IMovie effects in FCP

I recently purchased iLife 08 and wanted to use some of the effects (transitions) in FCP. Is this possible?

No, they aren't compatible.
But what are looking for?
Maybe something else is available that is.

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Imovie style effects in FCP

how does one go about creating imovie style effects in FCP
like aged film, or rain, or film look
do i need to buy third party filters?

Graeme Nattress (www.nattress.com) has a very well regarded group of filters that will do "film look" as well as imitating aged film. Not sure what rain look is.
Or, edit your project in FCP, export a .dv file and run it through iMovie with whatever effect you'd like to apply.
x

Lightning Bolt Effect in FCP?

I'm looking for a way to do the cheesy iMovie/Premiere lightning bolt effect in FCP. Anyone know of one that is free? Thanks.

Yeah, I checked that out but it was only a few frames.
Eventually I exported a clip of the lightning over black from iMovie, brought it into FCP, keyed it, and then was able to shape and distort it to my liking.

IMovie HD to FCP HD

iMovie HD imports my HDV footage from my new Sony HDR-HC7camera, whereas my current version of FCP HD does not.
(I hear rumours that FCP 6 is about to be released, so I'm waiting to upgrade my FCP HD software from 4.5 to 6)
In the mean time I am searching for a way to use my footage imported into iMovie in FCP HD.
FCP HD won't open my iMovie projects, but it will import iMovie clips.
However: when I import the clips from my iMovie project into FCP HD the "Media Performance Warning" window pops up telling me that "the following media are not optimised for FCP HD"...
The clips do appear in the Browser, and do play back OK. They also render OK.
But before I spend hours editing a FCP HD project with these clips: does anyone have any experience with this? What are the implications of the "Media Performance Warning" message? Is there anything I should be doing now to avoid problems with editing or output later?
The other thing I haven't been able to work out: where exactly does iMovie store its clips?? There doesn't seem to be a designated folder for iMovie media (ie no "Capture Scratch" like in FCP). They just seem to be in the iMovie Project but you can't get at them other than by dragging them out of the Clip Pane in the iMovie project. Am I missing something here?

Sorry, I didn't look to see that you were using 4.4, even though you probably posted it. Sometimes I read too fast and don;t register everything. I think that 4.5 to 5.1 was about the same here as well. the $49 deal was only for people crossgrading from 5.0 to 5.1.
I haven't had any problems with 5.1 yet... but that probably because I haven't installed the disks yet... I guess...
I have too many projects working right now with 5.0 and other people not upgrading, and so far I have no limitations with 5.0. But I am getting to it...
Hope 6 is affordable for us semi-pros...
Glad you found your answers.
Matt

Newbie Question: Why can't I open my iMovie project in FCP?

Hello all--
I'm sure some variation of this question has been posted a bajillion times but I can't seem to find the answer. At this point I feel like a damsel in distress. Rescue me?
I've been working with iMovie for about two years now and I've recently been learning Final Cut Pro to up the ante on my videos. However, when I tried to import an iMovie project into FCP yesterday, it didn't quite work. Let me explain what I did and what happened:
1) I exported my (edited but previously unpublished) iMovie project by clicking Share>Export Final Cut XML
2) I opened FCP and clicked File>Import>XML and then selected the XML, leaving all the boxes checked
3) FCP imported the project as a sequence; however, the entire sequence reads "Media Offline" in the Canvas.
4) I clicked File>Reconnect Media and the list of offline files is overwhelming. I tried my luck by clicking "locate" and going to my imovie folders to find the clips, but even when the browser allowed me to select a clip, when I double clicked it, nothing in the sequence changed - it's all still "offline."
I really don't know much about media management, I'll admit - I'm wondering if maybe iMovie saves edited clips in a folder other than the events or originals folder - maybe the edited clips become "temporary items"? I know I have a ridiculous amount of imovie cache and temporary items and I never touch them because there are just so many of them and I don't want to mess anything up. But could the files that FCP claims to be "offline" in fact be located in these "temporary" folders? I mean, I've looked everywhere else on my hard drive and nothing is working! Sorry, I am probably just confusing myself MORE (and you), but maybe SOMEONE will know what in the world I should do
Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the family. I don't think many of us have ever used iMovie so your post might be more quickly answered in that forum.
My suggestion is to forget trying to move the project. Rebuild it in FCP. The exercise will teach you much more about your new software than fighting XML.
If you don't feel like doing that, try a smaller iMovie project, something with only two or three clips and one dissolve.
The larger issue is probably how iMovie stores its captured media which is completely different from how FCP does it. And the format is different. FCP does not, IIRC, view iMovie's default dvstream codec. You will want to export your movie clips as DV.
bogiesan
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Muted Color Effect in FCP

I have a clip that i need to make look really boring and dull. Other than changing it to black and white is there any other effect in FCP i can use to make it look muted and dull? Cheers.

you could add a sepia filter, but make the sepia grey from the colour picker,
rgb filter and dial out some of the colours, colour corrector 3way and crush the mids, duplicate the timeline video layer and blend composite mode to soft light or screen or add

Is it possible to recreate this effect on FCP or Motion?

Hi there, I'm attempting to recreate this multi luma key effect on FCP but it is proving diffucult? Are there any methods for this to work on either FCP or Motion?
Thanks in advance,
http://youtu.be/Gctf0n8b3F4?t=13s

Yeah - it's possible, but not without some trickery.
First download and install this:
http://sight-creations.com/fxexchange/LumaFill.zip
if you need installation instructions, go here: http://sight-creations.com/install4fcpx/ (this is an Effect).
You need greenscreen media. Apply the Keyer to the greenscreen footage. After the Keyer, apply Luma Fill. Select the Drop Zone source well and click on the clip you want to place inside the "person" (or whatever's left of the green screen). (The drop zone source can be from the event browser OR from the storyline [or connected clip -- and you can "hide" clips underneath the storyline.])
Place a generator or another clip (or clips) beneath the clip to serve as a background.
Adjust the Luma Fill with the Levels control -- drag the White Point down towards the black to "open it up". Or adjust the gamma (grey/middle control) upwards to create a mix (and try some of the other parameter controls as well.)
[this greenscreen footage also has tracking marks... ]
You can also use this effect (without a keyer) on "plain" (non-greenscreen) media and with or without drop zone media -- it's a cool way to add a mix of Black & White over whatever you place the clip. [Add drop zone media for a 3-way mix.]
[stockfootage from BottledVideo.com and HollywoodCameraWork.us (greenscreen media)]
PS - if FCPX "freaks" a little (doesn't show the effects in the video pane) simply select the transform icon under the left corner of the view, then click the Done button (that's all you need to do -- the effects should reappear in the Video inspector.) I didn't notice any adverse effects beyond that.
HTH

Is iMovie's AIC = FCP's AIC?

Can I import my AVCHD footage into iMovie, and then used by FCP in the future? I am pretty sure iMovie use AIC when importing AVCHD.
Is there anyone know how big file size if transcoding a 2-minutes AVCHD to AIC or Apple ProRes 422 (LT)?
Quote from the FCP manual:
About Transcoded AVCHD Files and Disk Space
When you ingest AVCHD files using the *Log and Transfer* window, video is transcoded to either an Apple ProRes codec or the *Apple Intermediate Codec*. AVCHD has a much higher compression ratio than Apple ProRes, so the ingested files are significantly larger than the original files. For example, a _2-minute native AVCHD file is about 200–300 MB. After transcoding to the Apple ProRes 422 codec, the file size can be as large as 2 GB._
To create smaller files during transfer, transcode AVCHD files to *Apple ProRes 422 (LT)*. For more information about the relative data rates and file sizes for these formats, see Working with Apple ProRes.

Thanks, X, that info does help me understand the transcode file size. But on the other side of my question, can I borrow my iMovie's import file to FCP? Coz both of iMovie and FCP use AIC as intermediate file format for editing, are they?
The reason I want get this done is that I am using iMovie for the family vedio editing with many of great footages I could use in my business projects. I am just feeling lazy and to save hard drive space if I could have FCP reuse iMovie's AIC imported file, rather then log and transfer those AIC footages already imported by iMovie. Of course, if all of these under the assumption of iMovie's AIC = FCP's AIC and could be resued are correct.
Thanks.

Keynote transition effects on fcp

Just wondering if anyone know how I can use keynote effects on fcp. Or how I can get transition plugins that Keynote program is using to use in fcp.

Hi MooVee,
Afraid that Keynote and FCP are two different beasts, so there's no plug-in infrastructure or the like to share transition styles.
You can, however, generate clips in Keynote and export them as QuickTime movies into Final Cut. I use Keynote as my primary titling tool, as it's so fast and easy to use. For creating titles, be sure that your Master has a Transparent (None) background, and your slide the same. Then create your title animation, and Export it as a QuickTime movie with the "Include transparency" checkbox ticked, and using the Animation compression settings. This will give you a QT clip with an alpha channel that you can add to your FCP timeline.
I sometimes monkey with the size of the Keynote master to match the video size, and bring in still screenshots form the video to put in as a compositional reference (deleting it, of course, when I export the movie). But as you know, you can ultimately adjust the placement of the video in FCP, so it's not always necessary.

Can i merge iMovie library to FCP ?

i have imac not so much hard drive space
is it possible i can use one library imovie and FCP ?
share events and projects
so that i dont have to create whole new librray takes all my hd space?
i was just wonderfing if its possible
any idea?

Yes it is possible.
When you import iMovie Events into FCP, it uses HARD LINKS to the media clips. This means that you will have an iMovie Event clip that is hard linked to the actual clip on the drive. The FCP Event will have a separate hard link to the same physical clip. This means you can use the clip in both iMovie and in FCP without doubling up on disk space. It also means that if you delete an event from iMovie, you do not regain any disk space unless you also delete it from Final Cut Pro. Only when all hard links have been removed can you reclaim space.
When you do this in iMovie 11 (Version 9) and FCP version 10.0.8, you can import the entire iMovie Event Library all at once. It does not take long because it is not copying, it is just creating the hard links.
If you are using iMovie version 10 (the new one) and Final Cut Pro 10.1, Then it still uses hard links, but the procedure is different. iMovie version 10 and FCP 10.1 both use a new Library Structure. In this case you initiate the sharing of a project to FCP 10.1 from iMovie, rather than from within FCP.

Is This The Best Way To Put iMovie Effects On An FCE Clip?

I have often suggested to other people that they should export clips from FCE to iMovie in order to make use of certain iMovie effects that FCE can't do.
As with most things there are several different ways of "transporting" the clips.
Bearing in mind that we want the quickest/lossless method possible, is this the best?
1. In the FCE Timeline double-click the clip.
2. Select File>Export>QuickTime Movie and click "Save".
3.Open a new iMovie Project, import the newly made QuickTime Movie clip and add the necessary effect.
4. Back in FCE, Import the QuickTime Movie from the iMovie Project.
Is this in fact the best way or do you know of a better/quicker one?
Ian.

Thanks for the confirmation, Tom.
By "clip" I was actually meaning a few seconds of video I had chopped up on the timeline.
What caught me out initially was when I simply highlighted the 10 second "clip" and selected QuickTime Movie.
The estimated time for conversion was around 10 minutes! It was actually making a QT Movie of the complete Sequence, not just the selected "clip". I soon realised that the "clip" needed double-clicking to ensure that only the required 10 seconds were converted.
Ian.

A Better Way to "Preview" Effects in FCP?

Okay, in Motion (which I've recently started using), you can browse various effects (filters, behaviors, etc.) in the Library Pane and see a helpful little thumbnail movie, along with a verbal description, which gives you a good idea of what kind of "effect" that particular Effect is going to have.
I'm told (though I've not used either app myself) that both iMovie '08 and Adobe's Premiere have a similar mini-preview function to help you choose the right filter and/or transition.
So my question is (before submitting another Feature Request to the FCP team): what is the closest thing to this much appreciated function in the current version of Final Cut?
I'm currently working on a project which demands a very wide variety of different (and sometimes even intentionally cheesy) filters and transitions. So I seem to spend a lot of time in my Browser's Effects tab searching for "something different", or wondering "what the heck does this one do?" -- and often having to actually drop the effect and/or transition into a Timeline (and then reading e-mails while it renders), just to get a sense of what it actually does.
So...
— Has anyone created some sort of "FCP Effects Previewer" that mimics the kind of function already built-in to Motion?
— Is there a website somewhere with easy-to-search little examples of every Final Cut filter and transition?
— Or has anyone even a created a pdf with clear verbal descriptions and accompanying screenshots of same (or even just simple diagrams to illustrate all the different wipe transitions)?
So far my Googling on this topic hasn't been very successful, but I'd appreciate any tips on where to look.
Thanks,
John Bertram
Toronto

Hi again.
FWIW, it was Motion which I've only recently started using. I've actually been working with FinalCut since version 4.5, though so far not for "paying clients" (in other words, just for my own indie film work, plus some pro bono projects for friends in theater and business presentations). So in that sense my work as a "professional" editor is mostly pre-NLE, cutting 16mm docs and TV episodes on Steenbecks a couple of lifetimes ago.
But you've raised an interesting point, which I guess could be summarized as the ongoing tension between making a Pro App "stronger" (more versatile, more compatible, more stable) while also trying to make its interface “friendlier" (easier to learn, easier to customize, easier to navigate, etc.). And I can certainly understand how, for those who've slogged their way up several years of learning curves, the former category is always going to be top priority in terms of how Apple allocates its development resources.
But whenever I venture into a previously unexplored quadrant of the Final Cut galaxy (and that can include even just an Effects Tab folder I've never opened before), I definitely experience that Newbie Chill all over again. So I've always hoped (perhaps naively) that FinalCut's development could pursue BOTH goals simultaneously -- overhaul the Media Manager; keep adding those new codecs -- while at the same time keep making the FCP interface a more inviting, more comfortable place in which to work.
When I think about the many FCP Feedback Suggestions I've submitted over the years (also for Logic Express then Logic Studio), I can see how a lot of them -- not all, but quite a few -- would fall into that second, “user-friendliness” category. The irony is that many of the feature requests I've submitted for the Consumer apps -- ways to make iPhoto, say (or Address Book, or Pages, or whatever) more powerful -- would fall into the first category, the it-really-should-be-able-to-do-this-or-that, "beefing up the engine" one. And those suggestions, when discussed in their respective forums, have sometimes drawn the criticism of "Hey c'mon -- it's just a Consumer App".
But every once in a while, a new version gets released, and some progress is made on both fronts. So I guess I’ll just keep tilting at both windmills for now.
Cheers,
jb

IMovie 11 to FCP Pro X: cure for single-field?

I've got a lengthy home movie (sourced from a DV tape) that I've edited in iMovie 11. Unfortunately, I've been stuck with the single-field processing issue where the output is effectively at half resolution. Now that I can import this movie into FCP Pro X, I'm wondering whether that will cure this single-field problem, if I then continue editing in FCP and output it from there? Or will I need to scrap the project, start from scratch, and re-import from the camcorder into FCP directly?

"Some of the procedures I've seen before changed all of the dates to the day of conversion and I need to save the original info."
Very good question.
I've been testing with tapes that have analog video copied to them so the DV time/date is meaningless. They only show the date I copied them from VHS to DV. When I'm sorting to clips to folders I have to remember is this Japan 1989 or 1991? Then name the TO folder based upon my memory. And of course I don't need the DV timecode in iMovie when I edit.
You need the Time and Date information from the camera to be used to date the folder when the video is imported into iMovie. Correct?
I will test with some video shot with the DV camera.
PS: Here is a description of how CatDV figures out how to divide a long movie into "clips."
CatDV uses two methods to detect scene changes.
It detects the start and end of each scene or shot in a DV movie using the digital date and time information recorded to tape by DV and Digital8 camcorders. As a result it is normally 100% frame accurate in the scenes it identifies in captured footage. On rendered footage and analog material, on the other hand, this extra information is missing and so CatDV won't be able to detect any scene changes using the DV method.
CatDV also has the ability to compare the actual visual content of successive frames to detect scene changes. This allows you to import and log footage captured from an analog capture card for example. By its nature this method is not foolproof, however, and is liable to detect false changes when there is rapid movement within a scene, and to miss changes, for example if the camera is held on a tripod between shots and there is very little change between them, or if you have applied a fade or dissolve between two clips. It is also slow and computationally intensive, and so whenever you have the choice you should prefer to use the DV-based detection on original footage.
You can control which detection algorithm(s) are used when importing movies in the Preferences dialog.

Quicktime Movie created in iMovie plays in FCP timeline but NO AUDIO

I don't get any sound out of the Quicktime movie I made in iMovie when I drag it into Final Cut Pro. I get the red line indicating that it needs to be rendered, but even after I render, there is no sound.
Can this be remedied?
Rx

I got the movie into FCP a couple of different ways, hearing no audio the first way then trying to bring it in another way to see if it gave me audio. First I imported the QT movie that resulted from my iMovie project. I found it in my external drive where I had it stored, and I imported it.
When I detected a problem, I undid that and opened Finder, selected the external drive, found my movie and dragged the icon into my bin.
In either case, when I opened it in the canvas, it played -- video only. When I dragged it into the timeline, it separated the media into one channel of video and two channels of audio. It would play -- video only. There was a red render bar that I eliminated by rendering all, to no effect for recovering audio, and then by rendering 'audio only,' which also didn't work.
I then tried dragging in a second iMovie QT project to see if the same problem existed. It did. With that project, however, responding to the red render bar by hitting 'render all' gave me a window saying it would take two hours. Why that wasn't the case for the other movie, I don't know. Perhaps it's the only one that might have worked, should I have had two hours to wait. It freaked me out a little 'cuz it didn't even appear to start working on the render after several moments of watching my cursor turn into a rainbow on and off. So I just closed it out and posted my question.
Rx

HDV P&B effect on FCP

I am editing HDV on FCP 6.0 and it won´t let me add video effect to dessaturate de picture!
What am I doing wrong?
FCP 6.0.2
HDV imported from IMOVIE HD on XML sequences on 920X...

I seem to recall a post on here regarding field order dominance, and having to change it with HDV.
Read this post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1067066&#1067066
This was a nice article about someone's struggles and final successful workflow with HDV.

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