[Dave Hurley]

Thanks Tom! I was not sure if FCS Remover was “X aware,” but on visiting the site, I see that it is and will use it.

As for Larry Jordan, I heard Mike Horton make a reference to Larry method of installation on a recent Digital Production Buzz, so thought he might have some detailed thoughts, but a search of his forums reveals that he basically has 7 and X running on the same drive with no partitioning (but makes no promises about “round tripping”), so I guess he’s just basically saying that Apple’s partition advice may not be a big deal. I hope that works out for me because I really do NOT want to get into partitions, etc.

I’m going to go ahead and install with a partition and see how it goes–with the FCS Remover, I can always start over I suppose. Now I’m just hoping that the App Store downloads an installer (which I think it does), so that I can have a little control.

“…all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness…” yada yada

[Dave Hurley]

And I’d like to piggyback your thread to ask the related question: How do I uninstall the fine TRIAL version of this fine software?

I hastily installed the FCP X Trial version with a click or two (alongside my existing, hard-working, mission-critical up-to-date full FCP Studio setup). Both are working fine, but having seen some of the various in-depth discussions on FCP X installation methodology, I’d like to cleanly uninstall the Trial and do a thoughtful re-install of the whole Magilla (with Motion and Compressor X or 5 or whatever).

I’ll probably go the Larry Jordan route (words I often find myself uttering), but still researching, so open to any thoughts. I want have both Studio and X on hand and I loathe partitions.

So… how do I uninstall this fine trial?

Thx!

“…all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness…” yada yada

[Dave Hurley]

Thanks for this good information. I have no choice but to work with these XDCAM clips in FCP7 and alas, did not discover the Lion incompatibility until after I installed on my MBP. I can go to anther Snow Leopard desktop to ingest for now, but until I can/do alter my workflow (TBD), the FCP7/Lion enviro will probably be my reality for a while.

“…all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness…” yada yada

[Dave Hurley]

As for item #1, the easiest basic answer is to set up your timeline for the desired output format (your PAL SD) and work with the footage directly on the timeline. FCP will conform it for you. As for interlacing in a mixed project like that, I tend to set up my timeline for progressive (field dominance “none”) and bring in my source as “none” as well (set in browser before bringing to timeline or change in timeline using “format” via contextual menu). Some clips may require a de-interlace filter. I then use the compressor setting for the DV and let it handle the interlacing.

That’s what I do, but I’d be interested in hearing other folks’ impressions as to whether they get a better result by pre-converting the footage (or maybe even going to the ProRes 422 codec).

#2 The easy answer (which you may have already checked) is menu command: VIEW>EXTERNAL VIDEO>ALL FRAMES of CMD-F12

Hope this helps!

“…all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness…” yada yada

[Dave Hurley]

Hey David:

I had the same problem (filter causing rasterization), but when I applied it to the group instead of the image, it was fine. I’m sure you already discovered that, but wanted to add it to the thread.

“…all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness…” yada yada

[Dave Hurley]

Excellent news. Thanks to all of you for your helpful input!

–Dave

“…all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness…” yada yada

[Dave Hurley]

Hi Jim!

I’m one of the guys who proctored your Motion classes at NAB this year with Jem–good chatting with you here.

I have tried assiging different behaviors to the same key and the software seems to allow it but unfortunately I do not have a MIDI device here to test with, so really don’t know if it works in practice. If you get a chance to play with this, let me know. I want to tweak multiple params by moving only one slider.

–Dave

“…all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness…” yada yada

[Dave Hurley]

Thanks again Noah, but I think I’m simply failing to explain this adequately.

The intended effect doesn’t really matter (and I want to apply it broadly)–the issue is how I can change two unrelated parameters or properties on seperate objects in a Motion comp simultaneously with only one variable (or more likely, a control surface slider).

While Behaviors and Parameter Behaviors (and even Parameter Behaviors on Parameters in Parameter Behaviors) are indeed powerful stuff, there are just some things you can do in After Effects with expressions that you simply cannot yet do in Motion. One of them is linking a change in one object’s (layer’s in AE) position (or opacity or whatever property) to some unrelated property on another object. At least I don’t know how to–if there’s a trick out there, I’d like to see it.

It would be nice if we had a new Parameter Behavior called “Link” which, when applied, would alow yout to specify any property or parameter on any object and transfer the value of the current parameter to it. With a mathematical equation. Pretty much Java Scripting like AE.

That being said, I now wonder if anyone out there who has used MIDI control surfaces can tell me if I am able to assign more than one MIDI Parameter Behavior to a single control slider or key. Since my application is live, that would actually be a perfect solution. If I was using expression scripting, I could drag a null object around the canvas like a joystick to affect several animations. That I can do in After Effects, but it sure isn’t going to render on the fly.

Also, if anyone has a quick pointer to a current list of qualified MIDI interfaces for Motion, I’d appreciate it. I can’t seem to turn one up in my searches, but will keep snooping.

Thanks and sorry for the lack of brevity,
-Dave Hurley

“…all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness…” yada yada

[Dave Hurley]

Thanks for taking the time to respond to my question, Noah!

Sure, behaviors would be the way to go, but I want the position of one object to affect the scale of another. Kinda like dragging a pickwhip from one parameter to an unrelated parameter in AE and building an expression (i.e, as I move Object_B to the right, Object_A shrinks down). As far as I know, I can’t do this in Motion.

Sure, I can add behaviors to each item individually and keyframe them to occur in concert, but in a quasi-live setting (think VJ), I can’t simultaneously tweak two behavior sliders at one time. I was wondering if programming multiple parameters to a single MIDI controller ID number would give me a viable workaround.

-Dave

“…all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness…” yada yada