Alexander Kallas
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[David Roth Weiss] “He clearly said that he created it in the animation codec. And, if he adds a graphic with the animation codec to a DV timeline, changes the compressor to ProRes, then re-renders that timeline, he absolutely does get the full benefit of ProRes, with pristine graphics.
“Correct, but only if he did not render the imported text in DV before changing it all to ProRes. I suspect he may have rendered in DV first, why else the problem?
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[Matt Dragovits] “I exported out of AE as a 16 bit quicktime movie using animation compression at 100% quality. Once in FCP I had my timeline set with ProRes 422 HQ settings. I rendered everything out and exported as a QT movie. I then brought it into compressor and used the DVD High Quality 90 minutes setting. “
Matt, what time-line setting did you have when you imported your AE 16bit Animation codec graphics?
If you had your movie in the DV codec to begin with and you brought your AE file in before re-rendering to ProRes, you got no benefit. DV is DV, and transcoded to m2v produces the “jittery” text.
It’s not a matter of preserving text that originated via the DV codec, sure it will always look better on the Mac in 8-bit uncompressed or ProRes. But only on the Mac. You are delivering in DVD, so the question is text in m2v.
Better to do the text in the 8-bit uncompressed or ProRes time-line, and go to m2v from there.Cheers
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Do an audio mix-down before export from FCP
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You need to look at the installer’s options for erasing the drive first.
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Convert to ProRes first.
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My Mac says cannot be opened made in a later version, must be opened in Motion4, and your link at Apple Motion.net says page not found
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[Stephen Smith] “Here is a sample project: 633_writeonsample.motn.zip “
Only for Motion 4 so no help for the res of us.
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[Michael Gissing] ”
Not free but CHV make a cute plugin that lets you take a definable area and clone it over the lens dirt.It can be tracked by keyframe and you can adjust parameters like softening edges etc. However as mentioned, a panning shot makes this a tedious frame by frame exercise unless the sky is fairly uniform.”
Agree, works well on stationary camera-work, but still a better option than PS, no endless transcoding problems.
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I’ve seen this and related deletion problems.
Take the problematic file/document out of the trash and put it on the desk-top, then get a hold of another Mac, start this and attach via fire-wire to your machine.
Then start yours in target mode (by holding down the T key), it will now appear as a fire-wire drive on the donor Mac desktop. Open it, drag the troublesome file/s to the trash and empty!Cheers
Alexander