Chris Gormlie
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The folks over at Industrial Revolution have one for motion.
https://idustrialrevolution.com/component/option,com_sobi2/sobi2Task,sobi2Details/catid,2/sobi2Id,8/
In my opinion I wouldn’t get TOO creative with it. Keep it funtional.
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From an editing viewpoint, I have always cut each ‘scene’ in it’s own sequence and dropped these sequences into a ‘master’ sequence. I cannot claim this is the best way to do things, however it made the re-ordering of scenes much easier than having a full cut on the timeline.
Your technical/codec/workflow questions beg more details about how your footage is/will be shot.
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On the 2 occasions I can recall running into the same issue, the first was related to the MAC user being created after the guilty footage was ingested and after an OS update.
The 2nd time we narrowed it down to having .motn files in the timeline as opposed to rendering our motion work out to .mov and inserting it.
Does your export always crash in the same spot? If so, you may be able to estimate where on the timeline any offending files may be.
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I’ve never thought of motion as an alternative or replacement to AE. I use both frequently and both excel in their own way.
Motion is integrated into FCP in a way that AE cannot. As a tool it is perfect for templates/dropzones and using right in the FCP timeline. It is also the tool I will jump into for quick and simple motion graphics. It’s replicator function for example is much more manageable than AE’s options.
I will use AE for the more complex jobs especially anything that dictates a lot of pre-comping or close-contact with 3DS or C4D. I also prefer it for composting work.
I’ve not encountered many crashing issues with Motion, certainly not to the extent to which you seem to be suffering.
As I say, in my opinion they are not tools to be seen as alternatives, but complimentary to each other.
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It go’s without say that video which isn’t owned or licensed by a client should never be used, but I can think of a dozen or so times that I have been asked to use a piece from a video hosting service (youtube, vimeo etc) where this is the ONLY copy of the video that they have. The same go’s more frequently with DVDs.
Not surprisingly the client who finds themselves in this situation is frequently not very tech savvy and seldom has access to their own web-server.
DVD/WEB/Digital ripping software is a toolset that any digital post-production professional should have in my opinion, and all this ‘copyright theft facilitation’ assumptions that fly around these tools should in no way deter anyone from learning them.
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This is something that I am being asked to do more and more. Clients increasingly seem to only have the ‘web video’ of something they then want to add to or include in something else.
I use firefox with the video download plugin found at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
It go’s without saying that often the quality of the video is way below what anyone would consider as desirable, but if needs must….
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If its more than just a simple rate change, I will usually do any retiming in motion.
Generally i will switch on the optical flow and get the painfully slow (on my meager system at least) analysis to begin from the start.
I can do all the retiming work while it works all that out and bring it all back into fcp when properly baked.
If the clip to be retimed is part of a larger file, I would recommend either recapturing just that clip or exporting it to work on. It will bring down your optical flow analysis time hugely.
I’ve demo’d twixtor, and was very impressed, but for the most part it looks like breaking a walnut with a sledgehammer. I look forward to the day optical flow in built into fcp.
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WOW… what can I say.
Matrox support read this thread, next thing I know they’ve phoned me to sort things out!
Looks like todays update to the 1.5 firmware did the trick.
Just recaptured 1080i50 and its all in sync.
Thanks all.
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A wee bit more testing has resulted in me ingesting same footage, same deck onto same drives (Firewire 800 single drive non raid lacie) at 720p rather than 1080i.
This time the audio is in sync throughout.
Could it be a drive issue? Is the stress of 1080i substantially more than 720p that either my capture drives, or even the mxo2 mini cant handle sustained capturing over long clips? FCP didn’t flag up any dropped frame issues and I’ve certainly had no issues with 1080i50 HDV before.
Still waiting to hear from matrox.
cheers
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John,
The J3 has REF, in fact its the only thing that has REF at the moment, which seems kinda redundant.. however.. as far as i can discern, the mxo2mini has no dedicated REF input.
cheers