Jeff Kirkland
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Not quite sure I get what you mean about the 8 angles surrounding the clip. A screen shot might help.
Have you double-checked your camera and angle assignments in each clip’s metadata using the info panel?
What happens if you manually place the clips on individual angles and then tell FCPX to align them?
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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In the new library, tell FCPX to consolidate the media. That should force it to copy the files.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Do a search in the effects panel to make sure it’s really gone but the fastest way to restore it would be to reinstall FCPX.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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It’s a hard thing to fix but I’ve had success in hiding it with Hawaiki Keyer’s advanced edge tools. You could also try keying the hand seperately so you can be a bit more aggressive with the edges in that area while the motion is faster.
Otherwise, you may have to resort to some roto work.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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The colour of the background can help hide things if the footage was poorly shot and hard to key but overall, it doesn’t matter.
Can I see a few seconds of footage without the key applied?
Looking at the key, it looks like you’ve done something fairly agressive to the edges, hence the black line around their bodies. The fact they’re casting a shadow on the background probably means they were far too close to the green screen when it was shot so there’s going to be a lot of green spill to deal with and that’s certainly not going to help – especially as there doesn’t look to be any edge light to help seperate them from the screen.
Without seeing the original footage my suggestions would be to either use a Keyer that’s more able to deal with camera noise and poor screen to subject contrast. Hawaiki Keyer has a lot of very refined pre-key and edge tools that can get you out of trouble.
Otherwise I’d key multiple layers, so key their bodies on one layer, key their heads on another, maybe even key parts of their hair seperately.
Another thing to remember is that the final cut Keyer can take samples through time as well as within a frame so you can sample the screen and set edge opacity, etc across multiple frames to build the key.
If you want to post a short sample of the unkeyed footage I’m happy to play and see if I can give some more specific advice.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
Apple says it works – DV import via FireWire is still an option according to the FCPX user manual.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
Can we see a sample?
When you say it looks good, that’s looks good when it’s background rendered and playing back in FCPX or just the one frame? A common issue when keying, especially with footage of less than stellar quality, is that a still frame can look great but the other frames aren’t consistent enough for the key to hold once things start moving. Camera noise is probably the #1 cause of this.
Also, what are you outputting as? The lower the quality/ more compressed the codec, the more artefacts you’re going to see when you export it – especially if the key wasn’t that great to start with.
I have no idea about the random flashes but you might try deleting any render files and letting fcpx recreate them. Sometimes they can get corrupted and cause weird random stuff.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Haven’t done this in a long time but far as I know, yes it is still supported. The camera has to be connected and switched on for the input source to be available.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
You didn’t mention where you were selecting the project to export so the my first suggestion would be to select the project in the browser and export it from there rather than having the timeline open. Second option would be to create a new project and copy/paste the existing project to there.
When you open the share window, how long does the info panel say the exported project is going to run? Does it match the actual project?
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Sounds like just the file system has corrupted but that’s often the first symptom of a failing hard drive. Software has gone to read/write some data and because of a failure on the surface of the disk, it couldn’t.
Other first signs are accessing the disk being slow, the disk being reluctant to show up in the Finder, and software mysteriously crashing while using the drive.
You could try something like Disk Warrior to repair the drive but anything you do will run a risk of losing the data. It’s always wise to make a clone of the disk first. Whatever you try, I’d copy everything I can still access to another hard drive asap.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland