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

1.

Open Chapter 09 Lesson 1. You'll find it inside the Lessons folder on the FCP HDHOT DVD included with this book. Double-click Seq Ready to Title to load it into the Timeline. It should have all the graphics you've created so far during this chapter. If not, open Seq LiveType.

2.

Twirl down the Graphics folder in the Browser and double-click Hurricane Title.lpr to load it into the Viewer. This is a LiveType project file.

With FCP HD, you no longer need to export your LiveType movie before bringing it into Final Cut. Now, all you need to do is create the LiveType project, save the project, and then import the project file into Final Cut. Final Cut does all the rendering inside itself.

This is much faster, and more flexible, as you will soon see.

Using LiveType, I've created an opening animation to go at the beginning of the Hurricane sequence.

3.

In the Timeline, select and delete the opening title clip you created in Exercise 1.

4.

Drag the Hurricane Title clip down from the Viewer and place it on V2 of the Timeline, to replace the clip you just deleted.

Put a 20-frame Cross Dissolve at the beginning and a 10-frame Cross Dissolve at the end. (A fast way to create the ending dissolve is to Option+drag it from the V3 clip to the end of the V2 clip, since both dissolves are the same length.)

5.

The red render bars at the top of the Timeline indicate that this title sequence, and the supers you put in immediately afterward, all need to render. Rendering means the computer is not fast enough to display them in real time, so it needs to calculate the effect before it plays it.

Deselect the Hurricane Title clip and choose Sequence > Render All (or press Cmd+R).

The render thermometer appears. Try to appear patient.

Ta-DA! Instant animated titles. (Well, virtually instant…)

But wait. Let's say you wanted to make a change to this LiveType file. Here's a really fast way to switch back and forth between Final Cut and LiveType to make changes to a file. (In fact, I used this a lot in creating this sequence.)

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6.

Choose Final Cut Pro HD> System Settings and click the External Editors tab. Click the Set button on the LiveType Movie Files line and, in the resulting dialog, navigate to the Applications folder and select the LiveType application. Click Choose.

7.

Now, go to the LiveType clip in the Timeline and Ctrl+click the clip and choose Open in Editor from the shortcut menu.

Final Cut automatically opens LiveType and loads this project file into it. Then, after you make changes and save the file (saving the file is important), Final Cut loads the revised clip back into the Timeline.

No more Media Offline messages. This is a really fast way to make changes to a LiveType clip. It's called round-tripping.

As you can also see in the External Editors tab screen shot above, I've also selected Adobe Photoshop for still image files and Bias Peak for audio files. I've found using external editors to be really, really helpful.

8.

That's it. This sequence is done! Save your work and show your friends. The last exercise will work with the Snowboard project. Quit Final Cut if you need to take a break.