I can't figure out how you'd do it if, for instance, you were looking at a mirror or TV screen from an angle.
That's where you'd want to use the Rotation, Center, and Anchor Point bits - although honestly, I tend to fudge it all and just work right in the Canvas window for the bulk of it.
If you look at the top of that window, there'll be a button that you can drop down to give you "Image & wireframes"; select that, and you'll get wireframes over your image. You can resize, rotate, or move from here.
Put your cursor in the clip you want to adjust. To resize, grab one of the points/dots on the corners or edges of the wireframes, and pull the clip in or out to the size you want. To rotate, click the edge of the wireframe; you'll get a curvy cursor, and at that point you can pull the clip to whatever angle you want. To move, click in the middle and drag it to where you want.
Once I have things more or less where I want them, I fine-tune using the Motion tab controls.
This looks like a decent overview of all of that, with more detailed directions at the top for actually working in the Motion tab (the "use the wireframes" bit is at the bottom, with a screenshot): http://archive.divergentshadows.com/dv/fcp/notes/motion.shtml
I can figure out how to do an "old film" effect (Effects, Video Filters, Stylize, Bad Film) but not how to do a sketchy look... or at least, I've played with a few options but none of them seem close to what I was thinking of.
Are you using FCE or FCP? FCE has more limited options.
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That's where you'd want to use the Rotation, Center, and Anchor Point bits - although honestly, I tend to fudge it all and just work right in the Canvas window for the bulk of it.
If you look at the top of that window, there'll be a button that you can drop down to give you "Image & wireframes"; select that, and you'll get wireframes over your image. You can resize, rotate, or move from here.
Put your cursor in the clip you want to adjust. To resize, grab one of the points/dots on the corners or edges of the wireframes, and pull the clip in or out to the size you want. To rotate, click the edge of the wireframe; you'll get a curvy cursor, and at that point you can pull the clip to whatever angle you want. To move, click in the middle and drag it to where you want.
Once I have things more or less where I want them, I fine-tune using the Motion tab controls.
This looks like a decent overview of all of that, with more detailed directions at the top for actually working in the Motion tab (the "use the wireframes" bit is at the bottom, with a screenshot): http://archive.divergentshadows.com/dv/fcp/notes/motion.shtml
I can figure out how to do an "old film" effect (Effects, Video Filters, Stylize, Bad Film) but not how to do a sketchy look... or at least, I've played with a few options but none of them seem close to what I was thinking of.
Are you using FCE or FCP? FCE has more limited options.