[Alex Kuzelicki]

Hi David,

Thanks for the tip, Dave.

No, I haven’t used the CC Wire Removal filter.

Any tips would be appreciated though. I actually have a heap of wires to take out!

Appreciated,

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Hi again,

I notice that the plug-in symbol in the Zaxwerks folder looks different than all the other plug-in symbols I have installed. It looks like a “treble cleff” rather than the “plug” symbol that all the others have.

Also, there’s no “Kind” identification eg. say, my Trapcode Shine plug-in is identified as an “After Effects Plug-in” but the Zaxwerks one just has a “0”.

Maybe my download is corrupted somehow?

Unfortunately, I’ve ‘re-downloaded’ the demo again but am getting the same problem.

Hope someone can offer me some guidance.

Thanks in advance,

ALEX

* Note: I’m on a Mac.

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Thanks Jeff. Much appreciated.

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Aahh!

Thanks so much.

Appreciated,

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Thanks Solie,

We’ll check it out.

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Ooh cool.

You’ve set me straight on a few issues – that were only really ‘issues’ in my head, I guess.

Will definitely consider just using AE to render the special fx bits and then just plop them back into FCP. Would make life a lot easier.

The only thing is, with this project, nearly every shot will be color-treated by a pre-set I’ve set up in After Effects. Still, if there’s no recompressing going on it shouldn’t matter.

Thanks kindly for the advice. I’ve learned a lot.

Cheers,

ALEX

PS – Yes I have Nucleo Pro (another excellent product).

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Yes, maybe you’re right.

I’m just trying to keep all rendering to a minimum (just read Stu Maschwitz’s excellent book and he suggests using AE as your final rendering stop).

If I render individual clips in AE and take them back into FCP to be rendered again, won’t I lose some quality along the way. I thought the point of using Automatic Duck was to get your FCP timeline into AE and keep it there for the render. Taking it back to FCP again will ‘add a generation’ won’t it… or not?

If it does though, is it really that big a deal ie. is one extra render really going to have a noticeable impact? Sorry for all the questions, I guess (as someone suggested) I’m a bit ‘render shy’ – want to keep as much quality as possible.

The source footage is DVC Pro HD 1080i (PAL) and I’d like to preserve as much of the original resolution as possible.

Thanks for your advice so far.

Cheers,

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Hi Wes,

Basically the project is a 3 1/2 minute music vid, with a cut every few seconds. There are so many shots with so many effects (lots of green screen) I’m not sure how we are going to allocate who does what.

There are two different ‘environments’ (for lack of a better description) though:
1) Action composited into various real-world locations, and
2) The artist singing and his band playing instruments composited into a more graphic world.

I’ll probably do the real-world stuff and my friend will do the graphic look.

Let me understand if this will work: If I buy Automatic Duck and use it to transfer the Final Cut project into After Effects can I then give a copy of that project to my friend so he can work on the graphic stuff? If so, when he’s done, and I’m done on the real-world stuff, how are we going to combine them into one.

Just say my project will be the Final Master, would it work if he pre-comps each and every one of his sections (in his project), then I import those Comps into my project and use them to replace the corresponding footage?

Would that work? And would that be logistically a nightmare? Or not? I have no idea (obviously).

Thanks if you get the chance to answer this,

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Thanks for the ideas.

Much appreciated,

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Thanks kindly, Adi.

Helps a lot.

Regards,

ALEX