Ariane Fisher
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Yes, I did try that. I can get the circle to glow, but the maximum expanse on the light rays doesn’t expand very far at all. I also tried all the other glow filters and a combination of them. Is this possible with Motion 4? I’m not looking for shadows or reflections at this point, just a light source with rays emanating. Like you would see if the spot light shined at the camera.
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Have you tried it with Motion 4? I gave up and went back to 4:3 on my templates because that’s what 98% of our footage is. I figured out a workaround for anamorphic templates using XML but that was no quicker than the suggestions offered already.
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One video card will support two monitors. You might be in for a world of the spinning beach ball of death as well as other random conflicts if you mix video cards. Your X1900 should support 2 monitors as it is, not that keeping your existing video card will speed things up.
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It sounds like you are using sequence markers rather than clip markers. Have you tried clip markers?
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I wouldn’t try to use any motion templates with that set up. I’ve edited in FCP on that same hardware without too much of the spinning beach ball of death, even with 15 layers of video with blend modes, etc. It’s possible, just stay completely away from motion templates; they won’t work well there. If you need to round trip to motion, here’s what worked for me. Place the motion project in the timeline. Edit in motion, then export the .mov at the same res as your sequence and replace it in the timeline. Best of luck with it; plan on plenty of time for coffee during render. 🙂
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You can also create the rectangle at the final size you want, and then animate a crop or rectangle mask to reveal it.
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What kind of system are you using? Using motion for stabilization does work quite well, but is extremely processor and time consuming, even on a 2 second clip.
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Once you get it out of Compressor, you might need some help with the authoring process in DVD Studio Pro. You might want to consider buying the Pro Training Series Manuals for DVDSP, Compressor, etc. They do an excellent job of walking you the process of authoring a DVD. Good luck, we’ve all been there.
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Further testing. This morning I’m doing 3D templates without lights and cameras, but still have multiple drop zones, blend modes, etc. and they’re getting done in 40 seconds or less. Anyone think the GT120 card might just suck with lights? Also, any thoughts on getting both processors or all 8 GB RAM to kick in?
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Thanks. I’m on Motion 3.0.2. I tried Software Update again just to be sure. It’s almost painful how slow it is. Anything I can do to get the computer to use more than 2GB of RAM? Or both processors? I would’ve thought having 512MB of VRAM would be sufficient, considering that’s what I had in the X1900 card on my 2006 MacPro with 5 GB RAM.