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Final Cut Pro help

RohanRohan Registered User regular
edited May 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm having trouble adding a background image with my project in Final Cut Pro. I have two video channels operating with a fairly large number of chopped up sequences. I've added anther channel solely for the image. It's a black image with a logo near the top. I can't find anywhere to add it as a long video track so that it stays for a certain duration. Adding it in again and again is acceptable, but hardly ideal.

This studio piece has to be in for today... someone help if they can, please. The studio sequences, which are the ones which need the background image, were shot against a green screen.

...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.

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  • ZifnabZifnab Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I don't have the software in front of me right now, but you should be able to add it as a video track, then drag the length out until it covers the duration that you need. Barring that, try double-clicking on the image in the timeline, then using the properties section of the viewer to change the length. If neither of those work, let me know and I'll check it out, but I can't get near the software until about 11-11:30 EST.

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  • RohanRohan Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Sorry, it's not the adding the image that's the problem, it's trying to get it to blend into the background that was confusing me. There are two camera positions, and I had to be able to move the logo in the background image every second track (swapping back and forth between camera positions) without the logo looking like it's moving around. But it had to move around, or it would be hitting the actors. I managed to get it in the end, but due to some terrible lighting thanks to my lecturer, it ended up looking like poo.

    Poo.

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    ...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.

    Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
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