[Andy Mees]

it works just fine here with FCP generated text Mark,
you might want to check your transition settings, particularly the direction

[Andy Mees]

how auto render Auto Render works is decided by your User Preferences, if you have enabled Auto Render then:

Render : Open Sequences will render any sequences that are open in your Timeline window. It will not render other sequences in your project that are not open in your Timeline window

Render : Current Sequences will render only the active sequence that is in your Timeline window. It will not render any other sequences in your project regardless of whether they are open in your Timeline window

Render : Open Sequences except Current will render only the inactive sequences that are open in your Timeline window. It will not render the active sequence nor any other sequences in your project regardless of whether they are open in your Timeline window

[Andy Mees]

kent

what you’re doing at the moment is correcting the overall levels of the image but then telling the color corrector filter to limit those broad corrections only to the “orange” skin tone areas

as Boyd points out, you need to add 2 instances of the 3-way color corrector to fix up your shot

with the first instance you can make all adjustment as you have already done
and once that broad brush correction is looking good then leave that instance alone

with the second instance of the color corrector you use the limit effect controls as you are doing to select that secondary area of the image to which you want to make further corrections … in your case the skin tones. after you have isolated this secondary area for correction you then use the main 3-way correction tools to correct as needed

hope that helps
Andy

[Andy Mees]

>However, if money is the overiding factor then the cheapest alternative is use a chinagraph pencil to mark your video monitor.

not really adam, that will use up the pencil 🙂

[Andy Mees]

your welcome mate

FYI there’s also a rather overpriced plug from Digital Heaven called DH_WideSafe which is exactly what you need, but all things considered its not really worth the price.

you can download a photoshop file from the bbc that you can use as an overlay … it shows all the guides you need.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tvbranding/picturesize.shtml

[Andy Mees]

its not included but its on my wish list:
* Enhanced overlays for 16:9 canvas aspect including, but not limited to, 4:3 safe, 4:3 guides, 14:9 guides, center cross, and fully user adjustable guides

in the meantime there’s a free plug from Digital Heaven, called DH Guides that gives a user adjustable guide generator

https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/freeware/dh_guides.php

[Andy Mees]

recently went around the houses with this one on the Apple forum too
https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1348310&tstart=0

[Andy Mees]

what you’re missing is that the “squeeze” is horizontal during recording.
during display its a stretch, and you have to stretch it or they aspect will never look correct regardless of what you plan to do with it down the line

[Andy Mees]

an alternative workflow is simply to add a 4:3 pillarbox matte on a higher track, set the opacity to about 40%
then you can reframe the clips as needed underneath whist maintaing reference to the areas of the video being cropped
when you export via compressor the 4:3 crop will remove the pillarbox matte and everything hidden by it

[Andy Mees]

Yep, I use Edius turnkey systems to edit HD … they use proprietary hardware and cost a fortune, FCP is much cheaper and a AJA IO HD provides similar functionality and is much cheaper!

That said, they are rock solid and provide excellent realtime performance, although goodness knows I would ditch them in an instant if it wasn’t for the carrot and stick lure of full integration with our K2 servers.

Major disadvantages for me is the lack of any effective compositing tools, not all effects can be effectively keyframed, can’t view source clip waveforms, nor effectively monitor and select multi-track audio from source clips, abysmal performance if you have the Audio Mixer window open (it basically kills the real time)