[John Doggett-williams]

Great that clears that one up. One last really basic question, is there a shortcut to toggle between projects?

John doggett-williams

[John Doggett-williams]

thanks Mark, I’m still getting the hang of it. Option dragging still isn’t as efficient as exporting from FCP is it? For example my media is 7 minutes long and contains 3 10seconds soundbites I need, that’s a lot of option dragging to do each time (but I’ll survive). Is it better to export the bits I need directly from FCP and once in Motion copy and past into the template I want to use?

John doggett-williams

[John Doggett-williams]

Wish I had the answer too. I have a similiar problem with a soundbite (10 seconds long) I want to put in a drop zone – the interview (media) is 7 minutes long. Is there a simple way to trim it in Motion or do I really have to export it from FCP?

Cheers,

John doggett-williams

[John Doggett-williams]

thanks Jerry

John doggett-williams

[John Doggett-williams]

To transfer HDV files to Dv do you have to recapture them? Or is it done in something like Compressor or mpeg streamclip?

John doggett-williams

[John Doggett-williams]

Don’t know if this helps and there’s no doubt a better way but if the markers are listed on the source clip in the browser, open the list (click the triangle to the left of the clip)and just take a photo of the screen (I use Grab, it should be in your apps). You can then either just print that out or do what I do which is paste it into a word doc, crop and print. If the markers are in you your sequence right click the ruler which will reveal at least the marker names, I then take a Grab shot of that. Good luck

John doggett-williams

[John Doggett-williams]

I’ve got a similiar issue with my HDV Motion 4 project. I’ve got a mac pro quad core 2.26ghz with 6 gig. The sequence I exported from FCP to motion has about 9 tracks of overlay and is about 1 min15 seconds long (sequence settings was same as the video format 1080/50i). I just wanted to use the optical flow to smooth FCP clunky slomo’s. So if I’ve got your advice right Mark I should export it to Motion at a low res?

Also Mark, I’m working my work through your Motion 4 book – it’s great.

Ta,

John

John doggett-williams

[John Doggett-williams]

Hi,

My HDV footage (1080/50i) exported to Motion 4 from an FCP sequence (settings also 1080/50i) goes black and/or stutters- I tried deinterlacing it in Motion and it just make it worse. Audio plays back fine. I”ve got a quad core 2.26 Mac Pro with 6 gig of ram. Any ideas? I’m going nuts.

Thanks,

John

John doggett-williams

[John Doggett-williams]

Hi Juan,

Did you sort out the problem? I’m having similiar experiences, my HDV footage from Final Cut Pro just won’t play normally and when I applied a filter it just went black.

John doggett-williams

[John Doggett-williams]

I followed your instructions and it nearly worked, but think I became a bit confused by what what you mean when you say set up an empty text generator? Can you give an example please?

John doggett-williams