Atticus Brady
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Thanks Jeremy. I followed the uninstall instructions, dumping all the calibrated settings and folders from the hard drive, re-started, and while the calibrated message has disappeared from a couple of the thumbnails and it no longer appears during a trim, it remains visible in most of the thumbnails (it’s a 35-min sequence with lots of edits). Any other suggestions?
Atticus
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Thank you gentlemen for answering so promptly! I shot on all the same QT format, just different horiz and vert resolutions, all of which are accepted by Final Cut. I do indeed get the green bar above those clips that differ from the first clip that establishes the sequence setting. This confused me as I was expected all clips to be grey. Not the end of the world, it’s just rendering those clips can take a while. Oh well. As for the music, I figured it was a copyright issue. I’ll deal with it. Thanks so much!
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Figured it out. Nothing wrong with the Tiff format. What I had done was create a one-frame subclip from a longer master clip and exported it as a TIFF file. I think the fact that it was only one frame in duration didn’t allow Motion to see the file. I went to the original master clip, marked in/out on the frame I wanted and exported that. That, for whatever technical reason, created a tiff of longer duration which Motion then recognized and imported just fine. Thanks for getting back to me guys!
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Hi Peter,
Dragging from the desktop is a no-can-do. Dragging the file onto the canvas and releasing simply snaps it back to its position on the desktop. Perhaps it’s a TIF thing. I’m going to try exporting the frame grabs as JPEGs, unless you have any other thoughts…
Thanks
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The file extension is .tif. When I select one in Motion in the file browser it does not appear in the thumbnail window and hence will not import.
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NEVER MIND! Just solved my own problem. Duhhh….
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Turns out, the problem is not uncommon. Both Motion and FCP software had to be upgraded. The templates now work fine. The renders have improved significantly, though I have encountered another problem: There is one title I’ve created in which I have a name scaling up slowly over 8 seconds and several seconds in, a couple of the letters jump a bit. The jump only lasts a frame, but it’s annoying as heck. I’ve tried doing the move a variety of different ways and have exported it into both FCP and as a stand-alone QT file, all at the best render quality and to really strong codecs, and the blip remains. Any thoughts?
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Thanks for the tip on flicker filter. I’ll give it a shot. Yes, that’s exactly what’s happening with the template. When I look in Master Templates, and open the folder I created, the template shows up as a thumbnail, but when I insert it into the timeline and double-click it into the viewer, it just plays black. Very weird. Also, perhaps something to note: it’s just a straight white font on a black background…the thumbnail plays the font and the animation of the font, but the black background isn’t there, the background is the same color as the gray template window. Don’t know if this matters, just a detail.
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Stephen,
The Motion and Master template settings are set to Best quality. That’s what has me puzzled. Is it better to export Motion projects from Compressor, then bring it into FCP?Also, while I have you here, I watched your Custom templates tutorial. Loved it, but when I took a crack at it the template (just two titles with crawl against a black background) couldn’t be seen in the Viewer. I only get black, but I know the template is there because it’s in the master template list.
Thanks so much for your help!