Mark Smith
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Andreas-
Did you get a chance to take a look at the problem I am trying to solve?
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I appreciate you taking the time to give the situation a look. What I am trying to do “should ” work only it doesn’t so far for me .
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I tried using a different lower third generator from the fcpx library with the same result- attempting to make a global background change across all lower thirds with the inspector doesn’t work. it will only change the background on one lower third. This is sort of annoying….
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I’m using the soft bar preset. What I see happening in the case where I select several lower thirds and want to effect a change in the soft bar background, I can select the as many lower thirds as I want, the inspector will reflect that i am inspecting 3 items, then I make a change in the text background and go back to the time line to check the results and only one lower third of the 3 will reflect the change, with the others remaining unchanged.
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The parameters for the text back grounds are published so I naturally thought I would be able to make a global change but so far it seems I can’t do that. The behaviour of the graphics when making changes to groups of lower thirds in the inspector seems a bit unpredictable at this point . It could be just my ignorance of how things work versus how I think they should work. I’ll give it another shot today.
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I don’t quite understand the difference between these key stroke combinations….
This forward select shortcut (press “shift/alt/down” to selects all clips to the right. or “shift+alt+down” to select all clips to the left.) is a new one on me but I tried i and it doesn’t seem to work for me??
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If you get virtual cam card app from Spherico.com you can use that app to make FCPX think your .mov file is a cam card and then select a portion of the file you want to import.
I had a sh*t ton of .mov files from captured tapes that I needed to grab bits and pieces from for an edit, virtual cam card was the key app in that scenario.
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Making image sequences in compressor is best done with all the images in a folder which is likely why it didn’t work for you . Put all the images from you sequence in one folder. I usually use a third party app to rename and re number image sequence files prior to processing with compressor so that the names reflect something related to their content .
If by some chance compressor won’t support .png files you can always get graphic converter which will batch convert graphic files from one format to another then convert your .png’s to some other friendlier format. Motion as you have discovered, will also do a fine job, I just find the compressor route faster for most of my needs. -
I think you’ll be far happier with this workflow. I started out building time lapses in X and its ok as long as your stills equences are limited in the amount of photos. When I got into having thousands of photos in a long sequence X could still pull it off but it clearly was a strain.
Making an image sequence in compressor at native photo resolution ( say 4kX3K pixels) and then bringing the resulting pro res file into x streamlines the editing process. If you make your image sequence resolution native to the stills, once you bring it into X you have the option of sizing the image to your time line or using the native resolution and doing crops and moves on the image sequence which might be significantly larger than a 1920×1080 project time line.
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I find i am frequently working. With time lapse sequences from digital stills cameras. Compressor can be used to create image sequences from series of stills . While i have created images sequences inside X , its far better to make an image sequence outside of x and then import the .mov. You end up with less clutter in your browser, and X runs better without hundreds or thousands of discreet image files in he library.