Welcome back to Macbreak studio I'm Mark - I'm here with Steve in our beautiful
new little location we've been shooting in, and today Steve's gonna talk to us
about one of our great plugins. Actually it's not one of our plugins, it's somebody
else's plugin. Well it's funny because I did a video - I recorded a video at the
Final Cut Pro Creative User Group two years ago on plugins - that thing has
had almost a hundred ninety thousand views! And so, people are obviously
interested in plugins. So, I thought, well in that vein, why don't we show some plugins
and there's a lot of them out there (there are) and one particular plug-in
from a company - Industrial effects - run by Peter Wiggins - you know, FCP.co - this guy's a
full-time editor - I don't know where he has the time actually make plugins
And run the FCP.co site Yeah I'm sure he's... you know, a busy man
So... I'm gonna show one of his plugins that I actually like quite a bit
it's called a Xeffects glass slideshow so if you ever need to do a
slideshow, there's some beautiful glassy effects. Let me just show you
an example. So here's a shot of a turtle that my friend Abba Shapiro
took, and there's a nice glassy effect with a nice glassy transition and it's
just really really elegant looking slideshow.. (I agree). Ok, so that's
where we're going so let's take a look at the start place - okay so - there's
a couple things about this - (it's just two photos)
just two stills okay - I should point out that the plugin exists in like three
places in Final Cut Pro (I'm sorry, this is installed through FxFactory?)
That's right, you have to install the plugin through FXfactory but in Final Cut Pro
there's three principal items that you apply to create this: You apply an effect
a transition and a title. (so you have to go to separate browsers) - separate
browsers, right. So under effects (I'll scroll down here) there it is - there's the
slideshow portion that creates the actual move...
there's the transition component - this allows you to do the
glassy transitions from one to the other and then under titles and generators you
have the actual glassy effects that you place as titles over the top....
...including titles - so there's some titles as well - So there's quite a
bit going on. So now we know where everything is, let's look at how
you set this up. The first thing you want to do is - you're gonna want to change the
scale of these clips make them a little bigger because remember, when you're
using these effects they move and you can go beyond
the edge and you'll the edge will start showing - so what you're gonna
want to do - you're gonna have to scale them up a bit so I'm gonna select
these and under transform > scale... actually... you'll notice it's already set for 120
but now it's a hundred - but I set these at about 120 - just a little bit
obviously you're working with high resolution photos that have more
resolution than your project - right. The other thing that Peter recommends is
that you turn these into compound clips so you're working with a container that
contains the clips rather than the clips themselves. Okay, I'm going to press
option G - and compound clip that one - select that one - option G - compound clip that one -
so I have these two compound clips that have been scaled inside at
120 percent. Okay now let's apply the moves. So, I'm gonna move left drag that
there - do a move right by the way, there's 1080 and 4k versions.... so now I might
play this.... turtle moves left... sponge moves right... now if you want to change the
speed (it's very slow) but you need to understand
that to go left it's negative numbers to go right it's positive - so if you want to
speed it up you're going to go negative in this direction... So now
it's faster... and so you can keep you can keep cranking these up to make it faster
and faster but keep in mind, you start seeing the edge, so it's a
trade-off between the scale and then how fast you want it...
You're gonna have to play with it until you
get it the way you want it...In fact.. I'll speed this one up just
little bit.... just not too much and there you go...
Now that'll work. that's good for now. all right, so
we're set up for the moves now let's go ahead and add the glassy effects. So over
here to the browser (I'm gonna go ahead and close the inspector for now) so you
can see - I'm gonna skim over over some of these you have the large strips, you have
growing strips, medium strips, small strips... so I'm gonna go ahead and use one
of these strips here - I'm gonna press X to set a range - that large strip
there - and press Q and let's see how this looks...so I have this strip that grows
across the clip. This large strip grows...let's also add
a medium strip grow - (so you can have multiple title effects) yeah!
so now I'm adding a medium and a large strip grow - and they're
kind of like on top of each other. So what I'm gonna do is select this top one
here - and in the inspector, there's a lot of controls for these in the title inspector.
For example, I can change the direction... I want that one to go left to
right so they cross each other (nice yeah)
So they're crossing each other and there's some other controls
and you can change the edge width, the edge color.
You can play with a look of these, but I actually like
the way these look out of the box. Honestly, I think they look really really
elegant... So I can do the same here but just to make this easy on myself
I'm gonna copy those and I'm gonna paste them over the next clip. That way I'm not
having to- I mean, I could say you know- just so I have some reverse polarity.
I'll select this one, and I'll just I'll do this one right to left. And this
one, left to right. So now we're now we don't have the exact same effect
on both clips and then it's it's a nice looking thing. Okay, now but
we need a transition here, but in order to do that you're going to need a
compound clip. So I'm gonna select that, Option-G. Make a compound
clip out of that. Just like that, Option-G to make a compound clip out of that.
And now I have two compound clips, and I would like to put a
transition there, but as you all well know: those who use Final Cut,
there's no handles, and in the last episode or one of the episodes, I showed you
the versatile range tool. So select the range and delete. So I've just
created some handles. Now I'm going to go back to the transition
browser. You'll see that there are a bunch of transitions in here. There's a
large grow, and I kind of stick with the same- that's kind of cool too.
I'll just try that. So throw that transition on there.
And now I have a glassy transition, that kind of ties these two together.
Isn't that nice? (Yeah... it's clean, elegant, professional. I love it.)
Yeah, so there's one other thing I might want to do. You can go further
with this. That's what's really great, you keep stacking things.
For example, if I go back to X effects, I can continue adding additional options
on top. So let's go down here, so I could put more titles even on
top of this. So I'm stacking even more on top. See? You can get really crazy
And it can go running right across the transition,
and this is where I think the titles come in. The titles are really great.
So I got these titles, I'll put in here. I'm going to
drop that in there. I'm gonna split that title. And so I have this title now,
that comes on. Notice it animates on, and I have on-screen controls. I can put that
where I want. I'll go ahead and type this in... Turtle.
That's what it is.
Go the next on... St. Croix.
Alright. So I have a title now that comes in
and I can move it where I want. There's some options in the title
inspector, I can change the direction: right-left. I can change the
color scheme. I can go in and change things like the line color. So I have
all the you have all this control of the title. And right now it's not being
affected by those glass things, but if you put it inside the compound clip then
it would be. Now Peter, I think on FX factory has a demo,
where they put them inside the compound, and they time it with the
glass... I didn't want to do that. I just wanted to put the title on top.
The point is, you can put them wherever you want. So I got this turtle and
I could then copy this over here. Okay so here's my...
change this to sponge...
Spongebob.
Alright, good. So again, there's a spongebob coming in.
Of course now I want to move them over
a little bit. And so now I look you can see
within a few minutes I can create a pretty elegant slideshow,
with titles. And it's interesting because, with some of these plugins
there's more involvement than, drop it on. But you end up with something that's
more customized, and much better looking than something that you just drop
on and you're done. It just takes a little bit of work with a compound clips,
and going into the different browsers. You can really create something very
beautiful without any key framing at all, and not knowing any sort of motion
graphics. Well that's what's great, is there are no keyframes. You just move it,
and it's very very intuitive. The thing that's (if you're new) you're gonna
have to get used to this idea of compound clipping.
There's lot of compound clipping.
Yes, and it's throwing- Every time you create a
compound clip, it's creating a copy in the browser, which will be confusing for
some people. Because 'what are all these things doing there' but you can just kind
of ignore them, because you're just working in the timeline.
You could, although, you'll notice,
I made a smart collection of just all my compound
clips. And you could see I have quite a few of them in there.
Very interesting, great plug-in. Peter, great job.
And thanks for showing us how to do that.
I hope you guys enjoyed that.
See you next time on Macbreak Studio.