Brandon Smith
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Nick, that makes a lot of sense. Your solution seems to have fixed my problem. I just bumped all of my stills prior to that point into a track that had the visibility turned off. Now the stills i’m working on playback fine.
Dave, I’m aware that motion is generally a better program for doing animations, however this is a bit of an unusual project I’m working on. I have audio from a wedding ceremony, but no video. What i’m trying to do is a create a photo montage type of thing, where the photos are synced up with audio from the ceremony. So when the couple is exchanging rings, there’s a photo of the groom placing you a ring on the bride’s finger. You get the picture.
The reason I decided to do this in FCP is because (1) I’ve had some trouble working with lengthy projects in motion before, (2) I thought it might be much easier to make the timing work in FCP and (3) most of the animations I’ve done have been pretty simple. When I wanted to do some more complex animations, I’ve sent those individual stills to motion.
I thought the length issues were more a limitation of what motion was made to do, but maybe it was just the particular project i was working on. I suppose I could have also lined all the stills up in motion, with the timing the way I wanted to, and then sent that to motion.
I’m always interested to learn from the experience of those more advanced in the field than me. Given the nature of this project, do you still think I would be better off doing the project in motion?
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This is really my first foray into authoring blu-rays, so I actually didn’t even think about using AME, but that’s a good point.
My normal workflow for a project like this would be to export compressor and use DVDSP to burn a DVD, but obviously I can’t do that this time. I’ve always used compressor since I was under the impression it was the best option for maintaining quality, albeit slower than exporting a self-contained QT file. Would using AME affect the video quality either way?
@Joseph Owens, thanks for the help. I actually imported a quicktime bluray file I created for another project into encore as a test. In the media library pane, it said “don’t transcode” next to the .ac3 audio file. Next to the .264 video file though, it said “untranscoded.” I pulled up the transcode settings for the file and it did say “don’t transcode” in the settings. Also, when I right clicked the file the “transcode now” button was grayed out. So I’m guessing that it knows not to transcode the file but was a little confused by the different verbiage next to the audio and video files.
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That would be the problem. Thanks very much. I think I’ll try reassigning the shortcuts to work with the regular number keys.
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I’m not on a laptop, I’m on an IMac. There is only one set of keys :/ Also, I checked the language settings in system preferences and it is set on english. Is that what you were referring to?
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I seem to get the same result either way. I’ve noticed if I hit apple+2, which should be cut to video angle 2 in the multiclip keyboard, it hides the canvas. That is the shortcut for hiding the canvas on the default keyboard layout; so it seems like maybe it isn’t changing the keyboard layout to multiclip, even when I select it.
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Under tools.keyboard layout, it says default layout-U.S. So I don’t think that is the issue. Other ideas?
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The opt+L was what I was looking for. Thanks!
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Thank you all for your help.
Mastering to DV is not an issue. The primary usage of this video will be on the web. The only reason I chose NTSC DV was because it is what the footage given to me was shot in.
I’ve been editing for awhile but just recently starting to get into projects where I want to build graphics in a separate program like motion, so in that regard I am somewhat new at this. Do I understand correctly then, that working in an uncompressed or apple prores timeline will help, even if the video I have is in DV (as long as I am not outputting back to DV)?