View Full Version : Doodling in FCP


Marcello Mongardi
December 7th, 2003, 07:40 AM
I am running FCP 1, and want to doodle on certain frames of a scene. A sort of music video effect, if you will. How do i do it? IS it possible?
Thanks.

Ken Tanaka
December 7th, 2003, 12:14 PM
If, by "doodle", you mean draw on the frames, the answer is no. FCP is not the tool for this job. Look at After Effects or Commotion for such a facility.

Glenn Chan
December 7th, 2003, 02:36 PM
If you don't have that many frames to doodle on you can export an image sequence and work on the image files generated with a program like Photoshop.

Sharon Fraats
December 8th, 2003, 07:34 PM
Could you not also import them in layers from PhotoShop and then use the layers?

Mike Butler
December 15th, 2003, 03:00 PM
Oh, definitely. That's one of the beauty things about FCP. You import the PSD and it is brought in with each layer as a video track. This way we can fade elements (layers) in and out at differing times, etc.; move them around, all kinds of things.