[Andrea Stewart]

Its in User Preferences. Third tab over is Labels. You can change them to whatever your heart’s desire.

What you can’t do is change the color like you can in After Effects.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

Right,I know the effects don’t carry over, but that’s my question — How do I export just those few clips?

OR How do I go about removing the filters applied in Soundtrack from within my timeline. I think it’s best if I remove all of them rather than export them – that would be a huge pain in the peducus for me.

The only audio clips that I want to export and replace with aiffs would be those that I time altered within FCP.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

Well folks. Here’s what I ended up doing. I did use MB Looks and created my own Day for Night setting. I used Color Saturation and Levels, Stopped down, setup some Spot Exposures and vignettes, added film grain, etc.

Once I got it back into FCP, I also de-interlaced it using Joe’s de-interlacer, and added more red noise.

Its alright, but not the most convincing in matching the existing over-gained up video footage that’s in the show already.

I’d be curious if people have presets for MB Looks or AE available for sharing. I’d happily share my attempts with others.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

Thanks, great answer Kevin. Just what I needed to know.

Now can you answer me this…
The same project requires me to make a PAL version. Besides resizing, what would I need to do to make this conversion? Can I just plop my nested comps into a new PAL 25p comp? Part of this animation has NTSC footage which is time remapped already for some stop action and slow downs. What would I need to know about handling the change to PAL concerning this part of the animation?

Thanks for your insights.

Cheers,
Andrea

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

Simple. Just COPY from Illustrator to your clipboard; Create a new layer (use a solid comp size); Click on the Position in the new solid. PASTE. You can then take the keyframes from the position and Make a New Mask. then paste those keyframes on the new mask shape. That should do it. It may be that you can just make a new mask and then paste the clipboard on the mask shape line directly. I can’t recall.

Also, make sure in the stroke pallette that the paint style is set to “on transparent”.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

The problem maybe that you’re on a PC, not Mac.

Try using Zip to unstuff it.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

It seems to me, Ian that I saw a tutorial once about animating the Lewis and Clark trail across a map of the country. I can’t find it at the moment, but as I recall it involved creating a path with the bezier pen, and then using stroke with the stroke distance spread out.

This isn’t the tutorial I was thinking of, but here’s an article by Chris & Tish Meyers. It seems to do the same thing.

https://www.dv.com/columns/columns_item.php?category=Motion+Graphics&subGenre=&articleId=175801317

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

Woops, sorry Winston, I meant my post for Scott, the originator of the thread.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

I’ve had some serious problems with DVDxDV. When I used it last time everything came out with huge pixelations. We also bought it to run on one of our laptops so as not to occupy the FCP systems, but it wouldn’t create a usable movie on the laptop. Also, unless you get the pro version, you’re stuck with 720×480, not 720×486. Just a nuisance really.

I recommend doing exactly what you’re doing if you want the best quality, Winston. Well actually, if you want the BEST quality, use a DVD player with component out and run it through an AJA or somesuch I/O interface.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC

[Andrea Stewart]

Great tip Kevin! Mo betta than cutting, pasting, making sure effects transfer, etc.

Andrea Stewart
Producer/Editor/Director – Owner
Germane Creative LLC