[Julienne Rathore]

Thank you both of you!

I am still a little confused though.
I understand that you both say I should not add the de-interlace using the video filter in the fcp effects, but what about the issue of the compressor – it is automatically checked ‘on’ as ‘interlaced’ – should I uncheck this?

And my footage is interlaced footage – should I not de-interlace it at some stage?

how would you export the finished product?

Thanks again!
Julienne.

[Julienne Rathore]

Maybe I should have been clearer with my details – sorry!:

the montage contains only stills, all png files.
the stills are all from video files (apple intermediate codec AND apple pro res).
the end destionation is a .mov for visual projection.

i’m not sure if I should set the sequence presets to pro res or apple intermediate (original video is in these 2 formats), or simply hdv?
(the rest is 1920×1080 and I have chosen 50i since both original video formats are 25fps interlaced).

julienne

[Julienne Rathore]

end destination is visual projection mix.

[Julienne Rathore]

Hi David,

I am aware of the over 4000×4000 pixel size problems and none of the photos are over that size. I should have mentioned it, sorry!

I have 8GB RAM on my MacPro.

I am also aware that the photos can cause problems with the fcp, and I have already set the stills ram to 100% to see whether this helped the situation.

Im just curious about whether it could be the graphic card “growing old”.

julienne.

[Julienne Rathore]

A small update:

I have just connected internet to my MacPro and run a software update and the only update available was for iTunes…

The project in question is a montage of photographs and includes over 6500 photos – this is maybe creating the problem, but I don’t feel that it should cause fcp to continuously crash.

julienne.

[Julienne Rathore]

Thank you very much for your help once again!

julienne

[Julienne Rathore]

Hi Todd,

thanks for the very quick reply!

I know you’re right about the bask tasking in photoshop, but just for arguments sake – is there a way of changing the default settings of the vignette in fcp?

Have to render the stills anyway also – not sure why…they started as not needing rendering, but after a certain number of shots were added to the timeline (over 6500 total) the timeline is in need of rendering.

Thanks,
julienne.

[Julienne Rathore]

Hi again,

Simon, thank you very much – I will try what you suggest.
One further question though: once I have my cloned area (on the first frame), from multiple groups, how do I track so that the cloned area follows the movement of the camera?

Stephen, the shot does not move much, but this is a handheld project, so there is some movement over time which becomes apparent if blurring and using match move.
It is also a project working with pretty rough street children which is why they were given these simple clip-on microphones and not wireless radio mics, and since they managed to brake 2 clip on mics I’m happy I didn’t give them radio mics despite my present problem…

Thanks again!
julienne.

[Julienne Rathore]

Here is a still shot of one of the clips in question – quickly taken, but it shows the problem.

Thank you.
julienne

[Julienne Rathore]

Hi Michael and creative cow gurus and thanks for the advice again.

I have sort of followed your advice, although I found the keyframing confusing and ended up using the motion tracking behaviour ‘match move’ instead.
On retrospect this was perhaps not the best choice – although the microphone cables are not visible, I feel the gaussiun blurred mask area sticks out due to it moving, although this is not very important as the audience will be looking at the characters and reading the subtitles as opposed to looking for any faults on the ground.
However, the blurred area is not constant, it is an area of the screen and as the shot moves the area it is blurring changes in colour. At times this really sticks out so much that it would actually be better to leave the microphone cable visible as it is far less eye-catching than an area of the ground suddenly changing colour.
Would this issue be avoided if I were to keyframe the mask instead of using ‘match move’?
If the answer is yes, could you please direct me to a good tutorial on the matter of keyframing – I have watched many, but still find the issue of keyframing difficult…

I really hope you can give me some further advice!
Much appreciated 🙂

julienne.