[centerchannel68]

http://forums.macnn.com/82/applicati...iting-maybe-i/

Sorry for the double post here, but that other forum receives total dick for traffic. Can someone suggest a solution? It's due this week!

[brassplayersrock²]

seems as if the answer given was not one you liked?

Originally Posted by alligator 

You could combine individual frames in Photoshop, but I doubt you can layer video very easily. Probably the only software that could do this, if it exists, would be Final Cut Pro.

alligator nailed it on the head


alex

[centerchannel68]

Yes, I have final cut pro....but how do I layer frames on top of each other, like a time lapse thing but showing all the frames? Basically, I have a white cage.... with a bug in it. If the bug moves around, it should create sort of a 'line'. If it moves even more, it should create a crazy mess of a trail of where it's been, and eventually it would cover up all the white. What plugin/technique would I use to accomplish this?

[awaspaas]

That seems like something more suited to Motion or After Effects than Final Cut Pro, but I'm no expert on any of the above.

[centerchannel68]

Okay... come on. Tons of people here video edit!

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by centerchannel68 

http://forums.macnn.com/82/applicati...iting-maybe-i/

Sorry for the double post here, but that other forum receives total dick for traffic. Can someone suggest a solution? It's due this week!

I think you should practice using something more family friendly when expressing that you have very little traffic. Richards everywhere will thank you.

[OwlBoy]

How much video editing do you do that you bought Final Cut Pro?

-Owl

[centerchannel68]

Lots. When I have video editing classes. This semester I've done zero.

[Uncle Skeleton]

You're a difficult man to help rob. You give absolutely no feedback on perfectly good suggestions, no indication that you've tried to figure any of it out yourself or attempt to use those suggestions, then go off like "come on, anyone?" as if no one had tried to answer you already. It doesn't surprise me that people aren't falling all over themselves to be treated like that.

[centerchannel68]

I just need to know how to compile frames. Surely Final Cut can do this, apart from exporting each frame and layering them individually in photoshop. I just need to know how, and somebody around here HAS to know! Exporting each frame and opening them all up in photoshop would take FOREVER. I just used that as an example, but there has to be a better easier way to do something like this.

[brassplayersrock²]

you better get started then

alex

[Uncle Skeleton]

Originally Posted by centerchannel68 

and somebody around here HAS to know!

Why? You're not talking about a standard video edit here. How many times do you think this has been done before, in the history of FCP? And of that number, how many are here reading your threads on MacNN, and how many of those scarce few would respond positively to your "just give it to me now and stop whining" attitude? After all, you yourself have edited "lots" of video, and you don't have a clue where to find this feature...

I'm sure you already know this, but I'm also sure you need a reminder:

Nerds help those that help themselves. They don't like to be taken for granted. In the future, if you just add at the beginning or end of your post that you tried searching through the forum and with google, but couldn't find anything (even if you didn't because you're lazy), people with the answers will be much happier about helping you.

I don't know the answer to your question, but if I did, I'd feel a lot less reluctant to tell it to you if you gave any indication of willingness to do some of the work yourself instead of complaining that no one will do your own job for you for free out of the goodness of their hearts. This human-nature feeling is not just out of spite (though I don't deny that spiteful posters inspire the same in me), it's because dropping a tip to the right method is a far cry from the prospect of having to guide you step by step through each click like a petulant child.

Exporting each frame and opening them all up in photoshop would take FOREVER.

"Would" take? You didn't even try it?


edit: your title sucks too.

[centerchannel68]

No, I'm still importing footage. And you wouldn't need to guide me step by step, but googling for 'final cut plugin' or 'imovie plugin' or 'layer video' returns absolutely worthless results.

[brassplayersrock²]

so, uhh, robert, how is that project working out ?

[awaspaas]

"Boolean and Image Math layer operations" and "Multi-input layer node with blend modes" are features of Shake. You need some sort of compositing software to do that, it's not a Final Cut Pro feature.

[centerchannel68]

I found a plugin called 'motion tracking' for iMovie....but..... not sure if that's going to work, unless I can really speed it up. We'll see. I'm still searching.