Jason Diebler
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It could also look like that during playback if the background for the Canvas is set to white instead of black. There is nothing wrong with your video if that’s the case.
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Well college ain’t cheap these days – 4 years film/broadcast for a bachelors, 3 years film/electronic media for an MFA certificate, which allows me to teach at the university level. The way I look at it, if the video biz gets tough down the road, I have a second career option – and I enjoy teaching. It’s a pricey avenue to go down, but I’m already making twice as much as I would have expected just a few years out of school… education is an investment, not wasted money.
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I have had some success with Primatte Keyer Pro by Red Giant – better than FCP, Motion and AE plugins I was trying to work with for green screen keying. It’s also extremely user friendly.
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There are also some cool retiming options in Motion you should play with.
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Is it not playing? Or do you mean you hear no sound on those tracks? Some codecs allow 4 tracks of audio vs 2, but that doesn’t mean sound is always assigned to all 4 channels – 2 of the tracks might be empty – take a look at your waveform and see. Also make sure nothing is muted, soloed, potted down, etc. If you look at your audio mixer, you can see your output levels.
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There’s a scene in “American History X” where you can see the entire film crew silhouetted in shadow… it seems so blatantly obvious that I wonder if it was even a mistake.
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Are you roundtripping the motn project? Are your Motion/FCP project settings the same (resolution/frame rate)? Are you using cohesive versions FCP 6, Motion 3? Done all your Pro App updates?
Try creating a slug in FCP, same time duration as your current motn clip, send to motn project, copy your layers from the original motn project into the new “roundtripped” project, save, and see if that works…
If it still gives you issues, consider exporting Animation + Lossless from Motion and import into FCP.
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“The Spirit” was just out in theaters (similar to Sin City).
UFC commercials use this.
One of those Zales or Kay or Jared’s (one of those jewelry companies) commercial used it.
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I would also defend film school. I spent way more than 60k (maybe twice that) on 7 years of film/broadcast schooling in total. But I also took the approach of “get as many internships as possible” during that time. I knew I wasn’t getting paid, but my resume and reel were building and experience is worth gold. On the plus side, you do meet people and find connections, and can learn a lot from your professors (I’ve had the privilege of learning from and working with Oscar & Emmy winners, a top iMax producer, and many other skilled professionals). Sure I could have just simply pursued a trade without schooling and saved my money. I probably would have become very strong at one particular niche of the field (which is fine), whereas school offered me a well-rounded assortment of skills. In the end, finding jobs was easier for me because I acquired a handful of marketable skills. If one is convinced that they’re only an editor, they may be missing out on other important jobs to be filled in the industry and opportunities to expand their knowledge and marketability.
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I had a professor in film school who won an Academy Award for sound design who once said that there is a psychology to the J cut…
Typically, when someone speaks, you first hear, then you look and pay attention. Its the natural way our senses lead us. Hear first, then look.