David Bogie
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Visit all of the AE tutorial sites and search for Motion Tracking exercises. It’s a far better tool in 6.5 and 7 than in earlier versions but it’s still ultra tedious and funky. You will render every frame where this sign of yours appears so you must be prepared for long processing times and storage capacity.
The elegance with which this gets done is proportional to the quality of the editing job, divided by the quality of the performance, all inversely squared by the amount of money you’re going to get paid.
bogiesan
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No other suggestions but since you’re posting in multiple FCP forums, please do us all a favor and close all of your threads if you find a solution.
bogiesan
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Export using “reference.” See the FCE manual.
Umm, FCE might not do that. In that case, export a self-contained DV movie and import it into iDVD.bogiesan
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> “You can have it fast, you can have it good, or you can have it cheap. Pick any two.”< I always say, "Pick one." Assuming the files are jpg or tiff, iMovie is a no-brainer; got that Kenny Is Burning Effect, nothing is more canned than that. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Lots of ways to filter video and apply mattes to isolated chroma or luma pixels. Best way to do this is to handle your makeup and costumes so you have a limited palette. Then each filter will easily clip out the target color.
Looks like very good preproduction planning to me but I only could tolerate the first few seconds.
bogiesan
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OP: > I am taking this opportunity to try and set-up a very organized and full-proof file/project/media arrangement.< There is no such solution. > After the project is done, I archive project data in the above folder structure to data DVDs. These are then databased via Disktracker software. It never takes me more than a few seconds to locate anything from a past project.< I'm going round and round with a buddy on this subject right now. I wish to point out that any corrupt or damaged file will be on the RAID 0, providing no recovery protection at all. The only foolproof backup strategy is to have incremental clones on a shelf. Generally this is not much of an issue with video since most of it can be recaptured and, as long as the project files and other resources are available, most stuff can be re-rendered. DVDs are tempting as archive media but there is no long-range estimate of their stability (only simulations and marketing hype) and there is no guarantee that you will have a DVD player in ten years. The most viable backup storage system still seems to be hard drives but that decision depends on many factors. When FW drives first came out, we were still using Media 100. We cloned off the project to the relatively inexpensive FW drive and simply put a label on it and put it in a file cabinet. We've still got some of those projects but we have no Media 100 hardware any longer so recovering those projects would be difficult using a transcoder from M100. Media 100 may not be in existence in another year so we could be totally screwed if we ever really needed those media files. Sorry for the ramble. Trying to point out there is no ideal solution except maybe printing to tape. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Cool, rafael, I’ve never bothered to pay attention to that in QTP but I never use it to export.
Thanks.bogiesan
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> I need to connect Betacams with titling software that reads only VITC. < You'll need to tell us more about that, never heard of such a thing. do you mean subtitling? > 1. I need to have VITC out on both of my Betacams. How can I do that? < At the same time? You can only bring one at a time into FCP so just rig one machine and put the tapes in it. > 2. As I understand I can capture footage with VITC to FCP. Can I output it too?< Yes and no. It's complicated by the sequence settings you will be using and the capture/output options at your disposal. That you are asking this question at all implies you have no hardware yet so I'd find a good video equipment seller and stat asking these same questions. > 3. Can I put VITC on footage captured from DV and output it to Betacam? < The answer is yes but you need the right gear. DV's timecode is not necessarily transfered when you output from FCP. Do you need timecode from the individual clips that are in a sequence? You can't do that as VITC but you can do it with FCP's timecode insertion filter that prints the t/c on the clip as characters. When you output, depending on your hardware and sequence settings, you only get the t/c of the sequence. It's all quite confusing and you need to talk to someone who knows Betacam, FCP and your titling software. Even if you find the right hardware, it might not work with your titling tools. FCP may not be the application in which you need to work. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Wow! what a cool link, thanks, yikes!
bogiesan
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Mr Mercury and Blobilize are good starts, too.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”