Ben G unguren
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Have you looked at the Mosaic effect? That might provide what you need in one go.
Not sure if this is helpful, but there is a “Sample Image Expression” animation preset that will return a color based on a location and sample radius that you provide. You can then use the result to drive another effect. In theory, you could have a separate sampler for each pixel or something….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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[David Ghast] “He was asking how to create a more stable project, not how to entirely destroy it by using fcp.”
Funny…. But in fact, this technique never uses FCP — not the application, at any rate. It only uses FCP’s way of formatting an XML file. I assume this necessarily strips some of the PPro metadata that FCP doesn’t care about. You can then reimport the FCP XML into a new PPro project for a “cleaned” version of your PPro project file.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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In the project window, drag one of your clips over the “new sequence” icon and it will make a sequence that matches your clip settings (1920×1080, 1.0 pixel aspect ratio, etc). Then you can delete that clip in the new sequence and you’re good to go!
IMO It’s a bit of a pain to set up a custom sequence so I usually just click through those initial settings quickly and delete the default sequence. As I understand things, it doesn’t matter what the default sequence settings are, especially if you aren’t using the default sequences!
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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A few ideas:
1. FCP XML + trashing your prefs to “cleanse” the system:
– Export your project as a final cut pro XML. This will strip the project of any PPro eccentricities that might be causing you trouble.
– Trash all your PPro preferences. I’d suggest saving your hotkey prefs so you don’t have to redo them all. But things like window arrangements, etc, I’d just redo them.
– Open your “cleaned” PPro app, and import the FCP XML that you exported into a fresh project.
If the problem was somewhere in the specifics of PPro’s architecture, this might fix it.2. Convert all H264 codecs to ProRes or DNxHD. Obviously, this is going to take up a LOT of space, but it takes longer for PPro to sift through interframe footage (H264, e.g.) rather then intraframe footage (ProRes of DNxHD), and this could be slowing you down.
3. With 5TB of footage, I assume you aren’t using all of it. It’s likely there are events you filmed that won’t be in the film. Remove all that stuff from your project so PPro can get it off its radar.
I’ve found that larger projects can take a long (looooong) time to load in PPro. Same thing with Avid, but not so much with FCP. I think that’s because PPro and Avid must be doing more to catalog or otherwise account for each clip in the project. Contrast that with FCP, where a clip doesn’t even have to be in the browser in order to be used in a timeline.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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I don’t understand why you’re using “index-1” in the first place. “Index” will return your layer number, but you have it referencing your effect. so if the expression-ed layer is, say, layer 50, then “index-1” will return 49, which (as I understand things) will look for the 49th effect in the layer called “Gradient.” This only makes sense if you have lots of effects applied to the Gradient layer. Is that what you had in mind?
I guess I don’t completely understand how your layers/effects are organized right now….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Yea, it’s judder.
You need to slow it down, or at least vary the speed, maybe add in a little rotation on the Z axis (like the camera is rolling back and forth a bit), and you should probably add motion blur.Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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I use expressions for this; it’s a simple pickwhip for where the clone is applied, but you also need to put in an expression for the clone is sampled (assuming you want it to move the sample point as well). For that, I make a point expression slider, then use that as an offset value, adding it to the clone point’s value.
I can provide an example in a bit if you’d like to see it. At the moment my computer is cranking out other stuff….
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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hmmm… Not sure this will work, but when something is selected, pressing the ‘x’ key will move your timeline to focus on that layer. Maybe it also focuses on masks? Maybe?… (never tried it — let us know!)
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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I’m sure there is something in your settings that could be tweaked in AME to get acceptable results, but if it’s working for you in QT Pro, then go with that!
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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No codec causes me headaches like AVCHD. I have used Voltaic in the past. It has always gotten the job done, if a bit slowly: https://www.shedworx.com/voltaichd
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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