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There are many ways to make smaller screencasts.
Record a smaller window – don’t record your software fullscreen on a 4K monitor – around 720p should be eenough for most applications. Or crop unneeded areas if you just need part of your screen.
Reduce the frames per second – depending on the recorded software 15-25 fps should be plenty.
Encode with variable bitrate. You don’t need constant 2500 kbit/s or more bitrate when there’s just a bit of mouse pointer movement.
I like Handbrake for encoding – something like this should work:
H.264 Profile high 4.1
Preset: medium or slow
Tune: Animation or none
Constant quality RF 22 (or higher RF for smaller files with less quality)
Audio AAC 64kbit mono if theres just voiceover or 128kbit/s stereo
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Have you tried Manifesto? A free FXFactory plugin:
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Try deleting your font caches with onyx or font nuke.
https://www.titanium.free.fr/onyx.html
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That sort of thing is really easy to build in Motion and publish as effect or generator to FCPX. I build these all the time for our editors – reusable and editable titles, lower thirds, transitions etc.
And because I’m so very very nice (and wanted one for myself 🙂 I built a simple generator with drop zones that looks kinda like your example
4slides.zip
https://youtu.be/kMhsbbToGUw
Just unzip in ~/Movies/Motion Templates/Generators/It’s not very complicated, so editing it to your liking shouldn’t be too hard.
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I meant Motion. Here’s a short video where I just link two controls to another slider, which is keyframeable. https://youtu.be/1FZNKJ6sgAs That’s just a workaround because the smoothing controls are not keyframeable for whatever reason.
You could also edit the generated transform-keyframes directly after applying them to the clip.
The Motion manual describes rigging and the tracking behaviors really well: https://help.apple.com/motion/mac/5.0/en/motion/usermanual/index.html
I’d recommend watching a few tutorials to get you started in FCPX and Motion. I like the ripple training tutorials.
https://www.rippletraining.com/categories/motion/
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You can’t keyframe the smoothing amount directly in Motion, but it’s easy to just rig the controls to a slider and keyframe that. takes less than a minute.
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Hm.. I don’t know then. Most of the time I just use Motion’s project settings for motion blur with 12-16 samples, 180°. that looks ok and is relatively fast to render.
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Works for me. Might be that you applied the filter directly to an animated layer? This way the filter moves with the object, so it doesn’t see any movement (if that makes any sense). Try applying it to the group.
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You should try ReelSmart Motion Blur.
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Parenting:
Have you tried the Match Move behavior? Add the behavior to the child and use the parent as source.Vector Graphics:
Have you tried changing the playback and render quality from normal to best?
I convert most of my vector graphics to vector PDF files, they work best for me, perhaps that helps.
