[Brent Streeper]

Thanks Charlie and Dave.
Good point on the external drive just being the transport drive. I’ll talk to him and find out what his playback plans are.
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

Awesome.
That’s a great little tip.
Thanks very much.
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

That’s a great tip! I need to go through the entire tutorial. I’ve avoided expressions long enough.
Would I be able to apply that to a premade background?
Thanks,
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

That’s a great tip! I need to go through the entire tutorial. I’ve avoided expressions long enough.
Would I be able to apply that to a premade background?
Thanks,
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

So, I’m trying to work out this tracking issue.

What I’m trying to do is replace a sign in the shot with a sign created in photoshop. I’ve got a pretty good track to match the camera movement, but since replacing the sign is an afterthought, the scene was not shot with any solid tracking points.

When I export the footage with “Field Render” set to “Off” and import it back into FCP, the photoshopped sign tracks really well, but the footage looks degraded.
When I set the “Field Render” to “Lower Field First”, the footage is much cleaner, but the sign suddenly has a lot of movement that wasn’t there before.

Is this a problem of mixing interlaced footage with a non-interlaced element? And if so, how do I work around this?

Thanks,
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

Thanks for the replies.

I messed around with the Render Settings and had to set the “field render” to lower field first. That seemed to take care of the quality loss, but messed up my motion track. I’ll have to go in and mess with it. When tracking interlaced footage, is it better to turn the “Seperate Fields” function to off in the “Interpret Footage” dialogue box , or to leave it at “Lower Fields First?”

Thanks again,
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

Thank you all.
This is why I love the COW.
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

Thanks for the replies,
Is there a way to copy photoshop text layers into AE text layers?

[Brent Streeper]

Thanks guys,
It only seems to work when I drag it from the Browser. The Viewer gives me the same error.
Thanks again,
Brent

[Brent Streeper]

What if sync issues are occurring in short clips with a fast drive?

We’re capturing 23.98 DVCPro HD onto a Huge MediaVault. The Huge drive is RAID 3 and plugs into the Dual 2.5 G5 through an ATTO dual channel 4Gbit Fibre Channel card. None of the clips are longer than 2 minutes, but every now and then we find a clip with the audio about 4 frames off. When we recapture the clip, the sync is good. Obviously something is happening in the capture process that is causing the audio lag, but why is it only happening intermittently? Also, the DVDPro HD footage is only 11 MB/s, so the system should easily be able to handle the data flow.