Jason Diebler
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MPEG Streamclip does a good job with wmv compressions. It will allow you to customize your dimensions. But you may have to crop your image so you don’t distort it.
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Shift+Command+S, Return 🙂 “save as” – what’s the difference?
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You need to color correct, yes. Use your video scopes and try to match the tonal range of your shots across the shadows/blacks, midtones, and highlights/whites. White & black balance so your whites are white and blacks are black. Increase levels and saturation where needed. Color is the appropriate app for this, but FCP color corrector 3-way will do just fine.
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Tom, I suggest using the Primatte Keyer Pro filter inside of Final Cut Pro. When you install this plug-in, you have the choice to designate which program you’d like to run it in… Motion or FCP.
Give it a shot in FCP, I think you’ll be happier. I have it installed in both apps, but I opt to do all of my keying in FCP. For whatever reason, the adjustments are easier inside of FCP as well.
If you’ve already put a lot of time into this, export ProRes 4444 from Motion for now, but try it next time in FCP just for grins.
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Almost all of your attributes are lost when sent to Motion. If you need to maintain the look of your clips, export them (and give yourself head-and-tails handles so you can readjust timing/transitions later if you have to).
Sometimes I duplicate a clip to the layer above, and send the top layer clip to Motion, so that the original clip is not affected and nothing is destroyed. You can always revert to that clip or copy attributes from it.
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Mark Spencer did a tutorial on bringing Photoshop layer styles into Motion on MacBreak Studio… you might be able to find it on his Motion blog. https://www.applemotion.net/
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Here’s an Apple Online Seminar on multidisplay.
https://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/videomultidisplay/apple/index.html?s=300
Multidisplay Video Presentations on the Mac
See how to use ProVideoPlayer to create dynamic, multi-screen video presentations that rival the most expensive visual productions? with very little training or investment.
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It won’t work if FCP, QuickTime, Finder, or any other app has the file open when you do this. But if you’re strictly in Motion, you can overwrite (replace) the file.
Photoshop lets you update on the fly, you’re right, it would be cool if Motion did too… but in a way, it assures you don’t accidentally erase over an active file.
Instead of importing double the files and filling up your FCP browser, either 1) close FCP before you make your changes, or 2) make new filenames (ex: filename_b) and reconnect the media (w/out match name). 1st step is the better option, but if you do it the 2nd way, make sure your timing/clip duration is the same so it doesn’t get whacky.
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Aha!
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Andy solved it!