[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Tim,

Yes, Motion Array was great, but turned into something useless.

Admittedly, I rarely use transitions apart from dissolves and the odd wipe.
Call me old-fashioned, except when I must do something more elaborate.

You might have already looked at these, but here goes:

MotionVFX pending takeover by Apple, may already be in the FCP Studio package:
https://www.motionvfx.com/collections?q=Transitions

FX Factory, reasonably priced, unless you need a lot of them:
https://fxfactory.com/search/?keywords=transistions+fcp#nav-search-activator

Envato, I don’t know if these work for FCP + you may like with Motion Array, have to keep paying them for as long as you are using the transitions:
https://app.envato.com/search?itemType=stock-video&term=transitions+fcp

I am sure that there is more out there, but this was the few that I could think of.

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Yes, Let’s do it, who else wants to take part?

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Hey Roland,

Thank you for sharing.

Admittedly, it looks crazy good; more importantly, a good indicator of what is to come.

But the question with Adobe is always: At what extra cost in form of A.I. tokens or add-on subscriptions?

However, if anyone needs an education of what happens when Creative A.I. meets Agentic A.I., hit that link and watch Ariane’s video tutorial.

Will this be the end of plug-ins for masking and grading as we know it?

Will the likes of Avid and Davinci respond with built in local LLMs that won’t need an exstra subscription, but computing power?

It is a new world that continues to open wider.

Question:
Who here is up for a COW Meet/Zoom/Teams Roundtable on A.I. in Production and Post?

What says the farmer @brieclayton ?

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Hey Nina,

Sorry, I am bit late to anawring so you might already have found a solution to your problem.

We will need a lot more dtails than the screen shot, please:

Like Davinci version number?

Are you PC or Mac?

Have you previously been able to back up the project, to the same location?

And so forth.

If you have found a solution, please feel free to share so other users with the same problem, can find it.

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Hey Eddie,

Just had alisten to both your version on YouTube, and honestly could not hear the difference – but keep in mind that a vast majority of your viewers will be watching YouTube shorts on a mobile phone or tablet. And, depending on where they are based, YouTube (Google) may throttle the full quality version, to prioritise a contineous playback over stop-start streaming jitter.

In other words, you just can’t win!

Adding, that there is not much movement in a “still”.

I watched both your versions to the end and gave each of them a like.

Also, noted that the version that you added #hashtags to, had over double the amount of views.

Good Luck!

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Hey Kouraib,

You make a really good point.

I am not sure that I agree with CG Toon, not least as he is using a poor persons version of slow moving music, that would fit a 1980’s arcade machine. And, he is a self-confessed beginner with Blender, so not sure that he is there, yet.

Setting that aside, there is A.I., and then there is A.I..

Question is: Are you using Generative A.I. because you are not creative enough, or too lazy to put in the work? (Using ‘you’ <strong jsaction=”” jscontroller=”zYmgkd#vvzi1e” data-sfc-root=”ep” jsuid=”BnmFO_19″ data-sfc-cb=”” data-complete=”true” data-copy-service-computed-style=”font-family: "Google Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);”>figuratively here, not targeting you specifically.)

Or, are you using Functional A.I. as a way of taking care of repetitive tasks, or as way of using Vibe Coding, without having to learn Python as one example?

Although Coding is a language that most people can learn, there is the barrier of spending enough time to get experienced v just wanting to be creative.

And, as most of the top tools in our industry is now including direct access to your favourite A.I., then there is hard choices to be made between being purist, and that of increasing the output and publish more.

The “hidden” problem with most A.I. is that you can quickly make yourself poor, or run out of “tokens”, when using the big A.I. engines such as Claude. Which in itself is a barrier.

Personally I favour any A.I. that I can run on my local computer, Topaz for now, is one of those. Until Adobe will kill it off…

Should add that HumbleBundle, my favourite go to for quirky games, books and “software” currently have a 17 course bundle in using Claude A.I. for Blender at a minimum total of £26,72.
I haven’t tried it, but sharing in case someone wants to learn more + support the “Girls who Code” charity:
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/complete-claude-ai-for-blender-bundle-software

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That is good news!

And at least you can get on with the actual job.

Good idea to export EDL/AAF to see what happens, maybe send it to Davinci or similar?

Admittedly, I have got the latest version of AVID MC Ultimate, just need a bigger project to take it for a test run on.

Still remember the days when AVID off-line started from about £50K for a suite, where as now it is close to £250 for an annual licence that will run on most reasonable specced computers…

Have Fun, and don’t forget to announce it here on the COW when your work gets published.

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Mads

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Have to confess that after finding a lot of VR games, at a competitive price, it is becoming fun for my boys to use.

But proper VR headsets are IMHO still too heavy for anything else.

Likely the StarTrek HoloDeck will be the next big step, or not…

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Hey Nina,

You are stuck between a rock and a hard place, as it sounds like the production might need to get the funding for completion, based on your amazing edit.

My advice is to make sure that the production understands that even if it’s “unconventional”, it still needs to be in a format where the finished documentary can be enjoyed.
Don’t know if it is stepping on your toes, but it might be worth suggesting the production hire (or nominate) a Post Production Supervisor to start managing the process and make sure that each “department” knows what they are working with and towards.

Depending on how you decide to work with the mix of frame-rates, and given that no notes are carried over to the sound edit/mix, then you might end up with some interesting out of sync dialogue.

Not trying to scare you here, as you sound like you’ve got a very good grip on the edit. But as I am sure that you have experienced, that as soon as you’ve left the room and moved on, someone will do their best to complicate the next stage.

Good news is that you are on AVID, and that from its infancy, was created for high-end editing for handing over to high-end finishing team.

Keep Going – you are doing well.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Nina,

Are you finishing the project on AVID, or will ot go to a third party?

When it comes to framerates, there can only be the one that you deliver the final master with.
Obviously from that, you may be doing down, up or cross converts depending on the delivery specs.

If the amount of footage that you are dealing with is manageble and you have the space for it, it may be worth doing fullres converts of source footage to the master TC format. Then do proxies from that if you need the space.

In other words, if you transcode in full media size, you should be fine. But if you are doing proxies that are not matching, then you’ll need to rethink the process.

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Mads