Ben Insler
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What resolution are you exporting to? And are you exporting a still image sequence, or have you imported one (or both)?
I’ve been having Motion crash almost predictably doing simple composites and fades while rendering out to 1920×1080 animation.
-Ben
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I got it. Just needed to do a little playing around I guess. Should have know. Thanks.
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Yup. You’re right. My bad.
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The details lock is relative to permissions. You want to look under the general section of “Get Info.” Just below the ‘Color label’ attribute there are two check boxes, ‘Stationary Pad’ and ‘Locked.’ Uncheck that one.
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I don’t think you can do that (Final Cut’s not designed that way). But, you could always place an IN point in your timeine at the start of the first clip in your selection and an OUT point at the end of your last clip in your selection. The timecode display at the top left of your canvas wndow will show your IN to OUT duraton.
If you select multiple non-adjacent clips, I’d just copy and paste them into new sequence, close all the gaps, and repeat the steps above. Tedious? Not really. You’ll probably spend more time selecting the clips…
Hope that helps.
Ben
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Hold Shift while you select ‘Empty Trash.’ This should override locked protection. If that doesn’t work, go find that file in your trash bin, get info on it, and uncheck the ‘Locked’ attribute.
-Ben
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Well, if you’re doing HD and HDV, why not get everything in 1920×1080 and have FCP scale or interpolate it if you put it in a 720 or HDV sequence?
-Ben
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Did you try trashing pref? Are you using a LOT of stills?
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In my experience, you can frequently get away with using a few keying filters on a clip (be it in FCP, AE, Shake…whatever), but it’s not necessarily the BEST key, but may be passable. Complicated keys could require you to slice your layer down the middle and key each side of your frame separately. You may even need to animate masks where a key is not working correctly… these are not tasks I’d like to take on in FCP.
To answer your question though, Shake has two very good keyers included, offers real time composite preview frame by frame of a key (not RT palyback – you need to render a preview for this). You also have a great amount of control and freedom in Shake, and yes, it renders faster.
-Ben
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um… good point. Also a good option.