Captain Mench
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Sheesh — no, there isn’t an easy way. I think I understand what you want. Similar to those HP commercials where a frame on the video needs to hold the picture no matter where that frame moves.
When I do stuff like this I do it in After Effects where there is motion tracking.
You can assign corners to the frame and corners to the picture and it will track by itself.
I seem to recall a motion tracking plugin by CVH??? CHV??? Don’t remember. Also not sure how good it would be.
Also — you CAN do this by using keyframes in FCP, but it gets very hard… let me know if this is your last resort.
AND – I don’t know if Motion does this or not. Not running motion.
Good luck,
CaptM
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lol — yeah, I’ve used it quite a bit until it stopped working one day. Although I hate it, I’m learning to live without it.
I’ll get around to fixing one of these days.
CaptM
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Although I’m sure Walter’s answer is correct, I didn’t understand it… and if I didn’t, you might not either. (I think it has something to do with compressor which I never use)
Here’s what I do…
File – Export – Quicktime Conversion
Make sure the setting is set for Quicktime Movie
Then, under that it should say Recent Settings or Default Settings… change that to Broadband HIGH.
Then, click on the OPTIONS button of the export dialog box and then SIZE… change the size there to reflect a 16:9 ratio.
CaptM
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Modify – Timecode…
Give that a try.
CaptM
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FCP doesn’t want to handle the compression you have on your audio. Yes, the sample rate might be 44.1, but I’ll be they’re acc or mp3.
Change to aif and export back out of iTunes… set your itunes preferences to encode at AIFF (might as well go for 48k 16 bit because that’s what DV is anyway.
Then let it encode. I use the show in finder feature and then drag that file directly into my browser window inside FCP.
Good luck,
CaptM
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HAHA!!
Superman has learned to fly.
Congrats — better start working on your answer to “Well Shane… we’ve all admired your work. Now in two minutes or less, tell us your life story…”
CaptM
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Hang on Matthew —
Let’s not get drastic just yet. But Tony — do save his post for later.
Try this…
Go into System Drive/Library/Receipts
Then look for QuickTime###.pkg where the ### is 702 or 649 or whatever.
Grab ALL of those… even one that might say 704.
Trashem
Go to your Apple menu and select Software Update.
Run the QT update again.
You should be fine.
CaptM
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Are you sure you created the button from OPTION-R and not COMMAND-R?? Command-R will only render certain things unless you tell it to. Option-R renders everything.
CaptM
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Not sure exactly what you are trying to do… I’ll have to read the post again and again.
One workaround would be to cut the masked layer right there and then erase the mask from the new layer. Now you’re back to the original. You can even back up the new layer and change the opacity to bring it in.
Good luck,
CaptM
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yeah — the reason it’s looking choppy is that you have duplicate frames. Maybe try cutting out all the duplicate frames and then use AE’s time remap to slow back down. This will add some motion blur and frame blending which might… MIGHT help.
CaptM