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Kj Stubbs
August 4, 2015 at 9:17 pm in reply to: Motion throw behavior makes object move to the front of composite.

What I wound up doing to solve the problem was just adding another copy of the hand in front of the flowers in their own group. I never find out what was causing the bug.

mac osx 10.6.8
Final Cut Studio 6
Kj Stubbs
August 4, 2015 at 8:56 pm in reply to: Motion throw behavior makes object move to the front of composite.

Sorry about the mis-post. I thought I clicked on “apple motion”.

I tried putting the flowers image into its own group, and moved the group from place to place. The only effect was that in some cases, even deactivating the throw behavior would not send the flowers to the back of the hand.

mac osx 10.6.8
Final Cut Studio 6
Kj Stubbs
July 17, 2015 at 1:03 am in reply to: The movie file “.*.mov” cannot be found. Without this file, the movie cannot play properly

There is no easy way around it. Basically, after starting final cut pro I hit [Esc] every time the error message appeared, and then clicked on the “missing” file, until the messages were all gone and the project opened. Then I deleted any browser object that was linked to a reference movie, and any browser object that was unused. I got it down to three browser clips that still gave me the error message on opening, and the [Esc] + click-on-the-“missing”-file process is fast enough that I could still use the project with the three annoying errors at file open.

mac osx 10.6.8
Final Cut Studio 6
Kj Stubbs
June 30, 2015 at 5:34 pm in reply to: Motion 5 Crash

I just redid my mask using B-Spline control points and had no problem.

mac osx 10.6.8
Final Cut Studio 6
Kj Stubbs
June 30, 2015 at 5:17 am in reply to: Motion 5 Crash

I am in Motion 3, and it is crashing every time I add a Bezier control point to a fairly simple mask. I mean, Motion crashes a lot anyway; but this is just about every time I try to do this.

mac osx 10.6.8
Final Cut Studio 6
Kj Stubbs
June 28, 2015 at 6:44 pm in reply to: The movie file “.*.mov” cannot be found. Without this file, the movie cannot play properly

Shane: That is exactly what I did, with the QT reference movie. I had no idea.
Since I cannot “reconnect” to it, what on earth do I do? I tried renaming the actual video file — i.e., renaming “Torin and Justin alone_1a_Master.vid2.mov” to “Torin and Justin alo#AA6153.mov” — but the FCP project did not recognize it. Why not?

mac osx 10.6.8
Final Cut Studio 6
Kj Stubbs
June 25, 2015 at 4:23 pm in reply to: How to create a rectangle by specifying the dimensions?

Thanks for the excellent, simple recommendation.
For everyone’s edification, I am editing in SD 4:3. I wanted to create a 4:3 mask around the actress’s mouth, and have it follow her mouth using motion tracking. After I have a 4:3 mouth video for her dialog, I intend to use Red Giant to expand the mouth to 720×480 SD so that it fills the screen.
(We were rushed out of the location, so I never got to take an extreme close up of her mouth. This is my workaround.)
So I enabled the grid, set it to 10 pixel squares, and dragged to create a square mask. I aligned the square to the grid, which made the sides about 98.9% per side in the Scale parameter. Expanding the Y coordinate by 33.3%, to 132.2% in the Scale parameter, gave me a 4:3 aspect ratio.

mac osx 10.6.8
Final Cut Studio 6