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

1.

If Final Cut is not running, start it and open Chapter 11 Lesson. Double-click Seq Video Nest to load it into the Timeline. This is the open you created in Exercise 2.

What you need to do is apply a widescreen filter to all these clips to make this look as though it were shot 16:9, instead of 4:3. To do this, you need to create a nest. A nest is exactly the same as a sequence, except instead of editing the clips to it, as you would do normally, you create the sequence after all the clips have been edited.

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2.

Select all the clips in the sequence by choosing Edit > Select All (or press Cmd+A).

3.

Choose Sequence > Nest Items (or press Option+C).

4.

Change the name of the suggested nest to " Seq Source Clips". Remember to use a leading space so all your sequences sort to the top of the Browser. Click OK to create the new nest.

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Notice that all your clips have coalesced into a single, new "master clip," called a nest, while in the Browser, a new sequence has appeared, called Seq Source Clips. The master clip is the nest, and Seq Source Clips contains all your original clipsintact and available for editing.

5.

Select the nest and choose Effects > Video Filters > Matte > Widescreen.

This cuts off the top and bottom of the frame to make your images have a widescreen look. However, this isn't a true 16:9 aspect ratio. You need to change the filter settings to get the proportions right.

6.

Double-click the nest to load it into the Viewer.

Oops, that didn't work. Normally, you double-click a clip to load it into the Viewer, But nests are different. Double-clicking a nest opens up the nest so you can see, and edit, the individual clips it contains.

Notice at the top of the Timeline there are now two tabs: one containing the original clips (Seq Source Clips) and one that contains the nest itself (Seq Video Nest). Click the Seq Video Nest tab to get back to the nest.

7.

This time, highlight the nest and Option+double-click (or press Return) to load the nest into the Viewer. Click the Filters tab, and choose 1.78:1 (which is the correct aspect ratio for 16:9 video) from the Widescreen pop-up menu.

8.

Play your nest. Given all the effects you are using, you will need to render this before playing it.

The 16:9 filter has been applied to all the clips in the nest. Granted, now that you've changed the aspect ratio, you'll need to change the position of the clips, but that's easy to do.

9.

To edit any clip in a sequence, double-click the sequence to open the nest. All your original clips are here, ready for you to edit. Best of all, any changes you make to the clips inside a nest are automatically reflected back to the nest itself.

In this case, you won't make any changes. However, it's nice to know you can. (Oh, OK, make some changes and see what happens.)

Nests are very useful when you want to apply a filter, or motion effect, to a group of clips.

10.

That's it for this exercise. Save your work, if you feel so inclined. After a brief discussion of color space, you are going to take a detailed look at a series of specialized filters that all relate to color and keying. Quit Final Cut now, if you need to take a break.

NOTE | Deconstructing a Nest

Although nests are very useful, sometimes you may need to tear them apart and work with the original clips.

You can do this using copy-and-paste, but here's a much cooler, though little known, method:

Remember, don't press the Command key until after you start dragging.