[David Bogie]

It’s not a bug. It just doesn’t work the way you think it should.Multicam, despite its placement in the interface, is actually an effect. When you render it, you tell FCP to discard the upstream variables.

A suggested workaround is to duplicate your sequence before you render the original. As long as background rendering is OFF, your copy will remain multicam friendly and useful to you. This practice also gives you a series of versions that can really come in handy as you proceed through your editorial.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

IMpatient?
Buy a PC. you can get a card that does MPEG1 in realtime or even faster. No such product for the Mac.

MPEG1 is the oldest, lowest common denominator for minimal CPU usage with barely acceptable video quality and near universal playback ability.

Toast will do VCDs.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

The question implies you’ve never done anything like this before, never.
Assuming your effects and production noobyhood, spend a few hours researching chromakeying and green- and bluescreen production techniques. You must decide on your shooting format and then you must decide how you’re going to light this scene, how you will photograph it, and where. You need a studio.
Then experiment. Shoot some test footage and run some test on the keying the effects so you know what you are doing incorrectly and have time to fix it before you commit to the shoot.

Trying to cut corners on proper background color and lighting is something every newby tries. Doing so will only mess you up in post production. Shoot it properly, chromakey footage CANNOT be fixed later. DV generally is not acceptable for chromakeying unless you understand the limitations. Anything less than DV is out of the question. Shooting on HDV has other problems and they are beyond the scope of this forum.

Everything you need to know about preparing and shooting for keying is already widely known and easily available.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[Eric Steinberg] “Could it have anything to do with my graphics card?”

I don’t see how but I’m a Mac guy. The only way the card could affect Fractal Noise is if the effect is strictly rendered by the card’s hardware; not likely, but you can turn off the card’s OpenGL (or turn it on if it’s off) and see if that makes any difference.

Sorry not to have anything better to offer, I cannot recall anyone ever posting a similar issue with Fractal Noise.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

This is one of those projects where I’d be buying star field and deep space images or, if I knew what to do with them (and I don’t) 3d star field models.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Foam.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Okay, Kevin, you win the prize for reading between the lines to decipher hidden meaning among the implicit meanings. I assumed a typo in this statement:

> As I rotate this ‘circle’ in the Y axis the edges bow out toward me (especially around the 90 / 270 degree mark).< ... which sounds like a standard circle to me. How you made the leap to 3D rotation is a small miracle. Way to go. bogiesan

[David Bogie]

First, try winding and rewinding the tape all the way through. This is an old trick from the 3/4″ and Beta days, loosens up the tape pack.

Then, use FCP to either:
1. Set to Uncontrolled Device and caputre the whole tape (requires supervision)
2. or use Capture Now and supervise the capture.

Or, you could make a dub of the tape to a fresh cassette.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

I could be wrong about this but IIRC you can make a duplicate of the locked preset and set the new version to just about anything.
Be aware, however, that MPEG1 is a standard. if you change the preset, you’re not longer creating a standard-spec file and that may or may not play on your target machine or applications.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

> [Jermaine Cameron] “I have dubbed some footage from Sony Betacam SP to mini DV but got some terrible jagged edges around moving objects in the footage. I know this is common on this type of interlaced format but these jagged lines are worse than normal.
“

It’s not normal at all. You’re making an interlaced dub of interlaced material. Should work peachy. Possibly your playback or captured clips from the DV are set improperly. Try placing one in a timeline and using item properties and a change filed order filter to see what happens.

bogiesan