[Bjørn Holmgren]

cofe wrote:
>now you can shoot progressive which means that both fields are the same.

Not really. Progressive does not equal deinterlaced. Progressive scans the whole frame at the same instant, but the two fields are not identical.
Deinterlacing can mimic progressive frames by interpolation or replication. The two fields end up identical only if you deinterlace an interlaced source by replication .

[Bjørn Holmgren]

This might be a regional thing. We are in PAL land, and Black Magic has always been rock solid. We have lots of them. AJA on the other hand have made some lemons, the IO never worked properly in PAL.
Regards,
Bj

[Bjørn Holmgren]

Did you install it on the user account you try to use it from?
It seems the On2 exporter only allows one user account on the machine to access it. Installing for another user disables the first.
I do not know if this is intentional, but it sure is irritating.

[Bjørn Holmgren]

If you select the edit (v on the keyboard) and press alt-command-t you’ll get audio transition only.

[Bjørn Holmgren]

The Shake Text node comes in handy for stuff like this.
Paste this into your node workspace:

Text1 = Text(720, 576, 1, “{teller}”, “Courier”, 100, xFontScale/GetDefaultAspect(),
1, width/2, height/2, 0, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 45, 0,
1, int teller = time*200000/3600);

Regards,
Bj

[Bjørn Holmgren]

Quicktime Pro can combine image sequences into a QT reference or self-contained file. Much easier to deal with in FCP than hundreds or thousands of images.

[Bjørn Holmgren]

And here comes the obligatory “Shake is perfect for this” post:-)
Anyway, Shake is perfect for this. You can use the Camerashake node, or track a real handheld shot to animate your image.

[Bjørn Holmgren]

If all the clips have the same set of filters, this will work. If not, it would be kind of dangerous

[Bjørn Holmgren]

Thanks Glenn,
This is more or less what we do, except that we use normal composite mode with the opacity set to 50 percent. I’ll try the subtract trick on the next episode.
The offline is the reference for both audio post and picture online.
A keyboard macro recorder (Belkin Nostromo:-) is a great help, and speeds up the process. One key is programmed to the following keystrokes:
x
alt-a
s
Then I can trim with the keyboard until the pictures lines up.
This does not help with the FCP capture bug though, because I only have 15 frames handles, and the picture is five seconds out of sync!

[Bjørn Holmgren]

I’ve done this.
I was working in PAL DV resolution. I edited with two tracks, shrunk down to 33 percent and placed side by side. Lots of “Paste Attributes…>Basic Motion”. When I was satisfied, I copied the track for the left side, pasted into a new sequence, selected all, and removed attributes>basic motion. Repeated for the right side. All other motion effects was done in Shake.
You could also nest the two sequences and shrink them for a preview, but this is not as “direct”, as you would have to switch back and forth a lot between sequences.
How are you going to do the presentation? Linked DVDs?