We’ve all seen this glowing lines effect
made famous by blotter media.
And there’s been plenty of tutorials
on how this can be done in Final Cut Pro
by using a dedicated plugin.
There’s a couple problems with this.
One, is these plugins can be expensive
and really bog down your computer.
And two, is you have to use a trackpad
or a mouse to make these animations,
which can be tricky, and take forever.
Today, I’m going to show you how you can do the exact same effect
much easier and faster,
and without having to buy a special plugin,
by using an iPad, an Apple pencil, and Procreate.
Hey guys, what’s up.
My name is Serge and welcome back to my channel.
Let’s jump into Final Cut Pro and get started.
First thing we need to do is select a range in our timeline
where we want to apply this effect.
Skim your timeline,
and with the skimmer a few frames before where you want this effect to start,
press M on your keyboard to add a marker.
Without moving the skimmer, press I to set an In point.
Move your skimmer to where you want this animation to end,
and press O to set the out point.
Selecting a range allows us to export just a specific part of our timeline,
instead of the entire project.
Hit the share button,
select your export preset,
and export the selected range from your timeline.
Air drop this exported file to your iPad.
Open up ProCreate,
and in the top right corner,
tap on Photo to go to open up your Photos library.
Select the clip you just exported from Final Cut Pro,
and click Use to import this video clip
as an image sequence into ProCreate.
Tap the brush selection tool,
and pick the type of brush to use for this effect.
The one I like to use is called LightPen,
and you can find it in the luminance category.
Select it, and tap on it one more time to open up brush preferences.
To make your strokes nice and smooth,
select Stabilization,
set the Stabilization amount to about 50,
and Motion Filtering to about 20.
Also, to make your strokes a consistent width,
select Apple Pencil,
and set the pressure size to 0.
Click done.
Select your brush color, and the size of your brush,
and tap on the first frame where you want to start your animation.
We now have to animate our clip frame by frame.
We’ll start out with just a couple lines at the bottom,
and make them move up.
Move to your next frame,
and re draw your lines from before,
and this time, extend them out a bit further.
Select the next frame, and extend your lines out even more.
We’ll keep going until our first animation is complete,
then reverse the order to animate our lines out.
And, because each frame will only be visible
for a fraction of a second in our finished video,
these lines don’t have to be perfect.
Honestly, if the placement changes slightly from frame to frame,
in my opinion, it just makes the finished result look better.
Let’s scroll back to the start of this sequence,
and tap play to see what this looks like.
Repeat these steps for the rest of your clip,
adding as few, or as many animations as you want.
Having to do this frame by frame does take time,
but trust me, this is way faster
than trying to do it using a mouse or a trackpad.
Once you’re done, go back to your gallery,
hit the share button,
and select either animated MP4 or Animates HEVC format
to export this as a video clip.
Select Max resolution to retain your video quality,
make sure the frame rate matches your original clip,
and hit the export button in the top right corner.
Air Drop this file back to your mac,
and import it into Final Cut Pro.
Add this clip above your timeline,
making sure to line up the start of this clip
with the marker you set earlier,
for this cool effect.
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