. eg. Push button No. 5 and a random question would be there. Push 6 and there's be a different question, but if you pushed 5 again, the same question would be there as before. This enables the person being tested to skip back and fore between questions by clicking the buttons.
There may be numerous sections to each test.
eg.
Car Engines
Car Bodywork
Steering
Suspension etc. etc.
So, questions 1 - 8 say may be picked randomly from the 'Car Engines' question pool.
Questions 9 - 19 say may be picked randomly from the 'Car Bodywork' question pool. etc. etc.
At the end of the test, I need the results to be displayed such as:
Car Engines - 76%
Car Bodywork - 52% etc.
I'd also like a simple bar chart representation if possible.
Hope this is clear.
I'd be very grateful if somebody could advise if this type of test scenarion can be created with Captivate.
I'm prepared to learn to use Captivate if it can be done, but do not want to waste my time if Captivate doesn't have the capability to create this type of test.
Grateful for any advice.

Captivate won't give you exactly what you've described straight out of the box. But then, neither will any other authoring tool that I'm aware of.
Scrolling Navigation Buttons
The Captivate screen does not scroll. You need to think of it as being like a movie you watch on TV, not as an HTML web page. There are widgets available to give some scrolling of text in captions, but not something that would provide navigation on each and every quiz slide with buttons to jump to any question in the quiz.
Question Pools
Captivate can have any number of question pools associated with a single project file, but you have to set up how many questions will come from a given pool before you publish the project. When the project loads into the user's browser, the randomisation is done to select the particular questions from each pool that will appear in the movie at runtime and is then fixed for the duration of that runtime. You can't control it and perform more randomisation via clicking of buttons. Basically, your navigation buttons are just intended to take you to particular question slides. Which quiz question appears on that slide at runtime is totally dependent on the randomisation done from the question pool.
So if you have 5 question pools, each with 20 questions, but only want ten question from each pool to appear in your published project, you can easily do this with Captivate.
NOTE: One other thing you need to be aware of is that once your user answers a question and moves off that slide, their answer will be locked and cannot be changed until the Retake the Quiz or relaunch the lesson. So although Captivate can be configured to allow backward movement, it does not necessarily allow your user to go back and change their answers to questions previously answered.
Quiz Results
Captivate considers all questions or scored objects in a project file to be part of its Quiz Scope. This scope begins on the slide containing the first scored element, and goes until the last scored element. A project file can have only one Quiz Results slide which will show scoring data from all objects in the Quiz Scope.
If you want to have scoring displayed separately for certain sections of your quiz (Car engines, Car bodywork, etc) you will need to use one of Captivate's more advanced techniquest using Advanced Actions and Variables. It can be done out of the box, but it takes time to achieve the required scripting.
Captivate does not have bar charts as standard screen objects. Once again, you could use some fancy Advanced Actions and Variable scripting to rig up something that looked similar. But it would take yet more time.
I hope this helps with your decision.

Can you do this with AE?

I have an old highschool video where I look terrible, I was wondering since I know you can use photoshop to edit the photos (eg: remove bags from undereyes, change eye color ect..) can you do this type of stuff with after effects, and if so how? I'm thinking about purchasing it as long as it can do that type of thing.If it cant, is there any software out there that will?
Thank you so much,
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Yes, you can change eye color and remove blemishes from skin with After Effects.
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I recommend starting by going to the
After Effects Community Help and Support page. Work your way through the material in the "Getting started" section. Then, after you've gone through those basic materials, come back here with detailed questions.

Can you do this with ODP?

I've got a question...
I want to call a function with a mixture of bind parms and non-bind parms and return a refcursor. For instance,
How would I call the following function with ODP: (BTW, I haven't compiled this so dont worry about the syntax. What I'm trying to accomplish is one round trip from the app server to the database that will return a query that is limited to the keys passed in as bind parms. Notice the join to the results table to restrict my production query to just those bind array values that are passed in after I insert them into my results table (index-organized table)). I get an error "SPECIFIED CAST IS NOT VALID" when I try to call this function with a mixture of bind parms (arrays) and non-bind parms. Can you do this? I do not see anything in the pdf file on the ODP documentation that says you cannot. but I'm thinking because you set the command.ArrayBindCount property to the number of things in your array, that this applies to ALL of the parms? Is that true? Any workarounds?
Thanx
Frank
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE mypkg IS
TYPE RefCursor IS REF CURSOR;
FUNCTION myExport(keyid_in IN VARCHAR2
,where_clause_in IN VARCHAR2
,sessionid_in IN VARCHAR2
,key_nbr_in IN NUMBER
,key_flag_in IN CHAR
,key2_in IN NUMBER
,key2_flag_in IN CHAR) RETURN RefCursor;
END mypkg;
SHOW ERRORS;
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY mypkg IS
FUNCTION myExport(keyid_in IN VARCHAR2
,where_clause_in IN VARCHAR2
,sessionid_in IN VARCHAR2
,key_nbr_in IN NUMBER
,key_flag_in IN CHAR
,key2_nbr_in IN NUMBER
,key2_flag_in IN CHAR) RETURN RefCursor IS
     myCur RefCursor;
BEGIN
-- This is not a bind parm, but one string value, not an array!
     DELETE FROM session_results WHERE sessionid = keyid_in;
-- These are bind parms that will insert N records into my results table
INSERT INTO results VALUES(sessionid_in
,key_nbr_in
,key_flag_in
,key2_nbr_in
,key2_flag_in);
     COMMIT;
     OPEN myCur FOR
SELECT table1.key_nbr
,table1.key_flag
,table2.key2_nbr
,table2.key2_flag
FROM table1
,results
,table2
WHERE results.sessionid = keyid_in
AND table1.key_nbr = sresl.key_nbr
AND table1.key_flag = sresl.key_flag
AND table1.key_nbr = table2.key_nbr
AND table1.key_flag = table2.key_flag
and table2.key_nbr = results.key2_nbr
and table2.key_flag = results.key2_flag;
     RETURN(myCur);
END myExport;
END mypkg;
SHOW ERRORS;

Please correct me if my understanding is not correct but I believe your questions is whether one parameter can be an array bind while another is a non-array bind in a single stored procedure execution. If that is your question, the answer is no. All parameters must be either bound as an array or not bound as an array. There cannot be a mix.

Can Motion be used with Final Cut Express?

I am needing to add a little more advanced graphics and I am wondering if I bought Motion, would it be able to work with final cut express HD or would I have to upgrade to the final cut studio pro suite?
Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Hi(Bonjour)!
Be careful with used copy, Motion 1 and 2 were sold as single product in the past, not from a editing suite like Final Cut Studio 2 or 3. There was an upgrade from Apple: Final Cut Studio 5.1 that gave the intel support for those applications included in studo bundle. So, used earlier version of Motion may be not usable on your intel mac without the FCS 5.1 upgrade.
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Can I do this in Final Cut Express and or livetype 2

Hi There
I'm thinking about buying FCE 4 HD and I wanted to know if it could handle a couple of things before I do.
I wanted to do something similar to the closing credits in the movie An Inconvenient truth. Could I do this in FCE or with Livetype 2.
Here is a link to a quicktime movie of the credits I'm talking about
http://www.artofthetitle2.com/media/film/2006/aninconvenient_truth480p.mov
I'd also like to be able to create something in the style of this movie http://www.worshiphousemedia.com/mini-movies/27/The-Crowd-Or-The-Cross
Is that something that final cut express could handle?
I'm also interested to know if i could do some sort of page turn effect i.e. the screen peels off from one corner to reveal the next scene, is this something that could be done?
Thanks in advance for your replies. I appreciate that technical ability will be needed and I'm happy to put in the time to get the skills but I'd like to know if the software is capable before i buy it.

I'm relatively new to FCE myself, so I'll answer with what I know. I'm sure the more experienced folks will either add to or correct what I say.
1) For the Inconvenient Truth thing, I believe this would best be done in LiveType, which does allow you to do animations, and to work on individual letters and characters. Whether or not it could exactly reproduce the effects in the clip, I'm not certain, but I'm sure it could come very close.
2) For the Crowd or the Cross effects, there are two things going on at once: effects on the text, and effects on the video. My gut feeling is that both FCE and LiveType can do these, with lots of work and patience, but I'll defer to other people to answer.
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I NEED HELP! How do you do this in Final Cut Express 4?

Hey guys,
I am a pretty amateur video editor, and I have been using Final Cut Express 4 for some time now for my YouTube drum covers. What I mostly use it for is for audio and video syncing and some small effects.
My question is, how the **** do you make a small video appear as a window over another video? I know that is not the best way to explain it, but I really don't know. If you don't know what I mean, I will post a screen shot of an example. Also, if there's a YouTube tutorial on how to do that that you have seen, that would be even more helpful.
I'm looking forward to your replies. Thanks for the help!
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Hi everyone! I used to have an iphone 3gs so im new to Siri. My question is regarding siri commands:
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Send a text using whatsapp
There are more but this are the most important
So.... Can you??
Thanks!

No
No
No
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