Dan Atkinson
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Well, Motion is a little…’Glitchy’. You either get used to it and find work arounds so you can take advantage of it’s brilliant user interface, realtime playback and massive content library or save your pennies and shell out on AE, which, to be fair, is pretty rock solid.
Dan Atkinson
Creative Director
MediaBaby
Manchester, UK
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Use 800×600.
Dan
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I wouldn’t bring a motion project into FCP. Always save the motion project and export.
Yeah, glitches, big coloured rectangles, layers disappearing it’s all happened to me, but if you want to use motion then you work around. Try building things in a different way. Instead of locking layers flatten them and bring them back in.
If you’re compositing on a regular basis then it wouldn’t hurt learning AE.
Dan
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I’ve had to do similar jobs. Exporting each slide then bringing it into motion or final cut. In FCP how about using your browser? Set it to show icons rather than a list then place each slide in order left to right and descending. Then drag a marquee round them and load them all into your viewer. Do a overlay edit with transition and they’ll all be happily in order fading into each other. You can then add your audio and roll each clip to fit.
As far as delivery goes I add chapter markers in FCP then export as QT movie including markers. I give this file to the client on either a pen drive or dvd-rom. You could compress your finished file if more space is required. Your clients should be able to manage playing a QT through their laptops right?
Dan
MediaBaby
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[Chris Poisson] “I am capturing 1080 30p ProRes on my laptop as I type, in real time, via FireWire. Do it almost every day.”
Nice one. You’ve really helped me make up my mind. My laptop is up to the task. You’ve probably saved me a whole load of money.
Cheers
Dan
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[Chris Poisson] “I edit 108030p ProRes all day long on an MBP 2.4 with 4 gigs of RAM. I only capture via FW though”
108030p ProRes through firewire? Is this HDV to pro-res at 1440×1080?
Thanks everyone for the advice. I’d looked into the ioHD and it is an animal. At half the price I was hoping the MXO2 would do something similar but it doesn’t look like it will – funny how it’s sold as portable and advertised working with MBP but doesn’t deliver on everything it states.
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Thanks so far. Has anyone captured non-firewire into mac book pro using some kind of I/O?
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If motion keeps quitting on you then try trashing the preferences.
Go:
User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.motion.plistDrag it to the trash (Don’t empty it, relaunch motion and see if it solves the problem)
Are you exporting your project first?
If you export your finished project as a QT movie encoded in the animation codec it will export your exact project. If you want you can then bring it into compressor and do whatever you want with it. Be careful what codec you compress to as it may effect the quality but I’ll leave that up to you to play with.
Dan
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That’s why I mentioned it. The DVI connection on the mac seems to be outputting audio. I don’t know the science but it seems to work.
Dan
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Woah there. Take a step back. You added a gaussian blur to the clip DIRECTLY above your original on V1? yes should be the answer. If the playhead in the timeline is positioned over the two clip then it should appear blurred in the canvas, if not then you may have V2’s visibility turned off – if V2 is shaded out then you have and need to switch visibility on, check the manual. On the blurred V2 clip you need to add the Mask Shape Filter. Double click the the V2 clip so it appears in your viewer. Go into Filters tab. Use the settings to change the shape, position and size of the mask. Position it over your sign. Voila. I’m sure there must be a tutorial on youtube somewhere.