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Cloning moving subjects in Final Cut Pro X

Cloning moving subjects in Final Cut Pro X

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Cloning moving subjects in Final Cut Pro X

- In this movie, we're going to look at how to clone moving subjects in Final Cut Pro X. Alright, so if you're just joining me in this movie and didn't see the last one, we're working with a subject moving across the frame, either left to right or right to left. They can be walking, they can be dancing... So we're going to kind of fashion an army of walking Nates across the frame. If I go over to Premiere, we just did this and you can see the result here. And it is very important that you have a locked down frame for this to work. If you don't, you can see that even with a little bit of camera movement, we get this buckling and banding in the video. Alright? So a locked down frame is important; which we've got, and instead of using a wipe like we did in Premiere Pro, I'm going to use a mask. So I'm going to go over to my effect browser, and under mask, I'm going to choose draw mask. Ok? So now I need to draw this and I'm going to back out a little so that I can see the offscreen area.…

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