Can I make this in FCPX?

Hi

If you re new to editing and motion graphics, then it will be hard to get right first of all in any software. But all of this is achievable in FCPX. Some of the graphic elements might have been created in another app, like photoshop or similar and then imported into fcpx.

Good luck

adam

Not really. FCPX is a video editor, not an effects system. You can do most of those effects using Motion but Motion is an effects system, not a video editor. Drawing masks around individual characters and putting masked circles around them is tedious. You can create presets that will make the job easier but that's very advanced Motion work.

That soccer game thingy used a screen capture device that allows zooming and moving, I think, and probably has all of those isolation and highlighting effects built in. I don't known nothin' 'bout no gaming videos so just guessin'. Much easier to do with dedicated hardware than software. There must be some gaming developers and game sales trade organizations where you can find out what hardware and software products these folks use.

Wsit, are you not doing gaming promos? You're doing sports analysis?

Yes, it's all possible but you want to expore the devices that the big dogs use on network football games. Try searching for Telestrator, that was one fo the first drawing devices used on live American football broadcasts back in the 1970s. I think it's still a thing.

CPS new wrote:

… We are wanting to make sure we can create something similar to this on FCPX before we buy it. We are wanting to make in game tutorials for our clients much like this video here … at the :28 mark. We like the dark overlays and the rings/arrows etc for editing. Is this possible to do?…

That's a no-brainer 😉 … if you done it before, like me …

Asks for for some additional help from a painting.app, here in use Pixelmator (29$).

Your example shows the effects are applied to non-moving parts of the clip, which makes it really easy, cooking recipe following:

Step #1:

Add freeze/export freeze

set playhead, shift-H, share, done.

open resulting png in Pixelmator...

Step #2

select player, PM has a 'magic marker', doing that in seconds

when player is selected, apply effects on separate layers, example here 'Stroke/outline', or…

… or Inverse selection/lower brightness, or add a dotted line, an arrow, wotever...

Step #3

Export as Photoshop document/psd, drag into your FCPX Project.

Notice the tiny Compound Icon upper left! That means …

… that a double-click opens that 'clip', and each layer on its own lane.

Now, movie magic begins:

Step #4

Switch layers/lanes on/off, keyboard shortcut V, or fade it in/out:

darken…

outline…

combined darkened/outlines/dotted line ...

really easy & fast … when done frequently …

diff. story for moving images… have a look at the 'depository' of free plugins at fcp.co, where, aside many others, I publish my free stuff (lots of football 😉)

There you go: three wildly different opinions and a recipe that involves time, patience, experience, external applications, press and filters (but they are, mostly, free).

If I have just learned how to prepare macaroni and cheese by removing the seal from a styrofoam bowl and putting it in a microwave, I may or may not be ready for soufflé or sushi rice.

David Bogie Chq-1 wrote:

…a recipe that involves time, patience, experience, external applications, press and filters (but they are, mostly, free). …

… hahaha, excellent, but, David, doesn't (or shouldn't) all our work demand time, patience and experience?

not to forget passion, excitement, joy - when accomplished 😉

(ok, some of my projects in review … lil' joy … LOL)

and it's really easy …

David Bogie Chq-1 wrote:

…

If I have just learned how to prepare macaroni and cheese by removing the seal from a styrofoam bowl and putting it in a microwave, …

eeks!! cooking is my other hobby, so MacCheese, freshly cooked, in seven easy steps:

…

<kiddin'>

😝😝😝

You're one of the bright spots around here, Karsten. I learn something new from you everyday.