Eli Hollander
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I sort of know what you mean Don. Just a few days ago I tried to set four rectangles to converge (move) from off-screen space to a quad split screen (I just used generated color clips to set it up), and then hold. I found that one of the rectangles was not “in sync” with the others and also had a wave-like motion, even though the numerical values were the same for all four layers (and the “smooth” vs. “linear” was also the same.
I spent hours re-doing to see if I did something wrong… finally, somehow, it worked. I suspect that there are some bugs in the keyframes implementation.
I will have to try your “extra keyframe” bizarre solution to see if it helps.
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In an event, call it, say, “Titles,” create a blank compound clip called, let’s say, “Titles ‘Bin'”. In your project create titles. Copy them. Double click on the empty compound clip “Titles ‘Bin'” and lay down some GAP and paste the title over the gap clip. Keep adding (copying and pasting) all sorts of titles and title templates you are happy with to the “Titles Bin” compound clip, placing them over a gap clip.
You can give your titles descriptive names, then in the Timeline Index you can filter out everything but “titles”, and you can find and select the title you need and copy it back into a project.
You can create different compound clips in the “Titles” event earmarked for different style titles.
Voila: you now have a titles bin in a “Titles” event that you can bring to any project and has all your favorite titles with your favorite settings.
Done.
(There is one puzzling thing, and I think it’s a bug: when copying/pasting a title, the font or weight seems to get slightly messed up, but it’s easy to fix. Effects applied to the titles stay with the titles, however.)
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Mikael,
Judging from your Foolcut Vimeo video, your Engliah has gotten much better:-)
But seriously, your Foolcut FCPx to AE is very clever and brilliant–something that the “big guys” haven’t been able to do. Congratulations.
Eli
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Brendan,
You continue to amaze me with your ingenuity and generosity. Thank you. -
This trick also works with the “Range Selection” and “Razor” tools too.
Eli
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Robbert-Jan,
Beautifully designed and realized and complex achievement… Thank you.
I will just have to devise a way to use this effect on a documentary I am making (with credit to you)–it could be effective for creating a self-reflexive visual texture.
Thanks again.
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Alex… I was just going to write you that I discovered the “delay” sliders… (I am laughing)…
Thanks again!
Eli
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Alex, thank you… this is brilliant… just what I was looking for. Nice OSC, and the ease in/out is great!
One question/request: can you build in a delay control for the start of the effect (within the clip) and a control for ending the move before the end of the clip? Can size be also an OSC (but that is not very important)?
Again, thank you very much.
Eli
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Dave, I will chime in with a little different take…
DV tape is very fragile, and magnetic tape, in general, is not a long term stable medium; at some point, information on magnetic tape dissipates, and the emulsion can start flaking off. Hard drives are also not necessarily stable, but the are getting cheap enough to be able to store information in duplicate. It is still probably a good idea to start the drives every few years to keep the bearings lubed.
Another option is to use archival DVDs (specially designed DVDs that will have a long shelf life. Ordinary DVDs also are a short lived medium. I don’t know if they make archival blue ray media).
The best format (codec) for storage if your original codec is DV is the native DV format. ProRes is not going to “improve” your quality and ProRes takes up much more disk space than the native DV format. When you import DV into FCP (and I agree that FCP 7 is the better choice), DV is literally and faithfully copied from your tape to your disk (staying in the same codec/format) and there is NO degradation because there is no transcoding when you bring DV into FCP.
Good luck.
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Tony, if the majority of your clips are 30p (and they play well enough for you), why not just transcode your 60p material?