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You’d use Motion with the AutoMotion plug from Digital Heaven to do that.
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The Distort>Displace filter doesn’t play back your matte in the clip well, so it won’t work as a heat effect.
This means that this filter is not really funcitoning as a true displace filter.If you have “Telly’s FX” which come FREE with my book, “Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro”
(designed by Nattress), then you will have a fully functioning displace filter with which you can make
such a heat effect.Check it out.
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Of course there’s gonna be gripes. Your footage needs to be drastically scaled up. Try Resizer for decent results. You may want to downconvert instead of upconvert.
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[John Pale] “Its also a good idea to put your Autosave Vault on a different drive than your boot drive (if thats where you are storing your project)…this way if your boot drive fails, you dont lose your autosave vault. I also backup my current project to .Mac every night.”
Yes and yes.
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Project files should live on your boot drive.
Media should be on your external disk.Kevin Monahan
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Aprildentist,
I guess you are not understanding how to set up your system properly for external monitoring. This is important for judging the quality of your video graphcs for one reason. There are many other good reasons too. While ALL pro editors are set up this way, many of my newer colleagues are completely unaware that they need to do this, so you’re not alone.How to?
You connect the video monitor and external speakers to the DV Cam/or DV Deck and NOT the Mac.Why?
You are supposed to hook up your FCP output the video monitor WHILE you work, not after you burn yet another drink coaster DVD. That way, you can make adjustments to your graphics on the fly, not after it’s too late. Does that make sense to you?Now about your blurry text problem:
Did you render it at high quality?
Is the dark green “Full” bar checked in the Sequence>Render menus?
Is the RT popup menu set to: Safe RT, High Quality, Full Frame Rate?
Is your text over 100 in brightness levels on your Tools>Waveform monitor?If my suggestions do not help you, you might try downgrading your QuickTime to a previous version. I’ve heard some problems with 7.1.1.
Good Luck and don’t forget to hook up that monitor!
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Don’t put your head in the sand and ignore the dropped frames warning. Try and discover the real root of your problem. Dropped frames are usually caused by drives that are too slow, clips that are too long or both.
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I can’t see your video on U-tube. Can you post it somewhere else?
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You are supposed to monitor audio and video through your DV deck, not out of any of the computer’s outputs.
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Have you tried using Compressor?
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