Lance Drake
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Hi –
My experience has been that the Roxio Toast Titanium App version 10.0.7 running under MacOSX 10.6.4 is just as happy as ever. I’ve had no problems crashing, etc. However, I have the same User-Interface issues, as ever.
Also – despite asking the app to burn at 2X DVD speed, for instance, it continues to report things like “Current Speed: 8x” which is confidence-reducing in that I always like to burn media at less than the max allowed in order to reduce the possibility of errors that can come with highest possible burn speeds. Why can’t they simply perform as requested. If the answer from Roxio is, “Well we TELL MacOSX to do that, but it doesn’t follow our instructions.” I do not believe that necessarily need be the case. In that event, somebody is either doing something wrong and/or there’s a long-standing bug in MacOSX (which I kind of doubt).
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Thank you so much for taking the time to ad so much info to the discussion.
For me, the question of losing resolution is not an issue as it seems that VIDEO has TOO MUCH resolution – at least when subjectively compared against the creamy smooth look of film stock. For me, losing some resolution is a small price to pay for also losing the moving-edge artifacts that yell VID-EEE-OOO!
What I probably need to do is move into the 21st century and get a camera that shoots both progressive AND interlaced and saves the full res imagery to a card [and compress it into some MPEG space saver format].
The missing ingredient in my situation is money. But thanks for the insights of the people who are working at a level somewhat higher than I am.
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Hi Shane – That’s interesting – I guess my question comes from the fact I shoot with a Sony HD camera that creates interlaced footage to tape – and then, when I look at individual frames, there’s very often some artifacts showing up along horizontal edges that makes the video look more like ‘video’ – and, as you suggest, that’s not my desired intent or style as I create what I WISH was shot on film – or that I had access to a nice progressive camera – so, you’ve answered my question – which I understand to be, “It’s only important if your customer cares” – which makes sense.
Thank you
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OK – you can’t make use of the CS3 beta unless you already have CS2 – so does anyone have a clue about what are the ‘upgrade pricing plans’?
F’rinstance, if I upgrade to CS2 – will I then have to buy the CS3 upgrade or will they have some sort of ‘If you bought it after January 1st 2007 – you can get a free upgrade” – or whaa?
I am guessing that the deal will NOT be that – and I will have to simply upgrade TWICE – once from from CS to CS2 and then again from CS2 to CS3 – does that sound like it?
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Lance
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Hi – I’m noticing the same undesired effect to my moving graphics. Motion Blur is not a fix- it just obscures the graphic into bluriness – the problem comes from the fact that the graphic is rendered at 30 fps – and, when you output – intermediate ‘fields’ are created using two frames – each of which is in a different place – so you get a double-vision look as the FRAMES are played out with the combination of FIELDS which only approximate what would be captured in a 60-field video camera – AND you cannot enjoy the motion blur you would get with film – so it looks terrible!
If you come up with an answer – please let me know.
One thing I have tried is to increase the FRAME RATE of the graphic to be 59.94 or 60 – depending on output format 29.97 or 30 fps – and seen some improvement. It also takes up twice as much space… but that’s not really an issue – whereas the crummy visual jerkiness IS.
If you select the item in the MEDIA tab, then goto the INSPECTOR and select the MEDIA tab – you will see the FRAME RATE popup. Try changing that and see if you don’t see an improvement.
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Motion has taken the (unfortunate) step of performing lots of their magic in the MacOSX KERNEL memory-space under the auspices of a kernel process.
When something bad happens – like a memory resource error – not only does Motion crash – but it takes down the whole system.
Whereas, when an app and it’s resources are all located in USER space – then when something bad happens, there’s hope to recover – or, failing that, the app can crash – but NOT the whole system which is what happens with Motion.
This approach they’ve taken is really a sad situation and, unless they get out of KERNEL space and not do all their work in a kernel-process, this kind of nonsense is going to keep being a part of the Motion experience.
FWIW – The times I most often run into trouble are when I have something going on that uses almost all of the system RAM – and that’s not hard to do – or when I am rapidly clicking around from viewing-area to viewing-area and it seems to get behind and lost in the updates.
HTH
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Apple reports that you may only use one video card in a Motion system. I submitted a bug to the bugreporter site at apple.com and they marked it as a duplicate. The solution for me was to take out the second graphics card.
HTH
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Hi Walter,
Hey thanks! for the quick and informative response. Your input is much appreciated. As it happened, my G5 CPU konked out 2 days before the MacPro showed up – so it’s in the shop and I could not run an A/B test on the same materials. When it comes back, I’ll give it a go and post the results here on the CreativeCow FCP forum.
Ya know.. LAST NIGHT I was re-watching your tutorials on Traveling Mattes in FCP and was so happy to revisit the excellent info and hints on how to make use of Alpha and Luma mattes – PLUS the clue in adding a drop-shadow.
Best Wishes,
Lance Drake
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Hi Bret – Exporting from QT (Pro) was THE first thing I tried. The audio settings are dimmed and it just doesn’t want to let you extract the audio – no matter what – well, as best as I could tell – hence my note to this site. But your question is well-placed – like it wouldn’t be the first time I missed doing something obvious like that. Thanks for responding!
Lance
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In the words of Rocket J. Squirrel, “Hokey Smokes!” That is FANTASTIC – or as we say in the summer, “TAN-FAST-IC!”. Thank you SO much! It woks PERFECTLY and does EXACTLY what I was hoping to do – even concerting to DV format.
You deh MANN!
Lance