[Glenn Camhi]

Well that’s a bummer. Tinting the thumbnails seems a pretty bad idea. It largely defeats the purpose of having thumbnails for easy clip identification. And the flow of color through a film is a key aspect of storytelling… it’s unfortunate not to be able to do that in the timeline, without discarding all labels in the browser.

But thank you for your speedy answer! Saved more time.

[Glenn Camhi]

Solved. I wasn’t using the best controller card. Now I’m getting 158.4 MB/s write, and 177.1 MB/s read. Phew.
Thanks!

[Glenn Camhi]

Thank you, Bob. I’ll report on what I discover.

BTW, in studying this issue I’ve read many of your posts from the past year or so, and found them quite helpful and clearly written. Thanks.

[Glenn Camhi]

Thanks, the effect worked out pretty well. Tedious, but so it goes. Fortunately it was brief.

[Glenn Camhi]

Got it.. adding keyframes to Directional Blur and playing around with it and perhaps other filters.

Thanks again, Stephen & Zak, I’ll report on how it goes.

[Glenn Camhi]

Thanks Zak. I’ll play with directional. I just need to learn how to alter it by frame vs. a constant, static effect.

Sure wish I could remember what I did the other day that looked good automatically, though.

[Glenn Camhi]

Thanks, Stephen. Can you change the Directional Blur filter on a frame-by-frame basis, to match the jerky motion you’re mimicking with the animated object?

I had another idea, wonder if this feasible: Could I save the animation layer alone as a piece of video, then re-import it into Motion, add the Movement Blur filter to it, then composite it over my video footage again? Is that a crazy workflow?

It seems to me this must be a very common need in Motion — to blur an animated object to match the motion blur in underlying practical footage — and there must be a common workflow.

[Glenn Camhi]

Update: Okay, Motion Blur clearly isn’t my solution here, and it’s not what I mysteriously did to make it work the other day.

I’ll re-pose the question this way:

You have video of a bus speeding by. You use Match Move to track it and add a fake sign to the side of the bus.

Now you want the animated fake sign to blur, to match the blur of the moving bus and thereby blend in realistically. (The footage is handheld so it’s moving in more than one direction, but your tracking is perfect.)

How do you accomplish this blur effect? Adding a Movement Blur filter doesn’t do it, since Motion sees the image as static.

Thank you for any help!

[Glenn Camhi]

Since I got no replies, I went ahead and purchased the LogicKeyboard skin, and got my answer firsthand. I’ll share it for others:

I found it too hard to type with. The much-reduced space between keys, along with the skin’s very soft edges, make it difficult to distinguish between keys without looking. Moreover, the cutouts for the keys aren’t as high as the Apple keyboard’s keys (specifically, the thin Aluminum full keyboard), so it’s a bit hard to distinctly feel the keys at the edges too (spacebar, arrows, Control, Command, etc.).

This may not be much of an issue if you do nothing else while editing. But if you bounce back and forth between Final Cut and anything involving typing, you may find it a challenge. It’s not a quick process of popping it on and off as you switch among applications; it takes a little time to seat it properly around all the keys.

I’m returning it, and getting a dedicated LogicKeyboard keyboard instead. The only advantages to the skin, IMO, are the cheaper price and the dust-protection aspect. (Though a dust-free keyboard isn’t so useful to me if I can’t type on it.)

[Glenn Camhi]

Sorry to revive an old thread, but now I’m in the same market you were.

I like the idea of a skin rather than a new keyboard. I’m just curious how people who’ve been using them a while feel about the *feel* of them — specifically on the newer Apple thin aluminum keyboard, since all keyboards are different. Still enough space between keys? Still a satisfying feel?

Also, in comparing the two brands that seem to be mentioned most often, it looks to me like LogicKeyboard’s may be superior to KB Covers’ (at least in one respect), since the former looks like it has more color-coded graphical keys (note the numbers row).

Top is LogicKeyboard, bottom is KB Covers:

Would love to hear opinions from anyone who has used either or both of these.

Thank you.