Jason Diebler
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My only thought was maybe its a bit depth conflict. Open in Photoshop go to Image>Mode and see if another setting works better. RGB 8 or 16… just something to double-check and try.
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What type of image?
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In FCP, make sure your sequence settings match your Motion proj., and in Sequence Settings set Video Processing-Motion Filtering Quality and Render Control-Quality to Best.
If that doesn’t work, do what Zak said. Copy and paste into new project.
If you have layers that can be flattened, like a 2D motion background for instance, you could export layer by layer, and piece it back together in more digestible chunks for Motion to handle… so Motion isn’t processing 10 glow filters on a layer that could’ve been pre-flattened into a movie.
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Flip 4 Mac w/ WMV components for use w/ QuickTime or MPEG Streamclip
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Just curious, does QuicKeys go above and beyond what Automator can do?
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What if you use the same behavior, but offset the timing of the layer?
So if the wave cycles on Layer 1 every two seconds (1 second for peak, 1 second for trough), move Layer 2 back one second.
Ex: (Assuming two-second wave cycle) Layer 1 starts at 0:00, Layer 2 starts at -1:00.
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Your university’s lab should be encouraged to change its practice, and allow custom student accounts, so, like you said, projects are protected from abusive users. These accounts could be wiped each semester. Simple documentation would keep that in order. That makes 100% sense.
Technology fees should be included in your course description, that each student should be required to purchase a hard drive for personal use with their media, that way 250 accounts don’t bog down the computers.
My 2 cents about what is offered in the course… I don’t think it’s fair to a student who pays high tuition fees, signing up for a university level class to be short-changed with having to learn a free or low-end editing system, one that is not applicable to them in the real world — especially when considering the competition in their job market learned Final Cut or Avid at their respective film programs and are taking their next potential job. That’s fine for a high school class, but it’s not fair to a university level student, who will soon be one of the 12% unemployed in this country. The Dean of your School of Communication should raise the issue with the Academic Provost, that more funding be allocated to give these students the proper tools to learn their trade. If I went to an Art School and was handed a 12pack of Crayola’s I’d be pissed.
But since you say the premise of the class is to teach simple storytelling, here are 2 exercises that are cheap (but not worthless).
– In-camera editing. Let them take a camera and shoot a story, with no re-takes. Have them storyboard first.
– Give them an assignment to analyze their favorite movie. Have them count the number of cuts in a particular scene, describe the types of shots, etc.“The deepest blues are black” – Foo Fighters
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Haha… and it was an Andy Neil tutorial, so James, you’re in good company!
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Probably not the type of wave that you’re going for, but I found this tutorial to be very helpful…
https://www.timesavertutorials.com/heart_rate.html
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I’m glad that worked. It looks really cool. Is that crowd by chance the Verizon network? 🙂
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