David Bogie
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I doubt reinstalling will solve anything, Apple software just doesn’t work that way.
Repair your drive permissions, get rid of everything you don’t need, empty the trash, obtain any of the free Mac cache handlers like MacJanitor and purge all that junk. Repair permissions again. run Disk Repair form your OS installation DVD.
Almost all rendering slowdowns with FCP and Motion are weird user errors, misunderstanding the task at hand, or other subtle but easily fixed glitches.
If you want o uninstall FCS, you can search this forum for the term. We see the topic weekly. Some free products are available that will do the job for you and hunt down and kill every file associated with the suite.
bogiesan
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There is no way of getting around the situation you find yourself in. You will not be able to solve this except by zeroing out (note this is not the same as merely erasing) the drive and reinstalling everything from scratch, it’s known as the Scorched Earth Conundrum.
The applications for which you have lost the installers are gone forever.
You could obtain any of several disk repair utilities and let them churn for a day or two. Might work, Might not. Probably not. Your Mac service people should never have cloned the drive. How could they if it was damaged? All that did was move all of your damaged files to the new machine. They should have known better or you have misunderstood what they actually did. FCP cannot be resurrected easily from a copy or clone and a damaged clone is just insane.bogiesan
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Expressions and expression controls can shortcut your rotation settings but Parenting is your friend in this exercise.
The problem is linking the precomps together so they remain attached to each other in a logical progression and unfold together, much like a wrist needs to be parented to an arm which is parented to the elbow, etc.You can fake most of the unfolding if you don’t need to simulate a stack of objects that has depth.
bogiesan
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would help to know what version of FCP and your sequence settings.
Most such issues can be resolved by working around them. Place your clip into an empty sequence, adjust the speed, render, export the rendered sequence as a self-contained movie, import.bogiesan
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IDVD cannot do anything with that kind of format. it is going to convert everything to standard def at MPEG2. You’re wasting your time and resources working at 1080 and then scaling down to SD lots of detail is getting thrown away.
bogiesan
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It’s the graphics card where the iMacs let you down.
Check the minimum specs for Motion and compare them VERY carefully against what’s available for the iMacs. Spencer likes his lappy for his Motion work. Myself, I can’t imagine working on a portable.bogiesan
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Yar, we see this topic often, there’s a good backlog of supportive suggestions. I usually recommend AE’s Color Stabilizer but you may need something more difficult to manipulate sine your foreground has a different lighting system shining directly on him. The FCP folks often export these troubling scenes as image sequences and run a batch process on all of them in Photoshop.
The results of our shooting situation were difficult to predict unless you had extensive experience with mixed lighting sources and understand mains frequencies. Be aware that fluorescents flicker at mains frequencies but many types of high pressure luminaires such as sodium vapor have their own ballasts and flicker out of synch even with mains. You end up with a scene that cycles from properly white balanced to pink, orange, green, and back to normal. The only ways to get around it ire to add enough light to override the sodium vapors (likely impossible), to shut off the sodiums (often an illegal safety hazard in factories or on shop floors), or to shoot at a shutter speed that covers all of the lights’ varying on-off cycles; half of the mains freq. Shooting at 1/20 or 1/30 second causes its own set of issues.
bogiesan
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since you posted this same question on the apple forum, please return to all of your open threads and let us know what you came up with or what you used to solve your problem.
bogiesan
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And Color Corrector 3 Way is actually a very sophisticated keyer so you can easily tweak it to just matte the brightest spots. You can apply it to copy of the shot and mask out all other areas.
bogiesan
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You can reserach exporting stills by searching here and many other FCP forums. The question comes up often.
The main issue newbies do not understand is their video was shot on a camera that produces only about 800×500 pixels (standard DV). That’s it. There are no more pixels in the image. You can make the pixels bigger but you can’t add any more unless you know how to use some cool filters in Photoshop. Interlacing creates its won unique problems and solving them is not usually a function of FCP.
bogiesan