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Hi,
Have you checked the quality switch on the layer itself? This will toggle you between draft and best.
Check your preferences too – in the General Tab make sure that “Create New Layers at Best Quality” is checked on.
It could be as simple as that.
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Hi Kenneth,
You sound like you’re almost there.
Attach your wiggle amount to an expression slider and keyframe that slider down to zero to stop the butterfly moving. So your expression looks something like this:
wiggle(1,effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”))
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Check out the Posterize Time effect for the easiest way to reduce framerate.
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What codec did you render out to? If it’s an uncompressed AVI, then yes, that could very conceivably happen.
After Effects isn’t doing anything “wrong”, it’s doing exactly what you asked it to do: export my movie without any compression in an AVI wrapper. Just as it did when you exported your second movie: export my movie in (I guess) the Animation codec in a Quicktime wrapper.
Have a quick read of the manual, specifically the bit that’s about choosing about output formats and settings.
In answer to your final question, a 200GB movie would have to be compressed to MPEG2 to go on a DVD-video. So that’s how that’s done :o)
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[Alan Okey] “I’m guessing that it would be much better to start a project in Motion by importing the finished audio track and then building everything on top of it within the application rather than trying to import FCP sequences.”
That’s definitely what I’d do. You can get yourself in the weeds too quickly when you start factoring in transitions and nested sequences. As you’ve found out :o)
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Hi,
Put a small blur on your still, and that should help. A Flicker Fixer will probably do you. Also, check that your render settings are set correcly in Sequence Settings (Cmd-0). See if turning the Motion Filter Quality to Best helps.
Another thing is to ask yourself whether you need such a big still. If you’re not keyframing your scale to 100% on a particular still, you can happily use a smaller version. Simply scale it down a bit in Photoshop prior to importing in to FCP.
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Panopticum make a plug-in for After Effects called Ice Pattern that does what you need, I think. But it’s for After Effects, so you’d have to import your rendered footage into FCP afterwards.
Alternatively, why not frost up the screen with a Photoshop layer and a Composite mode? Google “Photoshop Brushes Ice” to get you in the right direction.
Good luck with your project,
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Hi,
The short answer is “yes”. With the strong understanding that depending on your source footage and the effects you use that your realtime performance is not guaranteed.
A few workflow tips: Try to work with the smallest stills you can. That’s to say, if you’re working in SD and not zooming in much past 100% then you don’t need to be working with 4K files. Scale them in Photoshop prior to bringing them into Motion.
Work with smaller sections, then piece them together later. It also helps to identify any section where the render starts to choke. Which leads me to…
Render out from Motion. Don’t be tempted to render in FCP. Especially with large stills, rendering Motion projects in FCP seems to be a little tempremental. I’ve experienced frequent crashes, badly rendered frames and a host of nastiness. Render out from Motion and import back to FCP seems to be more solid.
That should get you started.
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You could group the layers together that you want to feather and add a feathered mask to that group.
A channel blur on the alpha channel would give some effect. I’m not on my system at the mo, but if memory serves, that looks ugly fast.
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Nope.
“Quicktime” is a type of container, just like an AVI or FLV. You can have many different types of codec that will fit into that container. A “Quicktime file” could be encoded with a number of different codecs, such as H264, DV or, in your case, the AJA 4:4:4 codec.
Quicktime player comes bundled with lots of codecs, but if you try to play back a file that wasn’t encoded with one of those, then you will have to install that codec.
To the extent that there actually exists a “Final Cut Quicktime” file is more down to the default handling of those files. After installing FCP one of the first things I do is to change it so that any QT file created in FCP will open automatically with QT Player instead. A personal preference obviously, and it has nothing to do with how compatible the files are.
I hope I’ve made that clearer :o)
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