Apple Final Cut Pro 6 Tutorials
Time Saving Techniques / Using Superimpose
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In this module we'll talk about the superimposed edit and this is another timesaving technique that you can use in a lot of different applications. What I'll show you first doesn't have that many practical applications, although it can be used to kind of preview two different options you have for the same duration of a shot and I'll show you exactly what that means here. Let's say that I have a sequence and I'm going from this shot to this shot and I have this shot in between and I like the timing of that shot just fine and I just want to test out a couple different things. I have this as a possible bridge and I have this one as a possible bridge that I pulled up in the view. Now the only thing that's important in the viewer is that you mark an in point or an outpoint if you want to back time it. So I'll clear the out although again it really wouldn't matter, because when I superimpose I'm going to superimpose a clip over the length of this clip, it's going to be the exact same length and all I have to do is have the play heads set in the timeline on the clip I'm going to superimpose over. So click and drag and let's see what happens. Now you have this alternate shot that goes on its separate video track with the audio also, both channels of audio that have also been added to my sequence. Now I can play the two things together, so I'm seeing the top video track as you probably would expect but I'm hearing all four audio tracks. So I can do that, I can preview what shot I like better by muting out the audio of one and then the other and just again deciding which one I like. Now, later but I keep the timing the same. Let's undo a couple of these actions here and go back and show you the more practical purpose for this and that is to add text. So in this textbox here I'm going to bring up lower third text and I'm going to text later on and the full use of this little button and the different options that you can get to from here. But for now again, it's a handy way, let's say I want to say you know this is the pool or whatever type of information I want in this text I can quickly superimpose it over this entire shot by clicking and dragging and letting go over superimpose. Now I get that sample text, you know this is a hot day, maybe this is your credits, who knows, but it was superimposed over the picture as you can see. You can also use this in conjunction with an in and out point to time this out more precisely, if you just went over the first half of a shot or a couple seconds of a shot, again you can use three point editing. You can set an in point here, let me select the timeline and move the play head to the beginning of the shot, we'll set an in point, we'll just go a little bit further on, we'll set an out and now with the in and out set I can again superimpose and now the text is over the beginning of this shot but it won't appear over the tail end of this shot. So that's how you use superimpose and it's a very quick way to be very precise when you're bringing something on a second video track as you've seen here.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple Final Cut Pro 6 |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33865 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-62-3 |
| Release Date: | 2008-03-31 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 103 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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