[David Bogie]

Ltos of system files do not get copied into Time Machine. There’s a good forum for Time Machine at the apple.com discussions area.

If you musto rely on Time Machine, you really should invest in one of Apple’s Time Capsules, relatively cheap and designed to work hand-in-glove. but you should also have a cloner for your System files.

Get a good cloning tool (most are free) and a good backup application and then stick with it.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

You’re seeing interlacing artifacts.
the topic is way too complicated to handle in this little posty so search your manuals for the basics, search the forum for endless suggestions and assistance.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Nice work, Stephen, thanks for the contribution. I went back into System Prefs and reset the instances.
Still, your post helps illustrate how ridiculously complex, one might even say silly, setting up the whole Qmaster/Compressor thing is.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

the OP:
Hello I’m trying to put together a package of motion graphics for everyone in my cluster to use. The issue is that I have the whole Final Cut Studio 2 package and its easy for me to load in my templates in FCP but I need some kind of method to get these templates from Apple Motion to Adobe Premier and still have them able to have their user content changed.

Colin offers:
The best you could do is leave transparent “windows” which the end user in Premier could insert clips underneath your overlay. This limits what you can do,

and Noah offers:
You could use portions of some templates- keeping the alphas intact and exporting certain layers as animation codec clips. But most of the cool stuff like the text effects is FCP-only. Helps to keep the competitive edge.

So all we have offered is a suggestion to output a collection of pre-rendered clips that have holes in them? That’s a hack but it DOES create a “package.” Trouble is, any changes have to be made to the original Motion/FCP elements and then exported again. This method does not create “templates.” I presumed, for shame, the OP already knew how to do stuff like that.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

I get paid to be impatient around here.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

I bow, man, I am in awe of anyone who can write code.

Thanks for the contribution.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Put your clip into a new sequence with vie minutes of black at the head. You can, with some difficulty, use this as a nested multiclip but it’s far easier to just print it out self contained and reimport it.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

[Josh Evans] “Every few months, I have been in the habit of Erasing my entire computer, zero all date, reinstall system, FC, etc.
“

This practice I call Scorched Earth” receives real world support and real world scorn around here. Back in the olden days I’d o this every year or so. Now I don’t even bother with new revs of the OS or major applications. It really is not necessary but it may, in fact, prevent something. The problem is there is no direct causal relationship that can be established. If I have a spontaneous problem with my system there is no way to know if it was caused by my not reformatting drive two years ago. Conversely, Scorched Earthers do not run totally error-free systems or, if they do, there’s no real way to determine that their erase-install is the sole prophylaxis. Further, the time spent ( or wasted) doing all of this preventive maintenance is not justified if you only have to do it once in the event of a major calamity.

Of far more value is running a solid backup strategy.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

In addition to Rafael’s advice…you’re decompressing MPEG2 from a DVD, you’re editing in a different format, and then you’re encoding back to MPEG2. That’s a real time sucker, for sure.
If this is your primary editing/output operation—where you make your money—I’d look into MPEG2-native editors. I think they are all PC-only applications and I only use Macintosh so I don’t know where to send you to look. I do know that fully equipped monster PCs can be had for bloody cheap these days.
Good luck and please come back to let us know what you ended up doing to improve your turnaround times.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Be interesting to see how you pull this off.
Generally, one starts such an ambitious project knowing how it will be finished. So your experience will serve as an example for those who follow.

I’d do this the easy but bombproofway: duplicate the project 50 times, name each copy for the camera, delete all unused cameras from each copy, select all 50, select make movie, push render, go have dinner.

bogiesan