[Alan Lacey]

Yea, I thought that as well when I was naive FCP user.

Seems you need a workaround. Open your tga sequence in QTpro and export a high quality (animation or uncompressed codec) QT mov – make sure you use ‘millions of colours+’ to keep your alpha then use that in FCP. Lame eh?

At least there’s no level change between your ani_0000.tga and the resulting mov.

I’m only using FCP5.0 so they may have improved this.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

3Dkiwi in the cafe is my particular guru, but thanks for the link.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Typical FCP

workaround workaround workaround workaround workaround workaround workaround workaround

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Alas, sorry no.

But think about a series of cardboard cutouts placed at different distances in front of the camera.

I’ve done a bit in Cinema4D and AfterEffects.

The most time consuming thing is creating the masks – which I did in Photoshop.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

One technique I’ve seen recently and looks good, is an artificial 3D layering. Whereby the centre of interest of the still is masked out and put on a layer closer to the camera than the backround. Pseudo 3D movement can then be fudged.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Splines aren’t renderable in c4d as they are in Max. You’ll have to sweep nurbs it.

There’s a freebie plugin, I think it’s called fastpipe, that will do it automatically for you if you need lots of them.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

I second that about Maya. Max is deep but a bit more intuitive.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Adam, I’ve never really understood the point of being able to have a camera object anything other than perspective.

Am I missing something here, do you EVER use any other projection on your camera objects?

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Brian — Done

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Brian I’ll give it a go.

It’s only the educational version of C4D I’m running so don’t think I’ll have the Presets available in the browser.

Alan