[David Bogie]

I always label my reference movies with _ref.
Your reference file will be very small so you can list the folder’s contents by file size.

Links to ref movies cannot be broken unless the file is moved or deleted but links FROM a reference movie are easy to lose if any of the media the reference movie points to has gone offline which happens often with render files.

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[David Bogie]

In the olden days, even though we had analog processors, we’d put a microphone in front of an intercom speaker and have our talent run their lines through the box.
Using various intercoms, PAs, battery bullhorns, and even just a megaphone allowed each character to have a characteristic sound.

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[David Bogie]

This project is doomed.
Wedding photographers earn every penny they earn.

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[David Bogie]

Probably should post this in a Mac hardware forum. and apple.com has a good one.
I’ve always been at the mercy of my IT geeks when it comes to RAM. They buy the cheapest stuff.
Inquiries about RAM for FCP are not always based on good information. You may not receive any improvements in any applications as a result of what could be a significant expense.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

“Bugs?”
You mean there are insects in the footage? Where are they? On the lens? Flying around? Crawling on the floor?
You could use any of the cloning tools or CC Simple Wire Removal. This isn’t necessarily easy, though.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

You’re going to have numerous problems, I think. I’m wondering why or how you thought you could get away with shooting still frame animation at different frame rates.
An object that is designed to use one second of screen time to move across the screen will do so in one second regardless of the number of frames you shot to do the move. If you shot too many frames, you wasted your time because the frames are going to be discarded. If you didn’t shoot enough frames, the object will complete its move earlier than planned. You can’t just apply a speed adjustment and make the clip longer.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[John Hill] “My question is: how best to work with two monitors and motion. I understand motion is a lot slower with two monitors because they both draw on the graphics card. But apparently having two graphics cards is not good either. “

Depends on several factors.
You can run Motion4 on any number of monitors as long as you’ve got the GPU horsepower. I don’t hink you gain anything with more than two, though, the interface just gets too spread out, too hard to navigate your mouse form window to pane to canvas.

The previous version of FCP would not render many of Motion’s FXPlug filters if you were using more than one card. It was very confusing. You could run FCP on two monitors but not from two separate cards. You could run Motion 3 on any number of cards/monitors. These issues have been corrected, sort of, with the new Final Cut Studio. I can run Motion and FCP on three monitors but other Apple applications, Aperture for instance, breaks.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Needlessly pedantic post: Skywriting comes in two forms, traditional and high efficiency. Realism determines which you might wish to apply, determined by your need for a practical illusion.

Traditional style was drawn by a single aircraft doing complex loops that required a long time to perform. By the time one word was complete, air currents had dissolved it away.

The newer method uses six or eight aircraft flying in tight formation. Computer-controlled smoke systems lay out a series of dots or dashes of smoke to create digital alphanumerics. It is lifeless but practical.

This same deployment can also be done with a single aircraft if the wings are wide enough or it can tow a smoke creation system.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Are you creating the dog or the room in 3D?

Both?

Blender comes to mind, free, open source, with a h-u-g-e base of committed and creative and helpful users and developers as well as many books on the shelves at Barnes and Noble.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Motion 3 or 4?

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