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Advice for Fast Motion Graphics Comping in FCP
Hi,
I’m looking for advice on the best way to set-up FCP in order to do fast motion graphics comps.
I work primarily on 2-minute and half-hour DRTV projects (infomercials) and begin by having my clients provide me a low-res graphicless version of their edited project. I’d like to know the best settings to use in FCP to be able to work quickly with a minimum amount of render time. I’d like to set-up the project in FCP and create graphic elements in Motion, and drop them into my FCP sequence. For this first draft I don’t mind working in a lower resolution (like half of full-resolution) as it keeps file sizes reasonable for the internet. My primary goal for a first-draft is to work quickly, and do as much work as possible in real-time.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
–Mark
Mark Laskowski http://www.laskowskiDesign.com
Main Hardware:
24″ iMac (2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme, 2GB, 500GB HD, ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory)Main Software:
Final Cut Studio 2 (FCP 6, Motion 3) -
1 Reply
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FCP works best in DV resolution. 720×576 in PAL.
Very good performance, you wont get it to render much faster if you go to a lower res.
If you need a small version for the web, export your timeline to a quicktime movie and send it to compressor. There you can reduce size for distribution.
Unfortunately Motion renders slowly, there’s no way around that.
Regards
francois
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