Eric Johnson
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Have you tried creating the alpha, key, in motion or after effects?
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Not sure but I’m pretty sure you can do what you want fairly easily in motion. Though the portrait ones will need special attention first.
Actually, if you do what you need to do to the portrait images first, then you could probably use QT Pro or Motion….
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How are you bringing in the material to DVDSP?
Depending on your workflow, there may be some good options for you, though they will entail some rendering, potentially significant rendering.
So first thing, after you’ve cut everything, you may want to create a DV50 timeline, render then export.
This will allow all of your ” animation” to utilize the higher quality codec.From there, bring files into Compressor, and use the DVD setting that fits duration-wise.
Unless you really don’t have the time, I would not suggest leaving the encoding to DVDSP.
Let me know if you need any clarification.
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download this app using this will be much easier than looking for the pref’s.
Though, if you feel like looking, Home/library/preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data/
In the last folder you will find 3 files that look like FCP project files: Final Cut Pro 6.0 Prefs.fcset, Final Cut Pro Obj Cache.fcmch and Final Cut Pro Prof Cache.fcpch.
Delete these. And restart FCP. After FCP is open, empty the trash and reset your FCP settings.
If you download the Digital Rebellion Preference Manager, now is the perfect time to Backup your preferences to make this easier the next time they go bad.
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If not that, trash your prefs. Digital rebellion has a cool app to help with that….
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You could pretty much do everything you want to do by creating you chyrons in motion.
If you do that then you just import the motion project into FCP, then if you need to make changes you do it in motion. Save. Come back to FCP and all instances of the Motion project file in the timeline will reflect your changes.
Other than that, the best way to do what you’re wanting is to use Photoshop/Illustrator and After Effects.
Motion is cheaper (you already have it with FCP) and pretty easy, way more robust than Boris FX.
And there is always Live Type, Motion super lite. Live Type can definitely do everything you are wanting to do. Burt Motion will definitely give you more options.
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I don’t know if this will work, seems far fetched but still plausible, if you have a Kona card (I think a 3 is the one with the Line 21 Blanking, only in most recent firmware and software) and two decks, you may be able to pass through the Kona while using the downstream keyer, This of course depends on the graphic you are using, if it’s a bug then game on.
You will have to futz with the DS keyer settings a bit, I can’t remember the right combo of settings. then plug in a monitor at the end to see if the captioning is maintained.
With the video passing through the Kona it MAY work.
Though it is a long shot. But if you have the gear, then it won’t hurt to try.
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If PAL DV is like NTSC DV (720×480) then the 6 lines that you are missing are just part of DV. (NTSC is 720×486)
As for monitoring, you will have to capture after output and watch it down.
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Does the PC have Quicktime Pro? I would imagine that if you have that on the machine, most any QT .mov will work.
What codec are you working in on the FCP?
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A heads up for the future: In most cases it is better to export the full quicktime native then convert, then it is to convert during your export. Sometimes it’s fine to go out through Compressor (export using compressor) but it is more likely to crash then if you just export native then compress.