Article Focus: Final Cut Pro has a lot of great filters, and Creative Cow leader Shane Ross found a number of them that he thought would look great as transitions. It turns out that really do! In this video tutorial, he shows you just how easily you too can build truly unique transitions with filters..
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Build Unique Transitions with Filters in Final Cut Pro
If you have FCP 5.1, it comes with a package of FXPlug plugins called the MOTION INCENTIVES. You get this when you register your copy of Motion. With FCP 6, this comes standard. It is unavailable on previous versions.
Build Unique Transitions with Filters in Final Cut Pro
Thanks Shane, I found the quality pretty good..;-) sorry I meant the one before the light rays effect.. the effect is still on the final cut project and then you go into the light rays.. I have been seeing this dazzle effect on peoples work, motion 2 does have it but its not as good.. maybe its in motion 3??
Build Unique Transitions with Filters in Final Cut Pro
Mark....that is LIGHT RAYS...the transition that I mention at the beginning. It just plays back super quick, as it is a 20 frame dissolve...and of course the low quality playback of the tutorial doesn't help.
Build Unique Transitions with Filters in Final Cut Pro
Shane, brilliant thanks very much.. i will use this allot ;-) i have to ask.. as i have been scratching my head for a while with this one.. How did you do the last transition Dazzle effect?, its the last transition.. before you end..
Build Unique Transitions with Filters in Final Cut Pro
I LOVE it when I'm validated! I was looking to do this very effect for a project last year, and I did it in exactly the way Shane Ross did it! He did it a lot faster than I did, and I learned a couple of short cuts, but the overall workflow was the same. Mine was used as part of an introductory sequence, a title area montage, and it looked awesome.
Build Unique Transitions with Filters in Final Cut Pro
Brilliant! I used this technique - sort of, that is. I just keyframed the lowest line in the Motion tab, the Mix, from 0 to 100 and then from 100 to 0 again. It would probably take me another couple of years to figure out that all the remaining parameters could be keyframed, too. Thank you Shane.