Mark Petereit
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You weren’t shooting under fluorescent lights by chance, were you?
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If I had a dollar for everyone who says you can’t key with a HDV camera…I could BUY a P2! Sheesh!
I key footage shot on my JVC GY-HD110U all the time and get spectacular results:
1) I know my camera and how to use it to capture spectacular color,
2) I spent the TIME and MONEY on the right lighting for my green screen and my talent,
3) I use a large HD field monitor on the shoot to make sure I get an absolute razor-sharp focus,
4) I ingest through my Kona to ProRes422 (What? Not 444? EVERYBODY PANIC!!)
5) and (HORROR OF HORRORS!) I don’t use third-party plugins, just FCP, Color and Motion, right out of the box.Spend your time learning your camera and getting your lighting right. Spend your money for what counts — food for your crew!
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I’m seeing the same issue. When I capture from tape over Firewire to ProRes, there is no delay at all. It captures live (even says real-time in the capture window.) But nothing I try will capture live from the camera over Firewire to ProRes.
Bummer.
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Try setting one up on your timeline then making it a favorite.
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Don’t have access to my camera or my Mac at the moment, but it sounds like the problem may lie in the transport control. Have you tried setting it to “non controllable device” (or something along those lines)?
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Find a church in your area that’s just getting into video and offer to do some work for them for free. Believe me, you’ll be a tremendous blessing to them and you’ll get the demo reel material you need.
Mix in an animal shelter, a PSA for a homeless shelter, domestic abuse shelter, your local United Way, non-profit hospital. Heck, pick your favorite restaurant and tell them you’ll do a commercial in exchange for $X free food. Ask your local news affiliate if you could free-lance some motion graphics for their next “calendar of events” spot.
You know that local commercial you keep seeing on TV that is just absolutely, pitifully awful? Tell them you’ll make a great one for them in exchange for them agreeing to never put that piece of crap on TV again. You’d be doing the public a great service!
The options are endless!
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Do you have any particle effects that expand beyond the frame? Or any “grow” actions on any elements? It could be that over time they’re growing beyond the max render size. Remember, even if they expand off your frame, Motion is still computing the paths. I’ll bet that’s why it’s crashing.
I’m not in front of my Motion system right now, but I think you can add some type of boundary effect that will tell Motion not to render past a set boundary.
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Yes, you can use Motion to do all of those types of graphics.
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Since I see this issue so often, I think Apple needs to create a big nag screen that displays the first 100 times you open Final Cut Pro:
THE CANVAS WAS NOT DESIGNED TO SHOW ACCURATE OUTPUT. WHAT YOU SEE ON THE CANVAS IS ONLY AN APPROXIMATION. THE ONLY WAY TO VIEW YOUR ACTUAL VIDEO IS TO USE A BROADCAST MONITOR ATTACHED TO A DEDICATED VIDEO BROADCAST CARD.