If you want your cube to change size as it moves, enter different numbers for scale. This will keep the size of the cube constant. Now move the playhead to the last keyframe, click on the keyframe to turn it red and enter the same scale information as set for the first key frame. As the size for X,Y and Z are locked together you only need to enter a number in the Scale X box. I have chosen Ease In/Out as this will give me Bezier handles on my motion path. In Controls window, (shown below), clicking on the interpolation box will produce a drop down menu. You can resize in the Composite window by dragging in on your image or in the Controls window. Click on the keyframe button under the playhead, it will turn red showing it's active. Make sure that your playhead is at the start of the TL. The first thing to do is resize the cube, which does not yet look like a cube. When you are done your TL will look like the one below. Go through all the remaining faces and map a still image to each face. When you set the Interpolation of Scale to Constant you will not be able to keyframe (change) the size of the cube. Click on the padlock, it will open and you can change the scale for X, Y or Z, changing the shape of your cube. In the Controls window, Position tab, set the Interpolation for scale X, Y, Z, to Constant, (Red arrows below). You can change the aspect of the cube by changing the scale of any of the sides of the cube. Graffiti will interpolate the rest of the images if their aspect ratio is different. It is the aspect ratio of the Front Face image that sets the aspect ratio for the cube. You will now notice that the still image that you have set for your Front Face track fills the Composite window, blocking out the background track. This will open a dialog box where you can navigate to your still image, click Choose. Choose Still Image file from the drop down menu. Clicking on the 'T', sets the Media type for that one track. Below, we are set to 'M' and you can see there is a separate Face track for each side of the cube. When in 'S' mode, one still image will be mapped to all six sides of the cube. 'M' is for multiple faces, if you click on the 'M' it will turn into a 'S' which is for single. If you will look to the top right you will see the letter 'M' (in Red circle below). This will produce a new track, 'Cube - Text', on the TL, shown below. The Cube shape will not yet show in the Composite window. This will produce a drop down menu, select Cube.
Click on the 'track Shape type' icon, (Red arrow below right). Click on the 'Add Vector Text' button, (below left). To the right of the arrow you can see your media type, a film strip. I like to click on the name of the first track and change it to read 'Background', (Green arrow). This will load the video or still image into the Composite window. A dialog box will open, navigate to the file you want for your background and click 'Open'.
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Next select 'Add Movie Media' or 'Add Image Media', depending on your choice of moving video or a still image for your background, (Red arrows below). Because FCP actually sets the duration of the Graffiti clip, we set the duration for the clip in Graffiti simply as a reference. Enter the time for this composite in the 'Duration' field, (Blue arrow below). You can have an empty TL each time you start Graffiti by going to Prefs > Interface tab and select 'Start with Empty Timeline'. Nice feature.įirst, in the Timeline, delete all existing tracks.
If you do change the duration of the clip, the keyframes in Graffiti will automatically redistribute themselves. Once inside FCP you can change the duration of the Graffiti clip in the usual manner. This duration is set in Prefs > General tab > 'Still/Freeze Duration'. It is FCP that sets the duration of the incoming Graffiti clip. Then click on the Import tab, Alpha Channel to 'Straight' and Aspect to Square Pixels.Īfter we finish building our clip in Graffiti we will use the Graffiti plugin to bring our Keyframer file into FCP. This will insure that your 720 x 480 still images will fit properly. Frames per second to 29.97 and Video Aspect to 'Square Pixels'.
Under the General tab, set Width and Height (for NTSC) to 720 x 480. There are two settings we need to adjust for using stills and later importing into FCP. Launch Graffiti Keyframer, close the Text box and open Preferences. I have received a number of e mails asking: 'How is this done?' So, here's how. The cube was superimposed over moving video as the cube moved across the screen. In the review I showed a screen shot of a spinning, tumbling and rotating cube that had six different still images mapped to each face of the cube. Last week I wrote a review of Graffiti 2 by Boris. Mapping still images to a spinning Cube over moving Video