Gareth Randall
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Hi Stephen, nice ad.
[Stephen Smith] “Pay special close attention to the boy jumping on the bed.”
Go on then, tell us how you put that slight bit of movement into his arms and legs 😉
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For some reason I thought you could do that by turning on keyframe recording, playing the project, and then drawing in real time, but it still starts every stroke on frame 1.
Still, it’s pretty quick and easy to slide each stroke to the right start point in the timeline, isn’t it?
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[walter biscardi] “As we deliver programming to both the US and Europe, we have to deal with NTSC to PAL conversion as a regular course of business and yes, the formats are still referred to as PAL and NTSC.”
Seriously? HD formats are referred to as PAL and NTSC?In my experience working in British TV, the terms “PAL” and “NTSC” are *only* used to describe SD video. I’ve never heard 1080i60 referred to as “NTSC”, nor 1080i50 as “PAL” and I’d never expect to.
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[Ross Geddes] “Before i dish out the dollars for Boris…..is it much better than this using Jimmy’s advice?”
The advantage of using Boris is that you can use it to create true 3D objects in Motion. If you wanted to rotate a camera around your logo sphere in 3D space, that’s what you’ve have to use. But if you just need to fake a sphere in 2D, which is what you’re doing in your example clip, then Jimmy’s technique is fine (and free).
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FWIW, Patrick Sheffield’s excellent book “How To Cheat In Motion” (a must-buy IMHO) includes his technique for building a page peel effect from scratch in Motion.
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I don’t think you can assign filters to tracks, only to clips. But it’s easy enough to copy/paste or drag multiple filters from one clip onto as many others as you like. Only takes seconds.
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My 2c, for what it’s worth, is that you should reverse-telecine your 60i/29.97 material to 24P (you use Compressor and/or Cinema Tools can do this – sorry, can’t be more specific as I’ve never actually done it myself) before you start editing.
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Further to my previous post, remember that widescreen footage in the SD domain is actually 4:3 with a different pixel aspect ratio. All the display device does is stretch the 720×576 (or 720×480) image out to fill the 16:9 frame.
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[Steve Eisen] “I believe the damage has been done by creating the DVD.
“Unless I’m misinterpreting something here, NO damage has been done at all. What Leigh has got is perfectly standard anamorphic video, and he’ll damage it by stretching it.
Leigh, all you need to do is change your sequence settings to 16:9 anamorphic (go to Sequence>Settings, and tick the checkbox). Then you should be seeing your footage correctly in widescreen.
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Thanks Dennis, but since this will be an ongoing issue I really need an FCS-only solution. I think I can use Mark’s suggestion in concert with an idea elsewhere on the Cow to use Optical Flow in Motion and then reinterlace in FCP.