What is the best technique to resize a clip and overlay it on a difficult shape, like a broken piece or mirror?

Best would be cutting a matte in Photoshop, or as Mr. Grenadier suggests, using Motion or After Effects - but here is a way to do it staying within FCP - see if this helps:
http://vimeo.com/34973575
MtD

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Well Zeb, again with the insults. If you had just stated simply "What codec" are you using that would have been fine. But instead you decided to insult me and assume I knew nothing.
FYI I started working with video in 1985 and was one of the first to use Digital Video in 1991 as a Software Developer. So I can assure you I know a lot about codecs and NLE having even written one once. One of the things I learned in IT was to always ask for the best route through a problem from the experts around you before wasting valuable time and money finding your own, and usually the dead-ends at that!
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I have developped a CMS System that renders JPEGs if it does not have the images available within the desired width already. Within my development setup (Dell Latitude D800 with ubuntu dapper drake) everything works fine and fast, as expected. Then I uploaded the application to my V20Z Server with 4gb RAM and the systems performance goes to its knees. I have hooked in a Java Profiler to see where the problem is, and it showed me that it is hanging wthin
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package de.ellumination.carmen.modules.screens;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Locale;
import javax.imageio.IIOImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.imageio.ImageWriteParam;
import javax.imageio.ImageWriter;
import javax.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriteParam;
import javax.imageio.stream.ImageOutputStream;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.turbine.modules.screens.RawScreen;
import org.apache.turbine.util.RunData;
import de.ellumination.carmen.om.ImagePeer;
public class Image extends RawScreen
public static final float DEFAULT_COMPRESSION_QUALITY = 1.0F;
* Logger for this class
private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(Image.class);
@Override
protected String getContentType(RunData data)
return "image/jpeg";
@Override
protected void doOutput(RunData data) throws Exception
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int width = data.getParameters().getInt("width", -1);
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* @param inputFile the original Image
* @param outputFile the File to store the scaled image to
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* @param inputFile the original Image
* @param outputFile the File to store the scaled image to
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* @param outputFile The File in which the Image should be stored.
* @param compressionQuality The Compression Quality to be applied to the image
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* @param width the height of the new Image
* @param height the width of the new Image
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private static void scaleImage(File outputFile, float compressionQuality, BufferedImage inputImage, int width, int height) throws IOException
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if (tempHeight > newHeight)
scaleFactor = (double) newHeight / (double) inputImage.getHeight(null);
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int height = (int) (inputImage.getHeight(null) * scaleFactor);
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