[Greg Nosaty]

[Mark Dannunzio] “Is there an easy solution to this that I am missing? “

In Motion go to the Edit menu>Project Properties> and select Background Transparent.

cheers,
Greg Nosaty

Cinemontage Productions Inc

[Greg Nosaty]

[Wayne Carey] “Have you trashed your prefs and reset your permissions?”

Yes, regularly.

I’ve rebuilt my system from the ground up twice, with Tiger, since july. The only thing I haven’t tried is installing the latest Kona 3 drivers. I’m afraid that 6.0.2 may not like it and spit out all my renders and I don’t have time to re-render.

cheers,
Greg Nosaty

Cinemontage Productions Inc

[Greg Nosaty]

6.0.2 has fixed nothing.

My MacPro quad system still drops render files whenever it feels like it. Last week it took me 24 hours to re-render a 95 minute show. Yesterday it dropped the renders for the first act, right before my eyes, when I updated a Motion graphic.

I’m also now experiencing FCP unexpectedly quitting without even the ” report to Apple” window. I setup a render, walk out of the room and come back to see my desktop.

cheers,
Greg Nosaty

Cinemontage Productions Inc

[Greg Nosaty]

[Jason P] “BTW, I can wholeheartedly recommend DH_Subtitle filter from Digital Heaven, though it may be a bit late now you’ve done a lot in title tool. “

I second that. Digital Heaven Subtitle tool is easy too use and easy to read.

cheers,
Greg Nosaty

Cinemontage Productions Inc

[Greg Nosaty]

[Frederic Bohbot] “For some reason all titles need to be
rendered after a certain point on the timeline”

I had the same problem this week. You have maxed out your real time buffer. It seems to be proportionate to the ram and processor speed, i.e. the more you got, the more you get! You could try to play with your “RT” setting but your best bet is to render some of your sub-titles.

Just for fun render some of the “green” subtitles and watch what happens to the “red” ones. I bet some of the red batch will turn to realtime.

cheers,
Greg Nosaty

Cinemontage Productions Inc

[Greg Nosaty]

[Shane Ross] “What does the new cat give you that you MUST have? Really no reason to go there. Neat on a personal computer, but not essential on an editing one. “

Well I was kinda hoping that the 64bit computing might speed up painfully slow renders and processing. And maybe an improves final cut suite would be more stable reliable and access a little more than 2.5 GB of ram.

cheers,
Greg Nosaty

Cinemontage Productions Inc

[Greg Nosaty]

[bogiesan] “If you need captioning, Digital Heaven’s great little subtitler is not your answer. “

The original question was about subtitling (open captioning) not closed captioning. I know the difference, do you?

DH Subtitle is a great tool for subtitling. if you need closed captioning I would hire a captioning service, every major city has one.

cheers,
Greg Nosaty

Cinemontage Productions Inc

[Greg Nosaty]

[Wayne Carey] “Even easier…

Look at Digital Heaven for a plugin called DH Subtitle”

I agree. It’s easy to use, has a few parameters that you can edit and renders pretty quickly. I’ve used it on a half a dozen broadcast shows and had no complaints.

cheers,
Greg Nosaty

Cinemontage Productions Inc

[Greg Nosaty]

[Chris Monette] “Does anyone out there have any idea what is going on? “

FCP integration with Motion is terrible. One work around I found that speeds things up is to export an uncompressed QT Animation and manually import and place it into your FCP sequence. The rendering takes about one quarter of the time it take to render a Motion file.

Im hoping that the latest updates for FCS will fix some of the many integration and memory issues but I’m not holding my breath.

cheers,
Greg Nosaty

Cinemontage Productions Inc

[Greg Nosaty]

[farmeditor] “Has anyone used the Tascam 1082 firewire control surface/audio interface with Final Cut Pro or Studio? “

I’ve had a 1082 for a year now and I think it’s an amazing tool for the price. You can mix 8 channels at a time. it’s very convenient to have analog input for narration or other acoustic devices. The transport controls work in FCP and Soundtrack and although I haven’t tried it the surface is supposed to interface with Motion and Logic as well.

I wish I could have a little more control over the midi assignments for each fader or button. Kinda like keyboard or window layouts in FCP.

The only problem has been that Apple screwed up the Firewire Audio driver in a recent revision. It took a couple of days to find out why all my firewire audio devices were working and discovered that you have to roll back to version 2.0.1.

Buy one you won’t regret it, especially if you find one for half price like I did.

cheers,
Greg Nosaty

Cinemontage Productions Inc