[Jason Brown]

Jose, I can’t believe this…I NEVER knew this was possible…people ask me this all the time…sure as dave mentioned, maybe there are some things not supported…but man, to be able to access at least SOME of the animation in previous versions is huge…nice post!

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I needed to move them Temporaly…I already did that…just selected them and used the keyboard shortcut alt+pgDn it moves them one frame @ a time…it worked.

The bigger issue is this:

I’m trying to have several hexagons and rotate them 180 degrees. I want the backs of them to be white and I’ll use this as a matte transition precomped as black/white.

I did this with one simple hexagon…set the anchor point to +.0001 – rotated it…duplicated it…set the anchor point of the duplicated one to -.0001 (changed color to white).

This worked beautifully with one hexagon. For some reason, when I put all of them together and flip them…they change (cut) to white before the keyframed rotation even starts…I’m a bit confused as to why this is happening.

Here’s a screenshot to give you an idea of what I’m trying to do.

https://www.jbtwist.com/CC/hexagon.jpg

I’ve never used card dance or wipe…I played with them for about 1 hour, and I couldn’t get them to do what I wanted…

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I’m in FCP7…the Qmaster file I have is from that install disk for version 7. I have the file, if it’s not an issue to share it, I’d gladly share it with you, there aren’t any install codes or anything…so I believe it is *shareable*.

I posted in the FCP forum here on the cow and here’s a link to what Shane Ross wrote…he’s amazing, very knowledgeable about FCP…

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1059335

[Jason Brown]

Doesn’t the AppleQmasterNode.mpkg file included on the FCP install disk include the ProRes codecs? I was told it did and to provide that install file to anyone who needed to interpret ProRes files. I believe I read that here on the Cow.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

There are other added improvements in FCS3…markers in FCP are much better…

I only worked on 6.5 for a month or two before 7 came out, so I was a lucky one!

As far as settings in AE, I don’t tweak much…your composition settings need to match your sequence settings, and ProRes just seems to carry them over. I don’t change settings within the codec ever.

One thing to look out for, a well discussed topic here on the Cow is when working in 24p…AE uses the correct 23.976, whereas FCP truncates it to 23.98…rendering to 23.98 in AE will cause problems in FCP.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

And adding to Dave’s comments…for a long time ProRes was limited by not being able to carry an alpha channel. I was using Red Giant’s microcosm codec. Others would use Animation. Well, with the advent of FCS3 they unveiled a new ProRes 4444 codec which is now ProRes with an alpha…in my opinion, that codec is an absolute reason to upgrade…you can now have real-time keys of AE renders…I don’t think that was possible in Final Cut before this codec.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Hey Russell,

I came across your post on a search. Are you using this workflow?

I’d love to propose this to my company as an option for sit down or semi-lock down situations…my thought – HDMI out of 5D to KiPro, Audio into mixer, mixer out to KiPro? Capture to an edit friendly format…sounds like a great idea.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

You missed 4:

4) Unbalanced audio running to a mixer through a cable running over/under other power/video/audio cables. Running unbalanced audio lines in a pro setup (rack mounted equipment with bundled wiring) is inherently going to have susceptibility to external noise That’s what balanced audio is for. I’ve found people who have none, some, and alot of noise in this same connection.

All the equipment is new. New MacPro – New mixer – New cables…not to say that new equipment can’t have issues, but it’s not the connections.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Just going to keep the post going! 🙂

I never used the words “deal breaker”

I just said that I found a *good reason* in my setup and my desired output to choose one over the other. The Max technology is a good choice to choose Matrox IMHO…but not everyone may use that feature if h264 isn’t your destination format.

I basically posted this because I spent a couple weeks researching the two I/O devices and it was down to Matrox vs Kona…I chose Matrox because of the ability to move from Desktop to Laptop…and it was relatively small.

Now that I found this additional feature, I wanted to make everyone (who was researching – like me) aware of another option that Kona offers that Matrox doesn’t.

I really didn’t think it would be this big of a discussion… 🙂

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

wait a minute…I figured it out.

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