[Lynette Gilbert]

I’ll have to check tomorrow to see how it’s formatted, as I’m already home from work.

@Tony – I only have one G-drive, and it’s connected directly to the computer.

@Zane – it’s connected via firewire, 6-pin to 8-pin.

[Lynette Gilbert]

Not sure how you can tell which computers would be running it, but I do have the same license of Final Cut Studio for my iMac and my MacBook Pro. I know that I cannot work in FCP on my iMac if it’s open on my MacBook, and vice versa. It tells me there is another version open on another computer in my network. Although, I’ve had my MacBook Pro for about a month, so I’m not sure if that’s standard or if it’s just the way that my computers are configured, etc.

[Lynette Gilbert]

Do you mean you want to see if your license of FCP is being used on a machine other than yours?

[Lynette Gilbert]

To take a screen shot, Command Shift 4. This will give you crosshairs that you can drag to the needed size. To upload to CreativeCow, click on the camera icon, browse and upload your photo. The name of the file will appear in the upper right of the window. Click on the file, then copy the text in Embed, then paste into the reply window.

Edited because the image I chose was a bad example.

[Lynette Gilbert]

What worked even better was separating the text and the images into two separate projects (saved the project as “text only” and deleted video, then opened previous project and this time deleted the text and saved it as “video only”).

After importing separately into FCP, the motion looks perfect.

[Lynette Gilbert]

Do your settings in Motion match your setting in FCP? What I mean by that is to make sure the aspect ratio is the same. If you have, for instance, a 640×480 project in FCP but your settings in Motion are 720×480, then it won’t work.

[Lynette Gilbert]

This is heavy!

I am thinking it must be the burner.

[Lynette Gilbert]

I use SnapzPro all the time for screen capture, but I’ve never had a problem. I use it for videos that demo website navigation, and that requires animation (zooming, panning, etc.) so I work with it in Motion. I don’t think I’ve ever worked with SnapzPro files directly in FCP.

Of course, you have to render the Motion file after you import it into FCP, but it goes really quickly.

What kind of file are you saving it as?

[Lynette Gilbert]

It’s obviously more desirable to get a sound recordist, but if you work completely alone like I do (I comprise the entire video department at my company), then you have no choice.

I use a camera-mounted shotgun, and it usually works great (unless I’m in a very noisy room). I’ve even used it in a pinch for recording interviews (my old lav was very unreliable, but they finally got me a new one – woot!) Obviously, if I’m using talent or doing an interview, I use the lav, but like I said, I know that if something goes wrong, my shotgun will work just fine.

[Lynette Gilbert]

I’ve run into this problem before, and it’s very frustrating! It looks perfect in the viewer, but then once it’s on the timeline it looks terrible. I found that if I imported the still into Motion and then put the Motion project into FCP, it was crystal clear. In fact, I only work in Motion now with stills.