[Adam Mercado]

I am on a Mac, i just checked for updates and lo and behold, every CS3 app had some kind of update. Not sure why Updater had not notified me of this. Crazy.

Thanks much for the tip!
mm66

Adam Mercado
Influxx Media Production
Motion Graphics & Video Post Production
Fullerton, CA

[Adam Mercado]

yeah i figured as much. Man thats a $1200 codec for anyone cutting on Premier or Avid. Whats the workflow for cutting DVCProHD on those systems? Seems like a totally lame PITA to me

cheers
mm66

Adam Mercado
Influxx Media Production
Motion Graphics & Video Post Production
Fullerton, CA

[Adam Mercado]

well thanks for the link, however little it answered this specific question

Adam Mercado
Influxx Media Production
Motion Graphics & Video Post Production
Fullerton, CA

[Adam Mercado]

Well i played around with the CC setting a bit and found a way to minimise the clipping. So the bug I obviously with the user (me).

But what I want to know now is how to understand whay is going on. What aspect of the CC is causing the clipping

Any thoughts or links would appreciated

cheers
mm66

Adam Mercado
Influxx Media Production
Motion Graphics & Video Post Production
Fullerton, CA

[Adam Mercado]

Okay, I figured it out. I can’t believe I never came across this before.

RSMB cannot effect any layer with another effect on it. Either as an adjustment layer on layers with effects on, or on an individual layer with other effects applied. Placing RSMB as the first effect on an individual layer solved it.

Hope this helps somebody else in the future.

adam

Adam Mercado
Influxx Media Production
Motion Graphics & Video Post Production
Fullerton, CA

[Adam Mercado]

Adam Mercado
Influxx Media Production
Motion Graphics & Video Post Production
Fullerton, CA

[Adam Mercado]

first, transComplete is a variable. A variable (or var) is a bucket for holding data. In this case it is looking at the current value of the Expression Slider (which itself is animated at default over 2 secs 0-100). So at 1 sec the value of transComplete = 50.

With me so far.

Then, the ease function is called which tweens from one value to another over time with an ease value (I’m guessing as it is the default for keyframe assistant) of 33%.

easeIn(transComplete, 33, 100, 5, 0)
In this case the transComplete var is being passed to the value parameter. The x jitter property is being tweend from 0 to 5 between 33 and 100 of the value, in this case the var associated with the Exp. Slider. Whilst the value is less than 33, there is no tweening, it is static. Once the value goes over 33 the tween begins, and is updated every frame until the value equals 100, at which point x jitter should be 0.

Hope that helps, look at page 551 of the CS3 manual for details
mm66

Adam Mercado
Influxx Media Production
Motion Graphics & Video Post Production
Fullerton, CA

[Adam Mercado]

Dave and Kevin, thanks for the tip. I agree, I was trying to avoid interlace for a number of reasons. The final deliverable is not known yet. It may be PC, DVD or some other device. I think the problem is that the labels are just too close to the camera. I dont have a lot of time to go back and re-animate these sections (there are 8 total) but I could take a look at the worst areas. I did render with some adjustments to the settings last night as an experiment. Tried putting motion blur back to 180, frame rate to 60, still progressive.

Lets see how that looks.

Thank you both for the comments
mm66

Adam Mercado
Influxx Media Production
Motion Graphics & Video Post Production
Fullerton, CA

[Adam Mercado]

Just to chime in on this thread as it is exactly the problem I am experiencing. Really need a solution as I am now at a roadblock.

I am working on a very basic cuts only DV NTSC project. Trying to render my selects sequence fails at about the 40% mark. That is at about 10min on a 30min timeline. The only rendering taking place is the audio track for some reason (the FCP sequence defaults audio tracks to 32bit despite me setting at 16bit????).

I have iStat open and the readings go thus, from beginning of render to moment of failure:

Memory
Wired: 160MB – 280MB
Active: 60MB – 84MB
Inactive: 1.5GB – 3.8GB
Free: 2.5GB – 0MB

So from that one can ascertain that FCP or the system is not releasing RAM after using it to render. The only way I can flush FCPs RAM allocation is to quit. AfterEffects has an option to flush cache after an amount of frames. Does FCP have any similar setting?

G5 Dual 2.5
FCP4.5
OSX10.4.11
4GB RAM
250GB internal sys/app drive
500GB FW800 media drive

FWIW, the media was captured using iMovie as FCP kept erroring trying to capture now. The tape had bogus timecode issues….

Thanks for ANY light you can shed. This really shouldn’t be this difficult.

mm66

Adam Mercado
Influxx Media Production
Motion Graphics & Video Post Production
Fullerton, CA

[Adam Mercado]

thanks guys, shoulda known to check motionscript first.

cheers
mm66

Adam Mercado
Influxx Media Production
Motion Graphics & Video Post Production
Fullerton, CA