David Bogie
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Jamie, thank you for the great clip.
Fine work, classy.bogiesan
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Butting in.
After years of time remapping in After Effects, I can tell you that it doesn’t matter how many keyframes you use but you must have two keyframes at the end of your clip. Say they’re positioned at the last frame and about 15 frames before the last frame.
The one at 15 frames tells FCP to make a speed change from this point to the end. The last one tells FCP the clip has ended, no more frames are available. What’s going on is the one 15 frames forces all the rest of the frames that haven’t been used yet to play in the last 15 frames.The next-to-the-last KF can be anywhere. It’s only function is to use up all the rest of the frames that haven’t been shown yet. This is best accomplished with about 5 seconds of padding at the ned of the clip so the next-to-last KF can be used to smoothly come to a halt or to smoothly ramp back to normal speed.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Making Apple products control distributing rendering for Adobe products is probably a disaster before it starts. Have you tried the Qmaster forum at apple.com? some of the übergeeks have claimed success. But setting up render farm seems to be easy enough just using After Effects Render Engine. See the AE forum at adobe.com and search for the terms. There’s always a discussion going on about network rendering. You can ignore any comments you see from me over there. I just complain bout network rendering.
Hope you get it figured out and please remember to drop back by and tell us how you made out. Using Qmaster to run distributed rendering for AE would be a great thing to know how to do.
bogiesan
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Oh, my.
You want Premiere, not After Effects.bogiesan
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Can’t I delete a post?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Frank, make sure your sequence is UNRENDERED!!! Very important. “
Jeremy, I think this has been improved in FCP. At the urging of others, I have attempted to export a clip that has a chromakey filter attached to it. The clip exported with alpha regardless of the render status. it was cool. And about freakin’ time. Seems to still work on my machine, might want to try it sometime and see if it works on your system (I’m FCP6.0.4/OS10.411, QT something or other).
A real time saver and smooth workflow enhancement.bogiesan
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There’s a way to select all clips in the timeline with specific properties. Sorry, not at my FCP machine now to look it up for you.
But we see this post often you should be able to search for similar terms for a good answer.bogiesan
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Nope. Apparently not a very important feature to the design team.
You can drop your observations about Motion in the Motion feedback folder at apple.com discussions area. It’s one of the only acknowledged ways to make a comment about Motion’s innumerable flaws and failures.
bogiesan
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You apparently don’t have adequate handles to cover the overlap.
This is a common beginner’s error around here. We’ve all done it.
The easiest way to figure it out and to understand FCP’s silly paradigm limitations for transitions is to place your clips one on top of the other and adjust the upper’s opacity from 0 to 100 with two keyframes. This way you can see how much overlap is required to do the dissolve.bogiesan
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The technique is as old as movies. You pick the transition you want to use as part of your editing style and try to keep it consistent.
Every episode of CSI and Cold Case has a flashback transition. Even David Letterman has one. They’re quite different.The transition you use must relate to your storyline and the style of your project’s narrative. Several sequences include color treatments, frame rate changes, or camera techniques or lenses that are specific to the sequence such as an elevated POV or super wide angles.
bogiesan
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