New to FCE from Sony's Vegas - Keyframe question - Video Generator - Text
Hello All
Well, I came over from 13 years on PC and 6 years of Sony's Vegas Pro. So please forgive me if I don't know much MAC Speak yet! Just bought a new MacBookPro and FCE.
I decided to jump right in to get my feet wet while I'm waiting for Tom Wolsky's Book FCE 4 Editing Workshop to arrive from Amazon. Was able to get some clips on the timeline and do a few things following the video tuts at Apple's site. Bought QT pro for my internet PC so I could DL and watch the videos as I work. Network is 2 PC's + my MBP.
Question is; I got my video on V1, and black box on V2 (we called it generated media in Vegas) and V3 has a little yellow number (text). I do tehnical training videos as well as Tourist DVD's and Legal Video work.
In Vegas we could set keyframes at either the timeline level (track motion) or event level (event pan/crop).
A; I have to put little numbers in little black boxes to overlay on the video to label varioous items in the videos. First thing I did was went to "Effects" "Shapes" "Rectangle". HA! Now I don't remember how I sized it and placed it but is there a way to unlock an aspect ratio as I sometimes need to size the box and keeping an aspect ratio prevents me from accuratly sizing the box. I then moved it into position.
V3 has the Text.
Can I copy the fist black box and paste it down the line on the same track? (In Vegas we just held the CTRL key and dragged to copy) I tried holding the option key and it copied it but also split the video in V1!
B When I keyframe an item, is it for that item only or at the track level? If it's at the track level then I'd have to reset the keyframe after every event so I can resize the next one.
These black boxes and numbers don't move. So maybe keyframing is not the riht term. Once I set them they stay put. I may have hundreds of them in a video.
Also when placing these items, in Vegas I could put them on any track above the video. Sometimes I'd have them directly above each other. So maybe I have a set on V2-3 and another set on V4-5. They won't affect each other will they? Each will still show up in the video?
C; Okay I want to copy the little set (v-2 and v-3) together and paste them elsewhere. I tried every combination to select both tracks and copy but it doesn't work. How can I select multiple items on multiple tracks and copy/paste?
Thanks much
Allen
Well, I came over from 13 years on PC and 6 years of Sony's Vegas Pro. So please forgive me if I don't know much MAC Speak yet! Just bought a new MacBookPro and FCE.
I decided to jump right in to get my feet wet while I'm waiting for Tom Wolsky's Book FCE 4 Editing Workshop to arrive from Amazon. Was able to get some clips on the timeline and do a few things following the video tuts at Apple's site. Bought QT pro for my internet PC so I could DL and watch the videos as I work. Network is 2 PC's + my MBP.
Question is; I got my video on V1, and black box on V2 (we called it generated media in Vegas) and V3 has a little yellow number (text). I do tehnical training videos as well as Tourist DVD's and Legal Video work.
In Vegas we could set keyframes at either the timeline level (track motion) or event level (event pan/crop).
A; I have to put little numbers in little black boxes to overlay on the video to label varioous items in the videos. First thing I did was went to "Effects" "Shapes" "Rectangle". HA! Now I don't remember how I sized it and placed it but is there a way to unlock an aspect ratio as I sometimes need to size the box and keeping an aspect ratio prevents me from accuratly sizing the box. I then moved it into position.
V3 has the Text.
Can I copy the fist black box and paste it down the line on the same track? (In Vegas we just held the CTRL key and dragged to copy) I tried holding the option key and it copied it but also split the video in V1!
B When I keyframe an item, is it for that item only or at the track level? If it's at the track level then I'd have to reset the keyframe after every event so I can resize the next one.
These black boxes and numbers don't move. So maybe keyframing is not the riht term. Once I set them they stay put. I may have hundreds of them in a video.
Also when placing these items, in Vegas I could put them on any track above the video. Sometimes I'd have them directly above each other. So maybe I have a set on V2-3 and another set on V4-5. They won't affect each other will they? Each will still show up in the video?
C; Okay I want to copy the little set (v-2 and v-3) together and paste them elsewhere. I tried every combination to select both tracks and copy but it doesn't work. How can I select multiple items on multiple tracks and copy/paste?
Thanks much
Allen
Windows / MacBook Pro, Windows XP Pro
