[anonymous.magi]

Hi All,

I'm just getting my feet wet with Final Cut Pro while trying to complete a project for school and have run into a couple problems. Any help is appreciated!

1) I have some still images that were taken in front of a green screen. I have done the color key thing to get rid of the green in the image, but that replaced the green with black. How do I now put in a different background instead of black?

2) I want to make a little badge counter overlay in the coner of my video that counts up as certain things happen in the video. (Think sort of like the red badge on the Mail.app icon in the dock that shows your number of new messages.) So I clicked on the little "A" icon in Final Cut, selected shapes, and made a red circle icon in the lower left corner of the video screen. It was my intent to put a text number over that red circle at various points in the video. But when I play the video instead of just getting the red circle I get a big black box over half the video screen that has the red circle in the corner. This seems to be part of creating the shape. How do I get just the shape? Or how do I make that black disappear and show the video underneath (like in the greenscreen question above).

Many thanks in advance for any suggestions. Thanks!

[sebrady]

1. put the clip on track 2. put another source under the clip on track 2......video or still. you should see the non green subject matter on track 2 superimposed over the clip on track 1. this is exactly how the weatherman does his job.

2. track 1 is your video. make a track 2 and put your little shape where you want it and the size and color you want. make a track 3. Drag a text clip onto track 3. place it and size it as you see fit. each clip will stay up as long as it is needed. you need to add another text clip for each event. they will all be butted up against each other, the text incrementing each time something in the video happens.

I hope this makes sense and helps. I could show you in 30 seconds if I were there, it really is very easy. you do need mutliple tracks though.