Alan Langdon
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COW Coins
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Well, yes, there is one directional light pointed at the wall where the TVs are, plus a few spot lights.
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OK, so proving into this issue, I have found that if I go to the Group containing the 2 TVs which dim when the camera crosses the X axis… if I go into the Properties of the Group and choose, under Lighting / Sahding, and lave it OFF, I do not get this use… I guess I solved it, although it really baffles me that such a sudden change in brightness can happen just because the camera moved one degree this or that way. Any info on this will be much appreciated!
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Thanks for staying here to help me! The first paragraph makes sense, I’ll use this to research some more what is happening. The last line is also intere4sting, I would have presumed the keyframe needed to be selected.
<font face=”inherit”>One thing which might be interesting to say (and might hint at what is </font>going<font face=”inherit”> on) is that I’m adjusting keyframes of a camera, which I set in the Properties to : “* Animate: Use Orientation”. It felt like the way to go when I started, although I did not know what it meant 100%. Also, it is a Viewpoint camera. Do these infos help?</font>
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</font><font face=”inherit”>I’ll go prod some further with your tips and see if I can figure what’s </font>going<font face=”inherit”> on.</font>
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So yeah, I tried that several times again and no avail. One things which seems to be a hint (which I do not grasp yet) is that these keyframes which do not have handles, when I right click them and try to choose interpolation method, they show 2 methods are being “shared”: – Linear and – Bezier (they have dashes in front of them, see attached image). How did I get here? This happens on several of my keyframes, thus this issue keeps bothering me and limiting my camera movement easing.
Much appreciated your attention on this, truly.
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Thanks, Robin! I’ll read the link you sent me. Although I must say it seems awfully limiting, considering that in AE it’s been a matter of turning on a switch, at least since 2003 when I started using AE. I guess it has to do with how Motion deals with 2D layers in a 3D space. Thanks for the link, will read it ASAP, because I am bound to need getting around this very soon (for now I have given up the effects I was placing in the Group.)
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Thanks, Robin!
I tried that, after reading a comment on someone else’s post about the same issue, but it did not work for me… I’m still baffled here, it seems like such a basic thing that I am starting to think there’s a bug in this version of Motion (or more likely, a bug in the guy behind the mouse, hehe)
Thanks!
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Thanks, I’ll try that. BTW, I’m a fan of your tutorials!!
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Thank you again, Jo! Saw your post on fcp.co.
Here’s what I replied there, for other Cow users:
Thank you Joe for the rundown of so much sound advice. I have been using 90% of those procedures you mention, so it’s also good to know I am on the right path. It’s very strange, for me, how it takes SO long to rebuild these waveforms. I have left FCPX alone for several hours, several sessions, and it still is rebuilding them. Every now and then a clip previously with red waveforms becomes complete. One by one, very slow, and I am on a not-so-slow 2019 Mac mini.
About Catalina and FCP 10.4.10, I di not know there was that update, will look into installing both on my 2017 MBP and see how they go. I would love to upgrade fully, but mid project and with 32-bit apps that I still like to use, I will not upgrade yet on my main machine (Mac mini).
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I agree. I am back to 10.4.6 and also Mojave, never went up to Catalina due to older ClipWrap footage I still need to use. 10.4.9 is buggy, for sure, to say the least.
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Same here. Luckily I had done almost nothing in my long term project since upgradfing to FCP 10.4.9 so I just went back to 10.4.6…
