[David Bogie]

> I’m annoyed and need help. < Yar, me, too, and I just got here. No, FCP does not behave like Avid. the kyeframes you set are nailed to the time, not to the relative position in the clip. You can, however, try copying the clip, deleting the keyframes, and then using Paste Attributeswith the little box that says "scale attribute times" checked. It's silly, I know. And it probably won't work the way you expect it to. Patience, some of the FCP-Avid users may drop in to help out. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

Export the footage as an image sequence of a billion jpegs. Open in Photoshop, apply any of several scripts/actions that will create matched exposure values. Hire a Photoshop geek.

the huge issue with timelapse is that the exposure cannot be consistent. At some point, the director or editor has to decide ti’s time for the sky to go dark.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Apply one of the presets to a comp. Start exploring.
There is also a section in the manual on how to use the presets. But theyr’e all different. Some sprites are objects, some are masks.

Create an empty Shape Layer. Apply one of the sprites to the layer.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

[Aaron Elkins] “What is the best way to export a set of sequences containing multiple video audio tracks?

You can’t export multiple tracks from the timeline. Your timeline is like a mixer. The output from the timeline is one video track and two (or 5) audio tracks.

[Aaron Elkins] We have 3 separate video clips on each sequence for each angle. How can we have Final Cut export each track individually? Do we need to create a new sequence for each angle?

I do not understand but you seem to be saying that each of your angles in a multiclip sequence is composed of three separate clips. If that’s the case, you can precompose or nest three individual sequences, one for each angle. Then you can bring the sequences in as the angles into your multiclip sequence.
But I wouldn’t do that. I’d build each angle as a separate sequence and then export them as self-contained movies.

[Aaron Elkins] Thanks in advance!
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Umm, sure. but I think we have a translation issue.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Your director should have asked lots of questions before shooting. As Alex says, motion tracking footage that wasn’t designed to be motion tracked is expensive. Might be cheaper to rotoscope the footage and match move to the roto.

However, the advanced tracking capabilities in CS3 are capable of producing superb results. You just need to know what all of the obscure settings do and why you need them. suggest you invest in the Adobe Classroom in a Book called After Effect Studio Secrets. Big section on advanced use of the tracking.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Foam will do this with a movie as the source.
Particle World will do this with a source layer that is your stitched images. You move the source point around the source layer and that pushes whatever is under the source point out the emitter.

Unfortunately, these advanced capabilities are not apparent nor are they adequately explained in the documentation that comes with AE. you need a few dozen AE training resources at your disposal.

Try hitting the Cycore site to see if there’s anything helpful on Particle World.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

the OP:

> any way to get my AE composition ito Final Cut other than exporting a quicktime?< It's rather like asking can my Xcel spreadsheet open in iPhoto. Answer is, yes, if you take a screen shot and save as jpg. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

I’ve done this many times and not seen the artifacts you’re seeing.
Full rez and high quality are relative to the size of the source and pixel dimensions of the output but there are limitations to Shatter’s ability to transpose vectors into particles. I’m going to suggest, without seeing your artwork, that you’re scaling it up too far.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

What you might want to do is wait till it ships and let lots of other early adopters suffer through the first major bug fixes.

Adobe sales people are, erm sales people. They don’t know anything about video or computers that make i except what their scripts tell them to say. Could have been a typo.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

also worth a read:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/porting_between_fcp_ae.html

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