How would one go about making a photo collage like the one seen in this video. It's the little flying images after the logo. Can this be done in Final Cut or do I need to make this in Motion or something else?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKKEisn-YEQ
Thanks
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
For most of that video, all you have to do is add photo stills to the storyline. You can set how long each image will last in Preferences, or import them all, select them all, double click on the play clock and type in the length of time you want each to occupy.
At the beginning, all the individual Reuter's photographers, that can be done with a combination of Motion and an application that can make each photo "layer" a frame (like Photoshop) Once the images are "compiled" into a .mov file, it can be imported into Motion and a Replicator used to display all the frames.
[Add a Camera]
Replicator settings would be something like:
Shape: Rectangle
Arrangement: Tile fill
Size: <drag out the control points to align the images within the frame
Columns: 13
Rows: 6 [this is for the example in the video you linked... 13x6 images]
Origin: Upper Left <any corner that will allow the Build Style to be used>
Build Style: By Row
Check Shuffle Order [this makes the animation more "random looking" rather than sequential by build style]
Check 3D
You will need to uncheck Play Frames and set the Source Frame Offset to 1
Add 2 Sequence Replicator behaviors -- set their lengths for a second or so and place the 2nd one out further into the timeline [it's "in point" a couple of seconds or so past the out point of the 1st sequence replicator]
For the 1st sequence replicator:
Add Position
turn down the disclosure tirangle and adjust Z to approximately 5000
set Sequencing to From
Unit Size Custom
Start 0
End 100
Spread -- optional -- but start around 75
Traversal Constant
For the 2nd sequence replicator
basically the same as the 1st except:
Z -5000
Sequencing To
Set the Camera to Fade Out the end of the animation (far plane and far fade settings)
place an out point for the replicator at the same frame as the end of the 2nd Sequence replicator behavior.
That should get you pretty close to portrait wall animation.
Thanks. What is Replicator? Is there a tutorial I can see on how this is done?
this tutorial is pretty close to the same technique:
Fox,
Just to say that your step-by-step instructions on these (mostly Motion) boards are great. Thanks for making the effort.
Russ
No problem! I enjoy working with Motion a lot. I just try to get everyone else up to speed and fired up about it too. It's an essential companion to FCPX.
Thank you. I never thanked for that. I have tried doing this and it sort of worked but probably needs more tweaking. I haven't been able to work on this but when I get back to it again I will probably ask more questions. But thank you very much for stearing me in a right direction.
Brilliant instructions thanks so much!! And how about the text effect?? Any Idea how I go about it?
Photo collage
