[Jeff Greenberg]

You really can’t export synthetic items to a tape format that is anything other than uncompressed. Premiere can’t really export these elements (how do you handle the alpha channel?)

No for these, the best way to handle it, is to backup to CD/DVD/Hard Drives.

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

If you’re going to ask a technical question, include the:
CPU, System version, ram and video card.
Version of the Proapps
Version of QT

If you’re going to ask a workflow question,
Know what format you’ve captured…
and what format you’re going to deliver

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Masks? Not like AE, no. Special effects? Yes, there’s an effects tabs with filters. Do you mean a specific effect?

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

It’s not a problem with the settings.

Apple has optimized FCP to use specific codecs for editing, and at that size, Photojpeg isn’t one of them. You’ll get nothing that’s RT. If you upgraded to FCP 6, you could drop this into a pro-res timeline, and it’d playback just fine/give you RT effects.

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Unlike AE (are you an AE guy?) – Motion blur is an all or nothing deal.

Project properties, permit you to adjust it.

There’s also a motion blur filter, which I guess you could use on specific objects.

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Two ideas.

One make it a template in Motion. Then you can just build lots of them directly in motion.

Second, dont’ want to make a template? Ok, open a copy of the project, drag (from the file browser) a new photo over an existing one (in the layers stack), it’ll show a curved replace arrow. Save and repeat.

Third, this is a major ability of the new pro apps to save a template and just replace parts of it in FCP.

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Yes, front row makes it easy.

It’s likely that if it was rendered into h.264 it’d be best (for HD). I’d suggest something like visualhub which has a trial.

Also, try downloading perian, (if you’ve converted it to divx.)

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Actually, if you rename both the project and the project setting file, this should work.

Bins are a different story, as they have unique IDs.

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

The problem you might run into is that you might want to capture to an external drive.

If you attach an external drive, you’ll likely have capture problems (you really need to plug in your drives to a different bus – not to just another firewire port.)

The MBP has the express card slot – so you could use either SATA or another firewire card.

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Jeff G
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[Jeff Greenberg]

Stephanie,

On the mac, Avid uses iDVD. If you want, export the video (as QT ref…)…

Drop it in iDVD. Set the video to be the First Play item. Then when your client puts in the video, it’ll just play.

Best,

Jeff

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Jeff G
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