Jason Diebler
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I can’t believe U-Turn made Rocco’s list, that’s great, most people hate that movie… one of my favorites.
My top movie for editing is “Requiem for a Dream” – that movie will give you nightmares, mostly thanks to the startling editing.
Children of Men was great, but I give it props for cinematography – what incredible long takes.
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Are you using the “Modify > Make Freeze Frame” to make your still? If that’s not working like you say, try “Export > Using Quicktime Conversion > Still Image”, import, and see if that works.
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Late response to this thread, but I came across the topic… and yes, it works to nest the clip, no need to export or anything like that.
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I would play with the caustics generator and use blurs and colorizers.
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… I would even email the project file to yourself and see if it opens on another machine (even if the media is not connected), or open Motion first, then open it. Who knows?
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I’m working on a Mac Pro. Trashing the render files would break the render, yes (and/or any change to the nested sequence would also).
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I’ve had hiccups like this too on occasion with nested sequences – sometimes playback is bad, but output ends up fine…
Sometimes if you break the render and re-render and it ends up back to normal.
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Find the Future Media Concepts in Orlando and take their Motion training course, or to save $ buy the Motion 3 book from the Apple Training Series.
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Definitely “No”, do NOT shoot on a black screen. You’ll be keying out all the shadows and dark tones in your color spectrum… that would be a mistake. Shoot green if you have it.
You hit the nail on the head, light your subject “very” well, but also light your green screen evenly and create strong separation with careful lighting. I would read up carefully on this… I don’t have any links to point you to, but Larry Jordan on Lynda.com does a great green screen lighting tutorial… sign-up for a free day pass and check it out.
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I would create the extended “d” in Photoshop… import into Motion, use mask move to reveal the extension…