New but hey – this software needs some tweaks

[Stephen Smith]

[John] I had 30 odd templated graphics to do that began life in the wrong format (16×9 HD) and wrong frame rate.

Create a new project with the proper size and frame rate. Open the project with the wrong frame rate and size, open up the Project Pane or Timeline, drag it’s canvas to the right. Select your content and drag it over to the new project with the proper settings. You may have to adjust the scale of the Main group to get it to fit the right canvas size depending on how drastically different the to projects are.

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[John Mitchell]

Thanks for ths Stephen – I will give it a go. Wish I had two monitors for this…(most of my systems have two but the Mac only has one.)

As I have many more of these projects being able to adjust the template will be a big help. Still think it is a copnvoluted way of doing things that should be as simple as accessing the project preferences…

BTW – any tips on batch rendering? My experience with Motion project files interacting with Compressor was not good.

[Stephen Smith]

John,
Motion, just like Final Cut Pro can’t change the frame rate once you start working with media. However, you can bring in a clip shot at any frame rate. Hence the solution your not to happy with. As for doing a Batch Export I think the only way is to do it in Compressor. If you dislike Compressor you could always import each project into different FCP sequences and do a Batch Export out of FCP. Hope this helps.

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[John Mitchell]

Thanks again Stephen.

I like Compressor 🙂 I just don’t like the fact that my Motion projects kept crashing it! (Quartz plug in I think)

And I’m not unhappy with the solution (I’m actually glad for any solution) – so thankyou.

Probably at the heart of all these problems is Quicktime – which I guess is being used as the interpreter for the Motion project within Compressor.

Perhaops if someone went through my workflow and told me why I was crashing and a way around it it might help…

My workflow was to drag the 35 motion projects into Compressor. I then highlighted all the individual source files and went to add a destination – this crashed Compressor after about 2 – 3 minutes. So I tried adding a custom preset to every file – XDCAM, native to the original Motion file for frame rate and raster. That crashed Compressor. So eventually I had to add a destination and preset individually to each source file. This took a while because everytime I highlighted a source file or dragged anything to it there was a noticeable delay. I saved each time and eventually got there with only one more crash.

Is there a better way and can anyone explain why it kept crashing with multiple projects?

This is the workflow I’d like to adopt to batch out Motion projects…

[David Bogie]

[John Mitchell] “Probably at the heart of all these problems is Quicktime “

That MUST be it.

bogiesan

[Torben Suhrke]

Hey John,

maybe this tip helps:
You’re right Compressor gets really unresponsive when you add so many projects to a batch.
So it’s best not to change anything once you dropped your files into Compressor. You can achieve this by editing your desired preset and a destination setting beforehand. Then go to preferences and set your preset and destination you just set up to be the defaults. If you then drop your files they already have the right preset and destination.

It might also help to close the preview window before dropping the files, as it eats up some resources, too.

Best regards,
Torben