[Jack Sewell]

that’s smelly poo pants. Sometimes you need to overlap them to get the keying right! Can you recommend a really amazing-mega keyer plug-in please?

Got you DVD by the way. The stuff you do outside of the tutorials as well in the tutorials themselves gave me a lot of ideas! 🙂

[Jack Sewell]

Thank you Juha!

That all sounds like gold dust! I tried making a quicktime movie of the slowed down one, then adding the vignettes, filtering and defocus. It seemed to be the defocus that was causing the flickering. Then when I compositied that with the filtered part, it went nuts.

But, yeah, that shift fields thing sounds cool. Will give it a go.

Thanks so much for your post! 🙂

[Jack Sewell]

If it worked once then it might be a crazy nonsense bug from the firey pits of bloody hell. I’ve just had to work around something similar. Unfortunately, all programmes have them……….

good luck

[Jack Sewell]

it sounds like a sample rate issue. The audio has to be at the same sample rate as the timeline. This is typically 48Khz, whereas most audio is sampled at 44.1Khz. So just stick the audio into ProTools or something and bounce it out to 40Khz or whatever the timeline is set to.

Hope that helps………

[Jack Sewell]

It’s amazing what I don’t know about this programme! 🙂 Thanks!! 🙂

[Jack Sewell]

hi,

I posted the link, I’m assuming you can get to the page ok. The show is Shed Media, and the time is 1:54 – 2:05.

hope that’s ok.

thanks

[Jack Sewell]

Hi Tom,

I just wanted to thank you for all your help and ideas in regard to this problem. Have posted the final results and am absolutely delighted with them! 🙂

I tried changing the time-line settings to HDV 1080i, and then created some 1920 x 1080 text in Motion, as you suggested. This sorted the problem perfectly!

Although, I couldn’t preview the results on my monitor cos it was all in HD and I didn’t have the hardware for it. Although, this didn’t matter as I had laid the final edit for the montage in 720 res, so it was already set in stone and I knew how it was going to look.

This was then bounced to a 1080i quicktime movie, placed on the time-line. Rendered (tea-break!), and then sent to Compressor with the 6.2Mps 90-min DVD, settings.

And it looks fantistic!! Thanks so much for your help. It’s people like yourself that make these forums what they are.

Best wishes,
Jack

[Jack Sewell]

ahh, ok, nice one.

I’ve got a Dual 2GHz G5 Power PC, 5.5Gb RAM, I think the machine has PCI slots as opposed to PCIe.

What would be a cheap and effective method to go HD?

thanks for your help.

[Jack Sewell]

Good stuff,

I rekon that’ll sort the problem. Thanks! 🙂

[Jack Sewell]

Hi David,

thanks for you comments. I didn’t post the original PNG because it would’ve been interlaced and so the distortion would have been exaggerated further. I had to wack it into Photoshop to de-interlace it.

I hear about the white saturation, I put a glow effect on the text in Motion, but yeah, it could do with a little dumbing down.

However, the jagged edge thing was happening before I applied any effects at all. Am making the text in Photoshop (using a 720×576 canvas to avoid any scaling that FCP has to do on the fly) then importing it back into FCP as a PNG. However, I’m still getting a little distortion as you can see on the pic. Will adjust the white on the text and do another post.

cheers