I am trying to put video inside of shapes in Final Cut Pro X like displayed in this video: aeth - LAPSANG / SOUCHONG (Official Music Video) - YouTube
I can only find tutorials of video inside of text. Is there anyone that can help me?
MacBook Pro with Retina display
This might help:
http://sight-creations.com/fxexchange/Cutouts.zip
It's an "effect" — apply it to a clip. Combine your shape generators in a stack and create a compound clip (make sure the length of the shape generators is as long as your cut needs to be!)
Click on the Drop Zone for this effect and choose a first frame (an "early enough" frame) of your shapes compound.
The default blend mode is set to Stencil Alpha (similar to luma - but guaranteed "opaque" cutouts with shapes). Try the other blend modes - you get some interesting effects and you can "double exposure" clips with it (overlay, hard light, color burn, etc.)
Stacked shapes generator:
the compound clip:
All your collected shapes in "one throw":
The drop zone also gives you scale and pan controls to help you resize and align the parts.
If you need help installing:
I still don't understand unfortunately!
So how would you do this if you wanted six shapes on the screen? Or if you wanted one shape with a black outline, video in the middle and white on the background?
You aren’t combining each shape with its underlying video into a compound clip.
Even when I combine both shapes into a compound clip they both disappear? Likewise when I combine both shapes and the clip together.
And how about more complex thing like so?
And how would you make the other shape block colours and the background a different block colour too?
I still can't work out how to do this on Pixelmator.
I am stuck at the second step. I have inserted a black square. I have command-clicked the shape in the layers list but only selects the shape as shown below. What am I doing wrong?
What version of Pixelmator are you using? I do not recognize the panel on the right. Is this Pixelmator Pro?
I am using 3.7.5 (non-pro version).
Yes I have the pro version, maybe thats why.
Could you explain what I mean so I can try and implement it on the Pro version?
There are two things you want to do, and they are not particularly difficult:
1) You want to square to be stroked but not filled. In the version I have I just select the shape layer and I can control both the Stroke and Fill very easily. I am sure you can find similar controls in the pro version.
2) You want to "cut a hole" in the background so that the whole image becomes transparent inside the square (otherwise you'd see the background color inside the square).
This is where there appears to be a difficulty, but not an unsurmountable one :-)
Just select the background layer, pick the rectangular selection tool and drag. You don't have to be extremely precise, just so long as you don't select outside the area of the square. Then just press Delete. The selected area will be deleted from the background (but not from the square above it).
(Relatively) Easy. Create the image and make transparent the part where you want the video to "see through".
How do you put video inside of shapes on Final Cut Pro X.
