[Les Kaye]

[Jerry Hofmann] “Change the clips in Motion… i.e. open the motion project, make changes, then it should be updated in FCP”

Thanks Jerry…but how do I EASILY replace the FCP footage in Motion? I work in multiclip with 6-10 cameras, with each take generally at least an hour. In this instance I need 20 frames of the take. The suggestion on the Motion forum was to render (export?) from FCP and replace the footage in Motion. Are we discussing the same solutions?
-L

[Les Kaye]

Can you cut to an angle when you’re simply parked at a point? If you can (or I guess even if you can’t), perhaps (and I hate to say this…) trashing your prefs might fix the problem. I generally only do multicam editing on FCP, and haven’t had this problem.

About the other issues however…

[Les Kaye]

Thanks for the response, and to clarify:
[klthomas] “The quickest way I’ve found is to render out a new clip of the shot on the FC timeline”
Instead of render, do you mean export it out from FCP. After that I then reimport it
into Motion?

If I get what you’re saying, I did try that and couldn’t get it to work, but it might have been am issue with how I set up this particular Motion project from FCP. If this is the case, I’ll try and see what happens with both a Motion project created outside FCP, and also with a new one created using the FCP integration.
-L

[Les Kaye]

I’m not in front of a system, but doesn’t option or command do the trick?

[Les Kaye]

[Martin Baker] “You have to hold down the Command key to take the original cuts across from sequence to sequence”

Thanks for clarifying – it’s what I meant, but was too windozed out to say correctly – even though I use it all the time (g). Also thanks for the nice tip on changing F9&10 to use sequence contents.

[Les Kaye]

With a sequence loaded in the Viewer, you can also hold CTL key while doing an insert edit and your original sequence cuts will be in the new sequence. NOTE: I have better luck with this using the mouse rather than the keyboard.

[Les Kaye]

I could not see or access the control points. This happened with every mask I created, and included reboots. I deleted the prefserence file and everything returned to normal.
Thanks,
-Les

[Les Kaye]

[Walter Biscardi] “As for what you’re looking for, we get RT CC, Slo Mo, multiple graphics layers, plus a lot more here no problem running a Dual 2.0 with a Fibre Channel Array.”

To expand (belabor?) my response below, this is pretty much why I’m curious about Axio’s real-time, since if Konda offers this in SD, then where’s the Axio advantage?

That said, although the Kona 2 works well for us in HD, the real-time is more limited in HD.

Regards,
-Les

[Les Kaye]

This should keep me busy…

[Les Kaye]

[gary adcock] “Apple shuns all 3rd party vendors and/ or developers that try to offer hardware acceleration for FCP.”

Thanks Gary. Which raises the question – wasn’t the Cinewave card accelerated? Since I’m relatively new to FCP, and am returning back to the Mac world I where I started, I defer to you (and everyone’s knowledge) here. Are you saying that Aja and/or other hardware developers could offer hardware alternatives, but don’t?

I don’t doubt that you’re right, but I’m sorry, I just don’t understand that. Unless Apple was developing their own hardware acceleration down the road…

-Les