[Glenn Sakatch]

Interesting, You are correct, I open a file in photoshop, and save it as a psd and motion doesn’t have a problem. I am so used to exporting tif sequences from the animation programs…but I see it will do psd and psd layered. Guess I’ll have to change my workflow

Thanks

[Glenn Sakatch]

Thanks for the idea. My camera records to hard drive, but I figured out the opposite works. I recorded to hard drive, through the camera I copied to an 8 gig SD card. Copied the SD “private” folder to my Mac in a folder labeled according to the event. Log and transfer reads this folder just fine. I guess the cameras internal copy program is recreating the folder structure as it copies the files across. Its one more step (copying to SD Card) but allows me to not have to empty the camera between each shoot, and allows a backup of native format that log and transfer can read.

[Glenn Sakatch]

Pedro, the idea they are trying to tell you is to build a timeline with a different layer for each photo.
6 photos = 6 layers. Your final timeline would start out looking like a staircase, where layer 1’s content ends, layer 2’s contents start, and so on. Then if you want to swap 2 and 6, you simply drag 2s content down its section to where 6 starts, and you drag 6’s content the other way to where 2 used to start.

I would also suggest playing with drop zones. Depending your your layout, a different drop zone for each photo can be easily changed from 1 photo to another.

You could also go into your media managment tab, and call up photo 2, and tell the program to use the file for photo 6 here instead.

Hope this helps.

[Glenn Sakatch]

I just created (using a template setting) a 1080i 60 project. Added some footage, and built a quick lower third using a generator, a rectangular mask, blur filter and colorize filter. I then added some text, and added a cheesy behavour to it.

I then created a new project, custom setting, 1080…23.98. Moved it to my other screen.

Went back to first project, copied all my groups, went to my 23.98 project, hit paste, and everything came in…all footage, filters and behaviours.

Using Motion 3.02

[Glenn Sakatch]

I wonder if you set motion to 10 bit or 32 bit depth if that would help.

[Glenn Sakatch]

I just did a quick test, and found the same problem, although not as severe as what you are probably seeing. My source shot was not overexposed, but my not have been broadcast safe, and i’ll bet thats the problem. Could it be Motion is clipping your shot? Check out your original on a waveform, or in color, and check out your resulting image. I bet Motion is clipping the shot. You may have to try to lower your whites before you spit it to motion.

[Glenn Sakatch]

I’m a little confused. There is a matte button right on the main tool window, right next to the shape creator button. I use it all the time for garbage mattes.

[Glenn Sakatch]

The first time you delete, you are removing the audio mix setting you added…even if you boosted the volume to the source clip before you started editing.

Another way to do that is to turn on your waveform view (sample plot) and you can visually see on each track where you need to do your add edits.

[Glenn Sakatch]

I can’t honestly think if any of our DVDs have been checked to see it the captioning comes across on it. But I think you may be over thinking this.
If it was me, I would take a 2 min section of an old master on tape, with captioning already embedded, mpeg it, and burn it to dvd with no special settings. Play it back on a tv and turn on captioning, to see it it still comes across. The only question is whether the mpeg compression will bugger up the captioning. It works on VHS, so It might work on DVD. Either way, shouldn’t cost too much money or time.

After that, just get the captioning house to make you a CC’d master as you have done in the past, and proceed as though the captioning wasn’t even part of the process.