[Chris Wyatt]

Hi Kevin
the short answer is use both. I love using Livetype for long form projects. Its very stable and I dont mind opening separate LiveType projects from my Final Cut Pro timeline with the ‘open in editor’ command. For speed and efficiency in more complex composites, Motion works better.
The ability to create custom templates in Motion 3 and use them in FCP6 is also a great advantage.

Livetype is not part of Motion. Motion has a different and in many ways more powerful text animation engine, very configurable. These text effects – (behaviours) are specific to text because of the way Motion deals with text groups – more than one glyph if you will. The text preset categories in the library panel of Motion are mostly of this type. Livefonts are tacked into Motion – there is only a limited amount of control available.

Its not that the controls are less flexible – they are an order of magnitude more flexible than LiveType and consequently quite scary first up. You can save more or less anything as a preset in Motion.

Hope this helps

Best Regards
Footagehead

[Chris Wyatt]

Hi Anders Holck
many thanks for making a new version for us.
I can show users untill they turn blue where the preferences for FCP live and how to trash them so they can be recreated, but your elegant little application is always the big backstop
for them.

Best Regards
Footagehead

[Chris Wyatt]

Hi sami kallinen
one can indeed preview ae through kona 2. After installing the Kona 2 use the Aja Kona control panel application and under the control tab set the default Kona output to macintosh desktop. Under display in system preferences tick the radio button ‘show displays in menu bar’. Set your display to PAL or NTSC or your preferred HD format.
In after Effects 6.5, 7.0 or CS3 beta under the preferences item ‘video preview’ you should see
the Kona 2 as an option for RAM preview.

Best Regards
Footagehead

[Chris Wyatt]

The crux of this issue seems to me to be that Motion currently only allows multiple layers of a photoshop file to be manipulated as Motion objects from within a Motion layer. You can see the individual Photoshop layers in the inspector pane from the media tab in the project pane but thats it. You can drag an instance of a photoshop layer object to the file browser, but you can’t use this object to exchange or replace with any other object or layer in your project.
Which I find really weird because its very easy to do in Final Cut Pro 5.14 and in Shake 4.1.
If anyone can help with this issue please post.

Best Regards
Footagehead

[Chris Wyatt]

It sounds like your client is not monitoring audio from the Kona Lse output.
I agree with David about the delay.
Please give us more detail about your clients wiring and sequence setup so we can help.

Best Regards
Footagehead

[Chris Wyatt]

Hi Peter
please explain how you would use the replace media button from the media inpector tab to
replace the content of one layer of a layered photoshop file as I outlined in my previous post.

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Footagehead

[Chris Wyatt]

Hi Jim
these decks and the card you mention will handle SDI embedded audio
or 4 channels of AES EBU. With the information set down in these posts you should be
able to sucessfully output 4 discrete channels of audio in one of these formats.

Best Regards

[Chris Wyatt]

Hi tristan004
to add to Walters post, also make sure that your device control preset is set to map 4 channels of audio.
This is especially important if you are outputting 4 discrete channels of audio via embedded SDI as the RS422 device control preset
will control your broadcast deck’s sdi audio inputs.

Best Regards
Footagehead

[Chris Wyatt]

Hi Marcial
it sounds like you are new to Final Cut Pro. Transitions between clips are applied
on the same video track in Final Cut Pro. If you put all of the clips you wish to transition between
with cube spin on the one sequence and on the one video track you will find you can apply the cube spin transition
to every edit point – at clip end and clip begin. Double clicking on the transition icon will allow you to change the duration and
editable properties of the cube spin in the viewer window. If you invoke help from the final cut pro menu and go to the Final Cut Pro User manual
you will find a concise explanation of transitions at this page – II-377.

Best Regards
Footagehead

[Chris Wyatt]

Hi MadMac66
if on a mac just hit command 6 and the character palette will appear in your workspace.
Command 7 will give you the paragraph palette. In Windows its control 6 and 7.

Best Regards
FilmMaterialKopf