Gary Oberbrunner
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Hi Sebastian; please email us at support@genarts.com and we’ll help you out. There can be some issues with Sapphire v1 on CS3 and Vista which are improved with version 2, but we can help you get it straightened out.
— Gary
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I believe you can take the 1:1 media over; the alpha channel will be 1:1 too, and the offline bg track shouldn’t be involved at all.
— Gary
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Hi, Roy. Any effect that applies to a title or key replaces the Avid title effect; it’s the only way that can work on an Avid. This is because the Avid title always composites over the bg clip, so it has to be replaced if you’re going to apply effects only to the title and not the bg.
That means that there’s no way to recreate the title once you’ve replaced it; it’s just a couple of clips at that point (RGB and the alpha matte). You can save a copy of the title in your bin and recreate it in the online, and then replace the footage or reapply the title effects, or you could just create online-quality title footage in the offline if that’s possible.
Hope that’s helpful;
— Gary Oberbrunner
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No problem. On Avid, just open the Crop/Transform control group, and adjust the Crop Left/Top/Right/Bottom controls to remove the black edges. Of course 1/4 of the screen is a lot of shaking!
— Gary
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Sure, Carl: just turn Z Dist to 0.99 or so (just a little less than 1) to zoom in a little bit. If you’re on Avid, you can use the crop/transform controls to crop out the black edges instead.
— Gary
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Sapphire also has Blur Motion Curves; set its Mode to Blur Only, then just add keyframes and drag the Transform widget to follow your object and it’ll automatically add the proper motion blur. This works if the object translates (shift), rotates and/or zooms. Just make sure to set keyframes so the transform widget moves along with the object.
Of course you have to do this on a keyed foreground or the background will get motion blurred too. That can get a little complex on an Avid but it can certainly be done. Let me know if you’re interested in more details.
— Gary
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Hi Carl. Like Grinner said, turn up the frequency so it shakes a lot faster (that’ll give you the fast vibrating look), and turn down the amplitude (that’ll make it less violent). You may also like the look better if you turn on motion blur (either quick or “yes” will look better in your case).
Another thing to get a more realistic vibration look is to turn the Tilt Rand Amp down to zero since you probably don’t want any tilting. Lastly, you could consider turning the Wave amps up and the Rand amps down. This will give a more regular, less random, vibrating action; adjust to suit your taste.
hope that helps!
— Gary
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Hi Richard — I’m biased of course, but I think you should try the free trial version and see what you think. Feel free to ask here or at support@genarts.com if you have any questions!
— Gary (from GenArts)
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Yup, just precomp it and then apply the edge rays.
— Gary
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Hi Richie; FilmEffect shouldn’t cause flicker. It does increase contrast, so if there’s a subtle flicker in the source it may enhance it. The emboss effects, because they look at the edges, can also enhance tiny flickers in the source, or turn tiny shaking motions into brightness flickers. Try it without the emboss and see if the flicker goes away.
If you’d like to email me a short sequence (before & after) I’ll be happy to take a look at it. Email it to support@genarts.com.
hope that helps;
— Gary Oberbrunner