[John Fishback]

Perhaps you can do your cropping and sizing, then put that clip inside a Compound Clip and apply your blend to that. Not at my computer so can’t try that out.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz, 16 GB RAM, OS 10.9.4, QT10.1, Kona 3, Dual Cinema 23, ATI Radeon HD 5870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCP-X 10.1.3, Motion 5.0.7, Compressor 4.0.7
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.3, Motion 4.0.3, Comp 3.5.3, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.3)

Pro Tools HD 10 w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec DSP Monitors, Prima CDQ120 ISDN

[John Fishback]

That sounds fair. It’s been a few years since I commissioned original work, but your cost is consistent with mine. I never paid by the minute, but the end result is in the ballpark. You might save a bit by using a music library, but you’ll spend a lot of time searching for appropriate music.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz, 16 GB RAM, OS 10.9.4, QT10.1, Kona 3, Dual Cinema 23, ATI Radeon HD 5870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCP-X 10.1.3, Motion 5.0.7, Compressor 4.0.7
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.3, Motion 4.0.3, Comp 3.5.3, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.3)

Pro Tools HD 10 w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec DSP Monitors, Prima CDQ120 ISDN

[John Fishback]

What is the frame rate of the video and where is the audio coming from? If from an outside source (i.e. a Pro Tools session) what frame rate was used in the Pro Tools session? While audio doesn’t have a frame rate, DAWs may write the frame rate of the session into the header of the exported sound track. If that frame rate doesn’t match your sequence frame rate, the audio will drift. Sound Devices has a free app called Wave Agent that will allow you to change the audio header to the correct frame rate.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz, 16 GB RAM, OS 10.9.4, QT10.1, Kona 3, Dual Cinema 23, ATI Radeon HD 5870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCP-X 10.1.3, Motion 5.0.7, Compressor 4.0.7
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.3, Motion 4.0.3, Comp 3.5.3, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.3)

Pro Tools HD 10 w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec DSP Monitors, Prima CDQ120 ISDN

[John Fishback]

The only additional thing I’d do is run Disk Warrior.

[John Fishback]

Checkout Killer Tracks and The Music Bed.

[John Fishback]

Checkout Google Maps. I believe they charge for a version you can customize.

[John Fishback]

My BMPCC has done the same since 1.9.2. Never tried the short press and wait. I always held the button until just the first hit of flash and often it started up ok. Sometimes I’d have to try a couple of times. I’ll try the single push and wait tomorrow. Thanks for the hint.

[John Fishback]

James, you removed your post, but I fiddled around in Motion and you can make those dissolves in Motion. For the color dip start with a transition then add a generator between the Transition A and B layers. Then, keyframe an opacity shift from 100% to 0 on the Transition A layer (revealing the color), then add a 100% opacity keyframe to the Generator (you can adjust the length of the hold on color there by where you position the keyframe), go to your out point and take that opacity to 0%. Be sure to Publish the Generator’s color parameter so you can change the color in FCPX. FCPX’s Fade to Color transition allows you to affect more parameter’s and, perhaps, you can also do that in Motion, but I don’t know how.

[John Fishback]

Another thought is you could go into Motion Templates > Effects and create an empty folder called Favorites. Then you could make copies of your favorite effects and place them in that folder. This will also work for titles, transitions & generators. I tried this and it worked. Some effects aren’t in Motion Templates and probably can’t be favorited this way.

[John Fishback]

Here’s one way to create a Favorites category that will appear in Effects. It involves opening the effect in Motion, adjusting it as you wish and saving it to a new Category you create called Favorites. You can also create a Theme so you can see effects, transitions, generators, etc. in the Theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rkql2_aaE4

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