[David Eells]

My take on this is that the challenges are more along the lines of keeping the camera rock solid, keeping your lighting consistent, and controlling your shadows. If you do all that, the dissolving in and out is easy stuff. You could do it in After Effects, but it might be quicker and easier in an NLE.

Hope that helps.

[David Eells]

My two cents –

I’m doing motion graphics work for a film that’s being done in FCP, and I’ve been running export tests. I’m finding that exporting from AE to DV codec gives a noticeably degraded result versus rendering to Animation and letting FCP render in the timeline. Don’t know why, don’t think it’s right, but I’m getting fairly consistent results.

[David Eells]

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[David Eells]

Perhaps the display preferences? Esp. if you have more than one monitor, and/or a line monitor …

[David Eells]

Steve

I have a DP1.8 running 6.5 on 10.3.9. When I try this the “Skip existing files” option is not available. ???

[David Eells]

Yes. 8 rams slots. PCI-X. Now what?

[David Eells]

Kristian –

Yes, I ran the uninstall tool before installing the 4.8.1 drivers.

Olivier –

My recollection is yes, I have PCI-X, but it’s not clear from the “About this Mac” dropdown, so I’m not completely sure.

[David Eells]

OK, so I’ve created a new account and everything is fine there. So do I just abandon the other user account, carefully constructed over many months? Or can I fix this in my preferred user?

Let me stress again that it’s the broadcast monitor that can’t scrub – the viewer window itself works correctly. That’s why I’m posting here in the Blackmagic forum.

[David Eells]

…and I’ve installed the 4.8.1 Black Magic driver

[David Eells]

Thanks, but it’s not that.

Also, since my first post, I’ve also reverted to QT 6.5 from 7.0.2 and re-installed FCD 4.5. Still no joy.