Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"Cloning" project cheat sheet


Trimming footage - open the layer with the footage you want to trim, bring your cursor to beginning or ending of the clip, then clip and drag in to shorten the clip.

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Or: trim it in the footage viewer. That is to say, bring the footage into a new layer, then doubleclick the layer to see the footage view. Once you see it there, you can select in and out points for that instance of the footage.

Creating the masks - use the pen tool. Once you've created a mask, you can access parameters of the mask by opening the layer. "Mask Feather" is one of the options. (there are also various layer blending modes in the mask layer).

Adding keyframes: select the stopwatch, move the playhead, then hit the keyframe control at the far left of your layer.

If you want to move one vertex of a mask, rather than the whole mask, click on the mask - then click off it, and return to the mask, clicking the specific vertex you want to click.

Stepping ahead one frame. Page up/down (fn key plus arrow key if your keyboard doesn't have "page up" and "page down")

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