Final Cut Pro HD | H•O•T Hands-On Training [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

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Open Chapter 10 Lesson, if it isn't already open. Double-click Seq Wireframe to load it into the Timeline.

(You can use these techniques anywhere in the clip. However, if you want your screens to match mine, put your playhead on the marker contained in this sequence.)

Chapter 1, "Get Organized."

There are two tools in the Tool palette that can help modify the shape of an image: Crop and Distort.

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Press C to select the Crop tool, then click a corner and drag to crop two sides of an image.

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Undo, as usual, then press D to select the Distort tool. (I don't use this tool very often, but it creates a way cool effect when I do.)

The Distort tool allows you to put a forced perspective into your video, as though it was projecting on the side of a building, viewed from the side.

Using this tool, you can precisely control where each corner of your video is located, in a process called corner pinning. Or just alter the overall shape of your clip. It is easier to see than to explain.

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Be sure the video clip is selected, then, in the Canvas, grab the bottom-left corner with the Distort tool and drag. See how the corner moves, distorting the rest of your clip? Undo that, then hold the Shift key and drag a corner again. See how the whole clip develops a forced perspective?

One last thing. Sometimes, an effect just isn't working and you want to reset everything back to the beginning. Here's a fast way to do it:

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Double-click the clip to load it into the Viewer. Choose the Motion tab. Then, click the small, red, circled X for the parameter you want to reset. To reset all effects, click each of the seven circled Xs in the Motion tab.

The red X is the Reset button. You will find it in all filters, motion effects, transitions, and audio waveforms in the Viewer, and wherever other fine visual effects are sold.

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That's it for this exercise. In most exercises, I use numbers in the Motion tab so it's easier for your work to match mine. However, many times in real life, clicking and dragging a Wireframe is faster and works just as well. And now you know how to do it.

You're done with this exercise. Don't save your work. Quit Final Cut if you need to take a break. Otherwise, in the next exercise, you are going to make images fly.

NOTE | Fit to Window Menu

As you noticed, the Fit to Window menu allows you to zoom in or out on an image. You can also zoom using the Zoom tool (press Z). Keep in mind, however, that if you zoom in on an image, Final Cut will no longer display it in your external NTSC monitor.

So, if your external (meaning not your computer) monitor suddenly goes black, it's because you are zoomed in too far on an image in either the Canvas or Viewer.

To fix this, and get your image back, use one of these three steps:

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