Q: Guidance requested for creating graphic animations in videos, is FCPX capable?
Hello helpful community! A two part question.
I am just getting started on video production and have some specific needs in mind. I am hoping you can let me know if FCPX can do what I am hoping, if there is an obvious solution I am missing, or what approach some of you use.
I will be doing some interview style videos, and will have multiple camera angles I need to work with. So if I understand things correctly from working with iMovie, I will have a main video timeline, and then 'cut' in and out to secondary timelines for the other angles. But I do need to have a logo sitting in the corner as well. Are there still enough timelines to cut in and out of the different camera angles while having a timeline showing the stationary graphic? iMovie did not as you could only have your primary, and one other timeline cutting in and out, but I'm hoping FCPX has the ability to overlay more than just 2 at a time? Or maybe I am going about that need the wrong way?
The second part is related, I want there to be animation to the logo/text as it comes in (like a brief intro). Not throughout the whole video or anything tremendously complex, but to animate shapes and text sliding in such as the speaker's name graphic, the show name, etc. And I'm hoping to create my own custom animations, not the familiar "text motions" that are found in iMovie. I feel like the examples I found online all look like they were very template animations and I'm hoping for much more creative opportunity in that area, If that made sense. In its most basic example I suppose, the design and animation capabilities/techniques you can do in Keynote for graphics/text being able to be put in timed motion, fades, slides, etc.
Is FCPX the right program to incorporate more complex forms of text animations as well? Or is that the work of another piece of software?
I hope this made sense. Any help is appreciated, thank you!
Mark
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Sep 19, 2016 11:40 PM
melange wrote:
....will have a main video timeline, and then 'cut' in and out to secondary timelines for the other angles. …
Nope! Please not ...
Don't think in 'tracks', when using FCPX.
For such a scenario, simply use the Multicam feature.
btw: it's fun to switch cam-angles like in a TVtruck, 'live', "aaand #2" ...
melange wrote:
.... to animate shapes and text sliding in such as the speaker's name graphic, the show name, etc. And I'm hoping to create my own custom animations, ...
You can create animations with FCPX' tools, it comes with.
More fun, more eyecandy, but demanding to learn lots of stuff: Motion5
You once create your animation there, share it to FCPX, and use it as any other template, FCPX has to offer.
Nothing you learn within a day, but no rocket-science either.
plus, there's a huge scene of developers (like me …) offering tons of free plugins, have a look at
or, my homebase
http://www.fcp.co/forum/9-free-fcpx-plugins-and-templates
BUT MOST IMPORTANT:
get familiar with FCPX, do NOT try to copy habitual workflows to it.
Apple offers a 30d free trial.
Don't start with a serious project, take time to 'play', my first projects were named "trashbin001, trashbin002, …"
Read the manual, buy a book (from Tom, for example), watch the free tuts from mabreak studio at YT (check, if it's no obsolete one!), purchase a course from rippletraining.com
Posted on Sep 20, 2016 8:36 AM