Zooming in on Final Cut Express 4

How do I zoom in on Videos in Final Cut Express 4? What I mean is like I have a video and I want to zoom in on someone to let people see who the person is. Like if theres a school photo I want it the whole picture Zoom in on myself then zoom back to the whole picture again. Please answer Thanks in Advance!

Load your clip into the viewer, and click on the Motion tab. Adjust the Scale parameter.
I would recommend searching the manual for "keyframing".

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Does anyone have experience with using a Canon Vixia HF M52 Camcorder with Final Cut Express?

I'm looking to purchase a new camcorder that is compatible with my Mac OS X (10.6.8) that will work well with Final Cut Express 4.0.1 I have downloaded the camcorder support info from Final Cut Express that list many capital camcorders. I've used Sony tape based camcorders in the past. I'm looking for High Definition. I can stick with a tape based camcorder, but thought I would look at the Canon Vixia HF M52 as an alternative, which is listed as compatible. I would like to download directly from the camera to FCE. I film in the wilderness, like having an optical zoom of 20 or greater (yes, I use a small tripod). Does anyone have experience with the Canon Vixia? And if not, but you really like another camcorder that you can recommend, what is it?

The Vixia HF M52 is an AVCHD camcorder and should work perfectly fine with Final Cut Express 4 (4.0.1).
The published "camcorder support list" has never been up to date and I would not take it to be a definitive list of compatible camcorders.
One note, however, the Vixia HF M52 supports a number of different shooting modes. I suggest sticking with the AVCHD 1920 x 1080i / 60 fps mode for use with FCE. FCE does not support progressive modes except in 720p25/30 (which the M52 does not seem to shoot anyway); nor does FCE support any 24 fps modes.

Final Cut Express 4 Rendering of Still images

I recently upgraded to Final Cut Express HD. Now, whenever I bring in still images, they come in as unrendered. Before, they would still be able to preview. If I do pan and zooms, it has to rerender. Is there anyway I can bring back the preview mode, as this will seriously slow my work.

Switch your timeline's RT popup to Unlimited RT. Uncheck the box for warn next time if/when you get a dropped frame dialog box.

Good substitute for Final Cut Express?

I tried a free month of Final Cut Express over a year ago. When done I found that the version I got If I bought was a newer version. I presume the two versions involved were 3.5 and 4.0. So I must have tried 3.5.
I liked it a lot! It would have been $200 as I recall. Now I find that It's no longer available. It had all the function I want and I cannot afford to pay for Final Cut Pro considering the relatively small amount of "work" I intend to do with it. I've since upgraded to Mountain Lion and it appears I cannot run Final Cut Express on this system. Plus, my iMac is mid 2010 with 4gb memory.
Is there some app out there that can do what FCE did?
One function in particular was very useful to me as a musician -- being able to stretch the audio from my Zoom recorder to match the audio/video from my camcorder.
Thanks for the help.

Hello David
Quick question which may be helpful for Bruce:
I'm familiar with the controversy over the original release of FCX. There was great disatisfaction and disappointment because the first release appeared to be more of a glorified iMovie. Many professional features were replaced with templates creating a 'dumbed down' platform, (nothing like FCP).
Many FC Pro users were outraged. Many abandoned FC, and went with Avid.
Is it true Apple admitted to a 'flawed design' with X, and put back a lot of Pro features that were missing?
Thanx
Mike

Final Cut Express 4.0 Help. :((((

Hi guys I am having a few problems with Final Cut Express.
I have used a screen recorder (Screenflick) to record clips of my desktop with dimensions 765 x 503. They save as a .mov file and I don't compress them to avoid quality loss.
I am wondering if there is a setting in Final Cut Express 4.0 which allows you to edit clips and string them together in the dimensions of 765 x 503. At the moment, I am using DV-NTSC (720 x 480) which is the closest I can find at the moment. When I edit my clips with zoom in effects and I export the movies, there is an enormous quality loss even if I export with no compression. Any ideas to prevent this?
Also, when I add transitions between my clips they won't go larger than 0.001 seconds. The clips are recorded with 60 frames per second so there should be plenty of frames for the video transitions. Any ideas why this isn't working?
All help appreciated guys, thank you.

The inability to create transitions is because your clips do not have "handles". For a full description read this article carefully - several times if necessary:-
http://www.fcpbook.com/Effects1.html
The problem is caused because you cannot put transitions between COMPLETE clips.
You MUST cut off at least half a second from the end of each clip where it "touches" the transition.
That's HOW you do it ........ the article will explain WHY.

Thinking about Final Cut Express

I am planning on getting an HD camcorder further down the line. For now all I have is my digital camera that records video. My question is, can Final Cut Express 4 work with .mpg and .mov files? And if I get FC4, is there any reason to still use iMovie? In other words, can FC4 do everything iMovie '09 can and more?

in addition ..
I was an iM enthusiast since vers2..
now, I'm a switcher - I like the options and control FCE offers, allthough the '1 click only' attitude of iM is still seductive
example: Ken Burns.
reading this (=the FCE) board, we frequently see posts asking for plug-ins etc to add the convenience of KB as in iM (two frame handles, done).
you have to understand the concept of keyframing and timelines and xyz-coordinates to create a KB effect in FCE - seems to be complicated, but offers you much more than iM ever did, incl. a simple zoom-to/from-zil ..
perhaps, you miss 'Themes' in the beginning.. after a while, you produce your own 'Themes' in FCE!

HELP HELP HELP Final Cut Express HELP HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just got Final Cut Express and I a having so much trouble. First of all I can’t get videos to import from my camera, so I put them into imovie and converted them to xml files. When I bring the xml files into final cut all it says its media offline. I went and located them still the same. So then I just exported the videos from imovie to my desktop and dragged them into final cut. This worked but it takes almost two hours to complete this process. Now I have a clip final cit and I render it, but if I move the clip the slightest bit the clip says it’s un-rendered. I hear all about how I need to match the rate sizes but I cannot figure out how to do this. Please help me I am getting so frustrated.
The camera I am using is a Samsung HMX-H200 Camcorder - 1080i - 3.32 MP - 20 x optical zoom is that will help
Thank you
Gerald

Hi and welcome to the forum!
Your camera shoots in H.264, a delivery format that FCE does not support. You should first convert your clips using the free [MPEG Streamclip|http://www.squared5.com> to Quicktime in the Apple Intermediate Codec at a frame size of 1920x1080, a frame rate of 29.97fps, and audio set to Uncompressed Stereo 48kHz. Streamclip has a batch convert function that you may find useful.
Once you are done converting (don't use iMovie, go straight from the camera to Streamclip), import the clips into FCE and edit them in a 1920x1080i60 sequence for best results. You shouldn't have to render.
Sasha

Photos used in Final Cut Express

WHen I include photos from iPhoto in my Final Cut Express movie and put the movie to DVD; some of the photos displayed on the TV are good while others are distorted and jump or flicker while displaying. It appears that the ones that are 800K or less display good while those that are about 2GB are the problem. Apple care told me that the photo resolution when taken photos to use in Final Cut Express HD should be set at 720x480 or there abouts.. No where in any documentation can I find this information. Even when I put in a call to the Final Cut Express technical help they could give me an answer. Can anyone help with this... MY DV camcoreder clips display perfectly.. Ken Landgraf

(I'll assume you meant 2MB, not 2GB, Ken.)
I also expect you are talking about distortions when you zoom and pan the photos. 720x480 is okay for still photos and it resolves to about the resolution of a TV screen. If you want to zoom in, you should guess the magnification and approximate the dimensions so that the zoomed portion resolves at about 720x480. A 2MB photos is likely to be from a 4megapixel camera (highest resolution setting) and 2300x1700 pixels.
Note that a 'still' photo in FCE will usually look sharper than on a TV because of the whole chain of 1950s technology that produces a TV image.
If you are commenting on distortions you see when watching your video in FCE, you really need to 'render' the video and watch it on a TV monitor. 'Jumpiness' can be an artifact of the RT rendering or (lack of) TV interlacing.
If you are zooming in/out of images and you're seeing lots of sparkly artifacts, like shimmering on water ripples, try adding a 'gaussian blur' and/or 'flicker' filter to a clip. Either will soften artifacts without much blurring of either the zooming image.

IMovie to Final Cut Express

Took an iMovie edited ad I did for a painting event in our town and transferred it back to Canon HD CMOS camera. Transferred that into Final Cut Express for some more color tweaking and the quality dropped significantly. Why? It was brought in the correct format as the camera HD 1080/60.
I brought a rough edit into the camera before and brought that back into iMovie as a clip and that quality is great.

New Question as well. It took ages to render the project clip sequence in the timeline. Then I was attempting to experiment with zooming into a scene. Set Motion Key frame, then marked an in point and noticed everything on the timeline is now unrendered again. What? I noticed that before in short shots on another project, but this is so huge to re render again and again. what have I done wrong to "unrender the sequence?" Do I need to cut up the section I;m working on first in the wireframe, so it doesn't affect the entire clip/project and unrender it?
Thanks for your help! Signing off for the evening, will check in again in the AM.. You guys are the best.
Monika

Final Cut Express "Light Rays" Effect

Might also be called 'Trap Door Effect'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1FhvN_PUxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPuh61ivmyg
It's commonly used in Sony Vegas productions.
One complicated way of doing it in FCE would be to use multiple layers of video, add a Gaussian Blur and increase the zoom on the bottom layer while lowering the Opacity on the top layer, but in order to smoothly animate the rays you'd have to do some rather convoluted things.
Is there a simple way to do this in Final Cut Express (using 3.5 right now, considering upgrading) for both video and text?

I don't believe the "Light Rays" filter included with FCE 4 is the effect you want. It makes the clip look a lot different than the examples you provided. Effects like the one you are looking for need to be created by themselves, and not just applied. Tom's book definitely explains how to do this, but I was unsuccessful as of yet in finding the exact lesson (part of the problem is that I don't know exactly what such an effect was called, so I can't just look it up in the index. It's a 300-something page book, so finding a particular section without remembering its name is a little tricky...)
I will continue to keep my eye out. I believe it has something to do with creating two text tracks, applying some sort of glow to the bottom one, and keyframing its movement. Will let you know when I know for sure.

I'm running Final Cut Express 2. How can I move entire project and application from one internal hard drive to another? Ran out of space on one drive. Thanks.

I'm running Final Cut Express 2. My video project is 95% done and I've run out of space on my 500g internal hard drive. How can I (1) move the complete FCE program and video to my unused 250g internal hard drive and operate it from there and (2) how do I then purge all the FCE info from the 500g drive without losing anything from the 250 drive?
Also, is it possible to change the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 when the project is finished? If so, how? I now know this all should have been done before I started. Thanks for the help.

1. You can't move the application. It must remain on the system drive. Move your capture scratch folder to the external FireWire drive and use the reconnect function in the project.
2. What's the media 16:9 or 4:3?

My external hard drive is 'seen' by my iMac and I can go into the Finder and open files and folders. I am using the hard drive for Time Machine back up. However Time Machine says it can't find the drive. Same thing has happened with Final Cut Express.

My new LaCie external hard drive is 'seen' by my iMac and I can go into the Finder and open files and folders. I am using the hard drive for Time Machine back up. However Time Machine says it can't find the drive.
The same thing happened recently between Final Cut Express and my other LaCie external hard drive used as the Scratch disk. It fixed itself.
I've run out of ideas. Help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

have you done some searches on FCPx and time machine? Is there a known issue with using a TM drive with FCPx? dunno but ...wait...I'll take 60 sec for you cause I'm just that kind of guy.... google...." fcpx time machine problem" Frist page link
http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/fcpx-bug-best-practices-for-using-external-hard- drives-and-final-cut-pro-x/
You cannot have time machine backups on your hard drive if you intend to use it in FCPX.
booya!

Final Cut Express won't allow me to capture from my vdo camera

I just loaded Final Cut Express HD on my Mac because I wanted to upgrade from IMOVIE. My Powerbook G4 had no problem capturing video with my Sony HDV 1080i video camera. But I can't get Final Cut Express HD to locate my camera at all no matter what "easy setup" setting I choose. But if I turn on IMOVIE, the program can capture from my video camera no problem. I know the firewire cable is hooked to the computer correctly & the camera is on & in the VTR mode. If anyone can help me identify this problem, I'd really appreciate it because I'm trying to begin a new video project & can't if I can't capture video. Thanks for helping.

Fritz from Technical support told me about a glitch in Final Cut Pro & Express HD that happens when you upgrade to Quicktime 7. He told me to go to this article: Link: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n301852
and follow the instructions & it would fix my problem. It didn't & then of course I called tech support back & it was after hours. I still can't capture from my video camera but it works in IMOVIE. I removed Final Cut Express HD from my computer (even all the files in library/users, etc.) and then reinstalled it. It still gives me the same error even though I have my camera plugged in & turned on. It says unable to locate capture device. This is unbelievable. Hopefully I can get some help. Brian

Final cut Express unable to capture

My Final Cut Express wont initialize my deck. A dialog box comes up saying so. one site suggest deleting quicktime receipts in my library folder on my mac, that quicktime needs to be reinstalled, then i should be able to get my canon HV20 video camera to communicate with FCE 4 and start capturing. has anyone heard of resolving my "unable to initialize video deck" issue this way? Any ideas how to get my HV20 and FCP to communicate to eachother?

There is a separate forum for FCE.
Make sure you are using the correct HDV settings in FCE and that the camera is set to output HDV and not downconvert.

Final Cut Express won't capture audio with the video anymore, why?

I have used Final Cut Express 4 for over a year now with no problems, but recently I am unable to capture any audio with the video from my camera. I can do it through iMovie no problem. I can't figure out if I changed a setting by accident because everything looks normal to me. Could another program be interfering with this? Quicktime Pro? I have no idea how to fix this.

First of all, we need a bunch of information in order to help. Please provide the specs of the footage and the sequence you are using. Also, are you using DV, HDV, or AVCHD? Do you hear audio when the clip is played in the viewer, or is there no audio at all once the clip is captured/ingested?

Zooming in on Final Cut Express 4

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