[Andreas Kiel]

Try to open the .moti files in a text editor and change

to

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

fcpx version should be 10.0.6 or higher.
i will have a look at the templates to make them available for earlier versions of fcpx.

i don’t have a tutorial. but maybe i will do one.
but anyway — if you already do have all your subtitles in fcpx you are in a bad situation if there are a lot of them. fcpx is not subtitllers friend.
so the suggestion “Some reason you can’t just put a blank box behind the title? Just pick a background generator and crop it.” might be the only thing left for you.
otherwise if you don’t have special settings (per title) you can use use my xte to convert all your subtitles to a text file and my xti and a fcpxml template with a box (several around there) to reimport them.

andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

what version of motion do you have?

andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

Hi Ignacio,

As I’m the author of the plugin/generator I hopefully can answer your question(s).
TextUp is a generator that only works with FCP legacy.
With FCPX you need a Motion template to achieve this effect.
You can download my TitleExchange. Installing it will give you 8 free templates for subtitles, you will find them under Spherico in the titles browser — 4 of them do have the background box you want.
Even though there are 4 of these “box” templates they are finally 1 with several styles (plain, bold, oblique, bold-oblique). If you own Motion you can modify them for your personal needs.

But there are several other free Motion templates out there which will fulfill your needs.

Hope that helps.

Andreas

P.S.
Once you have TitleExchange installed you may look at the options for handling subtitles with FCPX — these functions are free and can save you a lot of time. Just a quote I got from a user in Italy this morning “Your application is really great! It’s saving us months of copy&paste! Really!”

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

[John Davidson]If anybody would know, it’s Andreas. I consider him the SDI expert.
I would be more than happy if I could agree 😉

But some other notes just for the records.
Several people asked me about the maximum size of a sparseimage or sparsebundle.
Here from the man pages:

The maximum size of a SPARSE image is 128 petabytes;
the maximum for SPARSEBUNDLE is just under 8 exabytes (2^63 – 512 bytes minus 1 byte).
The amount of data that can be stored in either type of sparse image
is additionally bounded by the filesystem in the image and by any partition map.

Some other notes: using a sparsebundle allows you to retrieve Spotlight finder comments on AFP devices. Corrupted sparsebundles normally can be repaired with DiskUtility.

A final note/question: Timemachine uses sparsebundles to keep your work safe. So is there any reason not to work with them?

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

[Frank Manno]“Sparse Bundles seem to have a slower read/write speed than normal.”

That’s true to a certain extent.
They do have a write speed which which in avarage is less than 5% slower than the volume they reside on. Crazy thing is that the read speed tends to be about 10%+ higher than with the volume they reside on. The reason is that the size of the DMGs is smaller than the size of the original volume so the access to blocks are way faster.
In practice this means a transfer of files takes a bit longer (i.e. 63 min instead of 60 min) but speed in editing will increase — sometimes significantly.
The other good thing is that you easily can “defrag” a sparse DMG to a certain extend. When working with a normal volume you will probably get render files etc. Deleting them still keeps them allocated on the drive. Using a sparse you easily can compact the sparse DMG and everything is definitively gone on this virtual volume . Mounting it next time will search for the “best place” on the “mother drive” to allocate free space.

[Frank Manno]“I’m also worried they can become corrupt.”
Yes I’m worried to, but more about the hard drives they reside on 😉

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

Jeremy,

When I was much younger than today I always thought this audio based LTC is the worst thing which can be done. Now I’m older, living in a new world of editing having the option to use any crap for recording video — I love it.

Some other fun experiment I may do:
Hopefully some friends and me will go for boat tour either early or late summer. I did some nice private videos of some of those tours we did 2 years ago. But this year everything will be different. A friend of my friend does have a Quad-Copter. So we will install my GoPro to the copter and attach an iPod shuffle to the audio in of the GoPro. The iPod Shuffle will have a 24h LTC as the only song on it. The iPod has a pretty good constant playback rate – but battery performance is pretty short.
As the iPod also transmits via Bluetooth we could use (not tested yet) a Bluetooth audio receiver connected to the “on board” cam(s). There will be a transmitting delay, but it should be constant on the river, we have tested that on a free non winding road with the GoPro Black.

Anyway — LTC is cool.
You can configure a Lockit in way that for example only the first 2 seconds of a clip will be covered by this crazy noise then the camera mic will take over. This way any cam with no TC-in but Audio-in can be used together with any cam with TC-in (and/or audio recorder) and they are jam synched. A customer of mine is doing that for several daily soaps.

– Andreas

P.S. If there is anybody who wants to sponsor the above mentioned holiday with the experiment — let me know 😉

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

[Andy Neil] But for a Lockit Box to be of use, don’t the cameras have to be within a certain radius of each other?

No. There can be any distance between them. So for fun you can meet at an airport with some friends, sync all the Lockits with a master one and fly to different places and shoot.
All videos will be in sync perfectly as long the cameras do have a TC in.
If they don’t have you have to use LTC, which is also provided by a Lockit as well, on an audio channel.

I don’t think that an AUX TC is ancient, it’s more actual than ever with FCPX and it’s options to sync multiple clips. Unfortunately FCPX doesn’t support multiple TC tracks – and no TC handling/modification like FCP.

Here a link to movie how we did 5 years ago. The voice over track was damaged and so I deleted it. Therefore it is a silent movie with some funny mouse movements cause of missing comments.
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/image_upload_folder/multiSync.mov

Sync options for multiclip handling on the one side are better on the other side are worse. Avid’s option to use LTC always had been working fine.
LTC also is a really underestimated thing in these days.

– Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

hi bill,

unfortunately i won’t be there.

but feel free to skype me at spherico.

– andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Andreas Kiel]

“New to P2 work flow – would a panasonic P2 card formatted in the cam be a FAT-32 card?”

Yes they will be FAT-32.

-Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will
also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil