Thanks man.
Both editors work for a major Japanese company that seems to shy away from Apple software in general. I don't understand but I feel better hearing your side as well.
FCPX is not very popular around Tokyo . . .
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Endless thanks BenB. This is invaluable information.
I'm off to purchase the Motion Ripple tutorials now.
Very excited!

Anymore help always welcome.
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I'm new here and to FCP as well.
This place looks awesome and I hope to contribute as well as learn.

I've been attempting a stained glass like video collage effect using FCP.
If you can imagine something like this:

mirakkulglassware.com/blog/wp-content/up...3/Stained-glass2.jpg

with various video clips representing each shape.
To make it even more challenging I'm imagining each shape moving around in a blob-like fashion.

To keep my question simple - is there anyway to create something similar to this in FPC?



Animating the shapes of various video clips like that.

If so - how?
I don't know how easy or difficult it could be.

Would Motion be useful in doing something like this?

I found a great plug-in for molding shapes out of clips here:
alex4d.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/mask-plus-fcpx-effects/

I spent some money and bought FCPX with Motion. Teaching myself the programs and figuring out my system of approaching these things is exciting but this kind of non-linear animated collage idea has stumped me.

Any words of wisdom or direction pointing would be much loved . . .

Thanks.
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