John Howarth
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I’ve just discovered this thread through the Apple FCP forum. I’ve recently upgraded to FCP7 from FC6 (call me old-fashioned), and I’m running it on OS10.5.8. The only reason for upgrading anything was to be able to use Pro-Res proxy files, and everything had been working wonderfully with that previous combination so there was never any need to fix anything.
I now find myself with Autosaved projects that are not linked to the media. I tried all Bret Williams’ methods (in a previous post here), but none of that works for me. The suggestion in this thread that using FCP7 on a latest operating system (in 2013) could be the cause, would seem to not be the case, as I am on 10.5. (although as we all know, something did herald the end of FCP7).
Did anyone have, and then solve, this problem?
John
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Another point – the final rendered files from the smaller images I have tried have an unsatisfactory “wriggle” to them during the move. This seems to be caused by low resolution, or fine lines being aliased and having a step effect. This is apparent both on the computer monitor and on a PAL/NTSC monitor.
John
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Thank you Peter for your amazingly swift response. That solves my box shape question – the key here seems to be to use slug rather than an image dragged from the browser. Unfortunately that is not made clear in the included help files. I’m still struggling with the large files – they do not show up at all. Is there a maximum size to the file size that Boris can handle? Also, am I limited to A-B moves? I need to do A-B-C moves occasionally.
Regards,
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I am now evaluating Pan and Zoom in FCP. It is perplexing. I have some horizontal panoramic images. These images will import into FCP with no problems. I can create a pan and zoom move on them within FCP, but of course also with the limitations of FCP moves. When rendered within FCP, apart from the lumpy starts and stops, the quality is very good. When imported into P&Z, I seem to be stuck with choosing Position A and Position B at the same box proportions as the original image. In other words, if my original image is in the proportion of 5:1, then I can change the box size but not the box shape, and so cannot select an area of 16:9 from that image, only an area of 5:1, which is not very useful. It would also appear I can only ask for preset moves – a simple two section track across an image, for example, is not possible. When I get to larger files, say 28,000×2,500px, then they will not import at all, even though these images can be worked with within FCP. With Boris I get a black screen. The preview monitor is usually way out of my selected area, in fact, the whole thing doesn’t seem to work, except with quite small images, where at first evaluation it appears to work OK. The included pdf user guide does not offer anything in the way of help.
Am I missing something? I am desperately seeking a way of creating simple rostrum moves on cumbersome original artwork. I thought this part of the project was going to be the easy bit. Motion won’t do it (can’t handle large files), AE is too scary (I fought my way into Motion only to find it wasn’t up to the job) Stage Tools is too lumpy, Pan CanvasPro likewise. The only contender now would seem to be Digirostrum, but that’s on Windows and is not exactly easy to work with, although it can, allegedly, handle the large files.
Regards,
John Howarth