[David Bogie]

It’s my opinion, backed up by many months of reading the various FCP forums, that Smoothcam is almost, but not quite, useless.
My experiments have all resulted in useless footage.

You can take your clip into Motion and you can get some more control, sort of, but I think it’s terribly oversold.

But, have some patience, I also hope you get some useful and positive assistance.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Playback is entirely dependent upon your playback application and the hardware you are running it on.

FCP is designed to do that. QT Player may not be able to handle the throughput. You haven’t told u what you’re playing it on.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

I wouldn’t do that but let us know if you succeed, that would change my mind.
The refusal of a hidden application to return is common especially if it contains many windows or is stretched across multiple displays.

I get around this weird glitch in the MacOS by using Spaces or Exposé which are both much more fun that using Hide.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

You’ve been reading too much into the problems between PC and Macintosh, AVI and DV.
It’s really not complicated if your entire production is DV.
All you need to do is agree on a format. DV is DV, pretty much regardless of the wrapper it’s in. your Macintosh will handle DV in an AVI wrapper and you can export to DV as AVI.
Instead of trying to make sense of the psots here, just open the manuals.

You can import any files that are recognized by QuickTime, including:
Video files: QuickTime Movie, AVI, and Macromedia Flash (video only—you won’t be able to play any audio portions).
For details about these formats, see Learning About QuickTime.

Types of File Formats You Can Export with QuickTime
With the Export Using QuickTime Conversion command, you can choose to export almost any file format that QuickTime supports, along with a wide variety of codecs and custom parameters that each format supports. Because there are so many file formats and specific settings, this chapter does not provide an exhaustive description of every file format and its associated settings.

Video and Movie File Formats
QuickTime movie file: See Exporting a QuickTime Movie File for Web Distribution. If you want to export a movie that has the same settings as your sequence or clip, see Exporting QuickTime Movies.
DV Stream file: DV Stream files encode synchronized audio and video together digitally as on a DV videotape. These files are primarily for use with iMovie. See Exporting a DV Stream.
AVI file: AVI movies are a Windows-compatible standard for digital video. See Exporting an AVI File. AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

No.
If you think you paid for FC Studio, you got ripped off.
You should have paid for and received the installation disks and licenses for everything on the machine.
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bogiesan

[David Bogie]

You have described an effects shot where you don’t need tracking to pull this off.
What are you tracking?
What do you think you’re going to accomplish with Mocha data in this case?

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

You’re talking about editing and assembly, not compositing.
It would be best to place your clips into your vide editor on lower tracks and add text either from your video editor or from AE onto upper tracks and render within the editor to your final output codec.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Yar, it’s weird how often we see this message, You must purchase the full version of Flip4Mac to perform exports.

If you open and read the stuff that came with the freebie, you’ll see how it works.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

WaveWorld.
It’s completely awesome for this stuff but it’s not like you just pop it open and apply it.
You will use WaveWorld to create a grayscale map and pull that into Colorama or some other tint filter.
You will create one Waveworld output for each surfer and then use blend modes to combine them all into a precomp that will be passed on to Colorama.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Your post is very confusing. The list of tools you have at your disposal an, we infer, with which you are conversant, implies you know what you’re doing. And yet you seem to be asking a fundamental question about interlacing. Are you?

bogiesan