[Brendan Maghran]

Have you recently updated your operating system? Snow Leopard? I recently updated mine and my Avid went all out of whack. Perhaps a similar problem.

[Brendan Maghran]

Well in terms of control over the set, I have complete control with a whole ceiling grid of lights and a couple ARRI kits at my disposal, so lighting is not a problem in terms of amount. I’m not entirely sure if I can shoot at 90 fps but will look into it for sure. Do you think that shooting at 1/125 would help the camera recognize the reflective tape easier with less blur?

Today I practiced in motion with the trackers, the transformation and 4-point behaviors. I was able to track an object fairly well, but I don’t know how to connect a particle emitter or replicator to the tracked object.

I understand the hot spots in video and I can definitely Luma key them out, but I don’t really understand what you mean with using a blue light on the camera and pulling the mattes from the sticks, what would pulling the mattes from the sticks do, could you elaborate on that?

I don’t really work in any sort of special effects programs very often, I spend my time studying editing and using FCP and Avid, so thanks for helping me out it’s much appreciated.

[Brendan Maghran]

If I put reflective tape on the sticks how well can motion track it? I’ve never used the tracker in it. In terms of renting a higher speed camera, I’m doing this at school, so I really can’t. The song is a dance club type of song, and the band is going for a very colorful image. I want neon light streaks to look like they’re coming from the drumsticks and guitar as they move.

After using the tracker in motion or AE how would I connect the tracker to the light streak effect? I’m pretty amateur in AE, but little better in motion so some of this stuff is relatively new. Any help is very, very appreciated.

And when you say you’d mask the sticks do you mean you’d rotoscope the sticks? Sorry if I sound confused.

Thanks,

Brendan

[Brendan Maghran]

Well in my situation I believe it was a read/write issue, in which case I went to my applications>avid media composer and went to “get info.” I then went down to sharing and permissions and switched the privilege to “read and write under my name.” This is my personal computer I’m not sure what you’re working off of. But that was my situation, hopefully that helps.

[Brendan Maghran]

I actually watched Rich Harringtons tutorial on trashing final cut preferences a few days ago because FCP 7 kept crashing on me. It really worked I haven’t had any problems since.

[Brendan Maghran]

Thanks for all the advice, I really appreciate it when people help me out on this forum. I will definitely use this advice next time I batch capture. Thanks again.

Brendan

[Brendan Maghran]

Hey Ed,

Thanks for all the suggestions. I really appreciate the help I receive on creative cow, it truly is very helpful.

Thanks again,

Brendan

[Brendan Maghran]

Well I received help earlier and it turned out to be some sort of permissions “read and write” issue. Thanks for the suggestion though. And yes I went to the media creation and that button was unchecked. Do you know what most people use as their default media drive if not the Macintosh HD. I only have one HD on my imac. I’m not doing professional stuff quite yes, as I am still in school. I was thinking of buying a 500 gb or 1 tb external to use as my default. What do you think of that idea, and if you have other suggestions please let me know.

Thanks again

Brendan