James Godwin
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So, i found a workaround that may be better for others.
The project that I am doing requires that we update certain text in parts roughly once a month. In preparation for this I took each layer in the timeline and rendered them out in their own QuickTime movie along with the camera movements and this seemed to work much better.
Since Motion only has the one layer of elements and the camera moving it rendered everything quicker, except one of the layers that has a blur on it, which is where it crashes every time it hits a certain part of the export. But, at least it crashes faster and more predictably with this method.
James Godwin
Post Production Guy
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Final Cut Studio 2
Motion 3.0.1OS X 10.4.10
Radeon X1900 graphics
I found that I can only export up to four frames at a time without getting the orange boxes, and after 3 exports I get them anyway so i save, quit, reopen and re-export and it works. now, i do have a lot of layers, all in 3d space, but nothing this system shouldn’t be able to handle…
James Godwin
Post Production Guy
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Flavio, I don’t think it is your system at all. I have an 8 core macpro and i get many of the same issues. In fact, today i cant even open motion without it crashing. i get the black screen, and my stills in the animation like to turn orange for some reason. maybe i should send everyone my project and you can see if its only my system that is crashing, cause i assure you that this is strictly a software issue.
James Godwin
Post Production Guy
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So, is there a minimum standard for what types/sizes of fonts should be used in DVD compression? Is there a difference from what I am doing and what a studio does when they press DVD’s?
James Godwin
Post Production Guy
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So, the font and size of the logo is not good for DVD compression? The answer is to make it bigger?
James Godwin
Post Production Guy
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Animation Compression
Anamorphic
Lower Field FirstJames Godwin
Post Production Guy
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What field dominance is your timeline and what field dominance are the Motion QTs rendered?
-Lower, but I have tried none and upper as well with the same results
Was your motion project setup to render anamorphic material?
-Yes
Is you FCP timeline setup for anamorphic?
-Yes
DId you compress a 16×9 Mpeg2 in Compressor?
-Yes
James Godwin
Post Production Guy
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The quality is lacking on normal NTSC TV’s as well as in the preview monitor in FCP…
James Godwin
Post Production Guy
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Actually, that made it look worse. Here is an example of what problems I am having..
This is what it looks like on the DVD:
And this is FCP:
And this is the original in Motion:
James Godwin
Post Production Guy
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So, there is really no solution to the problems I’m having, I just have to try to deal with it?
Also, on premiere I haven’t had nearly the amount of issues as with Final Cut, but I am sure that they come up.. I simply like the way that all the Adobe prducts talk to each other..