[David Roth weiss]

QT 10 sucks… just don’t gauge your color using it and you’ll be fine.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Thanks for correcting me Simon, that is exactly what I meant to write.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Try Shift >arrow down or Shift>arrow up

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

As we’ve now all agreed, unless you planned for this and shot the actors against a green screen, you will have to rotoscope them in a second instance of your clip, and any movement of those characters will require lots of frame by frame adjustments, which will be very difficult for anyone who is new to roto work.

When you see this work in a commercial it’s typically preplanned and the foreground shot separately from the background, which makes this type of stuff much less complicated in post.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

It was a bit tough interpreting the original post… so nobody is keeping score… And, there is so much detail work in everything all of us do that we’re all constantly looking for more efficienct ways to accomplish things… if that’s lazy then I’m certainly guilty.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

After reading the original post several times, and reading both of your responses, I think Tero may actually have gotten the gist of the question. I think the original poster would like to have his text element move behind, ir from behind more likely, one element in his live video, i.e. the title moves out from behind one of the foreground trees in the forest.

If that is the correct interpretation, then Tero is correct, in that rotoscoping an existing tree on a second instance of the primary clip may be the solution… of course, one could also roto an tree from another shot and add that as a separate layer; or, one could also purchase trees on a transparent background from a stock footage or VFX company.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

They did change the interface a few months back.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

If they don’t play prior to transcoding that would indicate an issue. It could be the MP3 audio, or could be the AVI wrapper.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

You really need to provide more info Bobby… Precise specs of the AVIs and ProRes files might help, as well as a screenshot of your Streamclip settings…

Also, try transcoding to DVCpro as a test… Maybe the AVIs have some issues and this would rule out ProRes issues.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Since you have a guide track on each clip Premiere can sync your video to the master music track automatically via the waveform without any outboard software such as Pluraleyes. Search the help feature for instructions or search YouTube for a tutorial.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.