Josh Weiss
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Colin,as I said in my original post I realize you can go to the reset button. However I would rather not have it cache my changes at all so if I tell it to go to a layout it automatically resets to the saved layout. Anyone have any methods to do this.
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While I agree that we are all greatful for someone taking the time to create a tutorial I also see one overwhelming problem besides the ones already mentioned.
Why Track a still image that you are doing the moves on in after effects?
The point of tracking is to match camera data of footage you have been given and have no control over. The beauty of working with a still is that you have all of the control on the motion. Therefor all you need to do is parent your logo layer, bubbles layers, etc. If you don’t want the scale to transfer and just want the position, do a simple pick whip expression or use a null for position. There are SO Many better ways to do this in after effects. What you have taught here is just improper technique and poor compositing form.
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While I agree that we are all greatful for someone taking the time to create a tutorial I also see one overwhelming problem besides the ones already mentioned.
Why Track a still image that you are doing the moves on in after effects?
The point of tracking is to match camera data of footage you have been given and have no control over. The beauty of working with a still is that you have all of the control on the motion. Therefor all you need to do is parent your logo layer, bubbles layers, etc. If you don’t want the scale to transfer and just want the position, do a simple pick whip expression or use a null for position. There are SO Many better ways to do this in after effects. What you have taught here is just improper technique and poor compositing form.
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Arnie, I’m not quite sure what your first comment means. My statement had nothing to do with not having pre and post roll in the AE render. My statement had to do with doing an overwrite edit and not overwriting over the transition, but in fact putting a new clip in the edit while keeping the same transitions in place.
As for the replace edit, you can do a replace edit and not disturb the transitions. However, one it is not using ins and outs which some people do like to use sometimes; two, this works if you have a transition on one end of the clip. It does not work if you have a transition and the head and tail of the clip. You get the error saying invalid content for edit. Even if the new source footage is twice the length of the clip you are trying to replace.
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Arnie, I do understand that its marking the pre and post roll. However, in real world use this can be impractical and there are many uses to have a setting that does not link the transition when marking. For instance, you render a scene out of after effects or other software that will replace where a current scene now lives in the edit. It will take the same time and have the same timing so all you really need to do is replace this. However, the way that final cut works, you must first delete the transitions before marking a clip. In systems like a Smoke, if you don’t have link transitions set, you can just replace the clip keeping the transitions in place. This is obviously quite handy. I don’t really see how using your suggestion of a replace over an overwrite will help in this situation. While I do often use the replace edit, that is not the function that I am speaking of in this questions and I don’t see how it will help me here. If anyone has any insight into my original post that would be great. Thanks everyone.
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Thats a good tip, but is there any way to do this in the viewer?
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That works… thanks a lot.
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Thanks guys. I know HOW to change the the FCP scratch disc settings and I do know that if you want to you can change them on a per project basis. I do like the seperate folders that FCP creates, however I wish there was a way to change that setting once and have it stay on (same as project). Therefore if you have something on your raid in the Project A folder it will automatically put all associated, autosaves, waveforms, captures, renders, etc. within subfolders within Project A. Does anyone have any ideas for making it do this universally? So therefore wherever the ProjectA.fcp file lives, so do all these other folders within the same main folder.
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Thanks, yeah I realize I can render a seperate alpha, but that really is an unneccesary step. I wish you could just do an embedded alpha with the uncompressed or some sort of plugin for it.
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In addition, related to an earlier post from today does anyone know any good slow motion plugins and FCP’s speed function has given me some pretty pore results both for slow and fast motion.