[Chris Fisher]

Alan,

Thanks a ton for the fantastic answer, and the tip about Motion/AE.

-Chris

[Chris Fisher]

And that’s kinda what I have been thinking of doing.. Just really, a MacPro would be ideal that the cost is so high (for me)…

But I figured I’d get head from the Mac/Final cut group.. But also figured you might all know my best alternative…

I’ll take a look at Avid. I think I am hoping you guys will convince me to stay with Final Cut.. lol!
-Chris

[Chris Fisher]

Steve –

Being a total rookie, can I ask what might be a really dumb question? Do I still get “penalized” in some ways for using HDV, even when I captured into final cut as ProRes using Apple’s HDV to ProRes method talked about here on the cow?

I ask this because – The other day I capture out of my HDMI port into my machine using a Matrox mx02 mini as ProRes and seemed to be able to get away with a lot more filters and effects before I really needed to render.

My understanding was if I bring HDV into FCP has ProRes what I am working with is true blue ProRes. Am I wrong? Is there still some kind of limitation aside from the limits of coming from lossy HDV with less color and quality… I guess, I am asking, is it not true ProRes or something?

[Chris Fisher]

Great tips Dennis, thanks so much I’ll try just that!

My timeline is fairly simple, 5 tracks, the background image, a track for a vector box that I overlay images inside on, an image track, the video track, then a lower third track on the top (typically motion templates).

[Chris Fisher]

Hmm.. I’ll try that and then re-export and see how it does.

The bugger there of course is, the whole reason for using the motion templates in my case is the text needs to be changed for every video…

Thanks for the idea,
-Chris

PS. Anyone else out there run into this issue? Any thing you did that lets you still use Motion templates?

[Chris Fisher]

@Shane

Correct, only after render. If I remove an effect, such as Color Corrector, the picture in the preview player looks like it’s fixed (of course, with my color corrections now gone).

But then if I render that clip, it’s back. I’ve not tried rendering with Color Corrector totally off, because I can’t really release the video like that..

Thanks for helping a n00b!
-Chris