Bob Woodhead
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I just mailed mine in – the offer is for FCP Studio Universal Version, so I’m guessing that’s about as new as it’s going to be at NAB. Of course, they may show a “dot release” (5.5 or something), but those are free anyway. Regardless, $200 for Motion, DVD SP, SoundtrackPro AND the upgrade to 5… well, DUH. Thanks Apple!
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I did the same, and also got poor framerates until I turned OFF video output (in my case, AJA IO). Went from 11 frames/sec to 29.
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Yup, this is how I do all lower 3rds, etc. But I was thinking of what Martin reminded me Avid called it – “Stepping Into” the clip. Call this one for the wishlist…
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Yup, this is what I’ve been doing (copy n paste), but didn’t seem as elegant as it should be.
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“Step In” – THAT’s IT! (in reference to my post below about Avid). That’s what Avid called it….
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Even though Avid can’t do what I’m asking for (as least it couldn’t 3 years ago, when iI switched to FCP), their interface approach for what I’d like was perfect. Scenario: you’ve sent a clip to Motion, roundtripped it back, and have it in the FCP timeline. Now you need to change out the shot that was the “base” for the Motion FX. In Avid, when you had filters applied (not talking a “roundtrip” thing here) you could double-click the clip, and it would “open up vertically” to show filters, etc as sort of a layered clip. You could then use regular edit tools to swap shots, etc. SO… if the Motion “returned” clip could somehow be opened in FCP so that the “base” shot could be swapped, without having to export a QT ref from FCP, that would then go into the Motion composite. OR, do you folks overwrite the Motion clip w/ the new shot, send that to Motion, then open up the original Motion file for that spot and copy all the FX content to the new clip?
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To echo the prevailing wisdom, whenever I get one of those “phone surveys”, the first thing I ask is “What are you paying for my time?”, which usually throws off the person reading from the script, then they say “Ummm, nothing”, whereupon I say “That’s what you’re getting from me then” & I hang up.
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We sometimes use the 25/25/50 or 30/30/40 or 50/50 (if there’s lots of expenses up front). Usually depends on the size of the client and frequency with which we work with them.
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We usually send Vito “The Persuader”. We don’t usually tack on late fees first time around… just as long as we get paid. We DO say something about it though. Calls, emails, letters, depending on how late it is. None of our good clients pay late. The ones that pay late we usually don’t want anyway.
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2 lucious mounds of beans waiting to be roasted, match dissolve to 2 lucious mounds…. ooops…. the keyboard’s still on……