Bret Williams
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29.97 or 23.98. Occasionally 1080i if I’m incorporating interlaced footage.
You need to make sure the BMD is set the same as your sequence of course. Not just frame rate.
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I’m BMD and haven’t seen any stuttering issues. Buttload of crashes though. I dropped back to the previous Desktop and the crashes dropped by 75%. Still the occasional once or twice per day. But better than the 10 or so.
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Beat ya to it. But guess what? Opening the project f*cks the font and an xml export just reports Helvetica. Don’t screw up your fonts folks.
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I may be dense but I installed it and didn’t get it. From the overly complicated first interface I was confused. Just one more thing to reinstall on a clean install too. But I’ll take another look.
But luckily I fixed my problem. For some reason my custom title was nested in an extra folder (mModules>mModules…) in both my yosemite backup and my new clean install. I dug into the XML and the folder wasn’t nested. So it’s not enough that the title exists and is in the title browser. No. It has to be in the exact file path. Which X doesn’t stare with you unless you want to dig around in the xml.
Next problem. I’m missing a font for one of my titles. The interface doesn’t say I’m missing a font or give any warning of any sort. Nada. It just swaps it to Helvetica. So I’m digging through the XML and of course, it’s all Helvetica now too. Just opening the project has likely screwed up the project because the font isn’t installed. So now I go hunting my old fonts folder hoping I can remember which font it was.
Why do I do clean installs again?
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Today I have the issue after the El Cap update. I’ve copied over all my plugins and custom plugs, but one lower 3rd, a custom version of a motionvfx plug isn’t relinking. Rebuilding all of them will really suck and the client has a tiny update. I did the prudent thing and updated after the project was complete. My custom title refuses to acknowledge. Still says it’s missing. Of course it doesn’t give the file path. But I have a backup of my template folder from yosemite and I put it right back where it was. But nada. Argh!
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Are you looking at the event angle viewer or the project angle viewer?
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Ditto. It should be there, but it has forced me into better audio with asymmetric fades. I rarely ever do a symmetrical audio dissolve. I now tend to stretch out the outgoing audio of an interview as long as possible under the next edit, then fade it out, and do the same with the incoming, fading it in as soon as possible over the outgoing edit. Both the edits are done to the sample, and not to the frame.
And what everyone may have overlooked is that audio cross dissolves potentially interfere with the whole idea of the magnetic timeline. If you move a chunk of audio that is cross dissolved to another that isn’t moving, which chunk keeps the dissolve? Neither? But If you instead are using fade handles, the audio elements exist on their own and can be moved about freely. The same holds true for video of course, but there are so many types of video transitions that it’s not feasible anyway.
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The clock wipe? Make a circle shape, no fill. Make the stroke huge until it fills a whole circle. Turn off the curved end points. Animate the stroke begin and end points.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “That on the other hand is a whole other ball-o-wax, since you’re dealing with potential 3rd party copyright and/or licensing issues. Don’t see how they might solve that without leaving that potential crime up to you to commit and not essentially “aid and abide” in the end. The crux of the chosen system. For default material you clearly don’t need them saved extra, everything else is still up to you. So I’d say that part stays the way it is or the whole system changes on various levels to accommodate. I wouldn’t hold my breath for the latter. We’ll see.”
3rd party will always be an issue. But when one of those is missing, you simply reinstall and it gets put into the same place, in the same subfolder.
The problem is with custom title fx, presets, transitions (even changes to apple ones), generators, and effects. Apple gave us the ability to create our own, but there’s no management for such fx, and when one is missing, FCP X can’t even tell you which ones are missing.
There needs to be a way to store all these custom things, just like motion projects, OUTSIDE the app. When you create transitions and custom fx in Avid or FCP legacy you can drag the custom effect right into a bin. As well, the effect gets saved inside the timeline.
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I don’t want a new slot. I want my motion project stored along side my PSD files, my AE projects, my FCP X library, and my music, etc. all in one singular folder I have for the job at hand. I want them in my event, inside the graphics folder, with keyword motion project. As it is now, when a project is complete I have to go and manually hunt down every single transition, generator, title, and effect that doesn’t come stock with FCP X and copy them to a set of folders in the job folder, with the exact structure they were in inside the user>movies>motion templates>generators>my generators>job name>etc…
The possibility for user error is enormous. Especially after a clean install where I’ve essentially wiped out all the custom stuff. Plus, I don’t need years of custom stuff cluttering up the generators and titles.