Brett FX makes this effect but I think it is also now in the standard FCP effects catalog as well. Thanks for replying.

This does sound like a drive failure to me; can you confirm if the project and backup files were in a different partition than the last recovery version from July?

Don’t empty your trash folder. Go check it but don’t empty it.

I think what has happened to you is that the part of the files that is sort of a “table of contents” has become corrupt…

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A closer detail shot…

A clue has emerged: on one of my older iMacs, this effect still exists but I can’t find a way to publish or export the effect out. This is a green grab of part of it; does it help any of you to figure out how it was originally created?

Long ago I came up with a method to imitate the same video feedback effect as in the Earth Wind and Fire video for “September”. I forgot my home-brewed recipe, and poking around FCPX and Motion have not been able to replicate it. I think I remember whatever I did, I did to a keyed image, over black, to get that nice repeating effect off to one…

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Long ago I came up with a method to imitate the same video feedback effect as in the Earth Wind and Fire video for “September”. I forgot my home brewed recipe, and poking around FCPX and Motion have not been able to replicate it. I think I remember whatever I did, I did to a keyed image, to get that nice repeating effect off to one side. I think…

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A link to those samples would be useful.

One other thing to check is in the Inspector controls, go to the bottom and look for the checkbox: “Spacial Conform” and be sure it’s set to “none”. This little thing used to bite my partner in the butt many times. He’d complain that scaling up the image was losing too much resolution, and what was happening was the inspector defaulted to filling…

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It’s definitely a balancing act to juggle between sponsored content, and the revenue it brings in, and non-sponsored content that’s not there to sell you anything, but just to add knowledge and solve a problem and create a community. I think the two can co-exist. But then you will be stretched for revenue unless you get aggressive with the ads.…

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I’m a bit peeved that the original content I created for this site (“Save This Script!” with Mark Suszko and John Morley) was purged without any notice to me. That’s happened to other long time COW hands I’ve heard from, who also put up content from way back, lots of it… and found it was all purged, no notice. They’re irked about it.

But…

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Getting everything at the same color temp will make life easier. Sometimes we want a particular aesthetic, like the rainy day or day for night scenes, where we want it bluer on purpose… or to make certain items in a scene “pop” and so sometimes a lighting director or DOP deliberately doesn’t correct one or more sources, or tricks the balance…

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Maybe what you really need is kinetic typography, which adds animation effects to type and mixes it with objects and images. Done well, it’s very effective. There are tons of examples out there, and most of the work can be done with your existing editing and image apps… here’s a random sample https://www.webdew.com/blog/kinetic-typography

Smartphones are simple and ubiquitous but they aren’t all of equal quality. Even among the same cameraphone models, the cameras on the back are often superior to the ones on the selfie screen side, which your users are going to utilize. If I was going to do, say, a “real” documentary with correspondents all over the map, using their phones, I…

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Yeah, “animated” is too broad a way to describe what you want, even in 2-d. Are we talking stop motion cut-up paper, inked cel type animation, or flash-like vector graphic animation, and at what levels of detail and realism: Hanna Barbera did Flintstones- level detail and realism vs. Jonny Quest level detail and realism. One takes longer to draw…

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The curlicues can be bought from font/typography sellers, hand drawn and scanned by you, or modeled on public domain samples off the internet and customized by you. Calligraphic artists are easily found locally as well, if you just don’t have the time/ patience to learn it or make it yourself. Then you’d bring the samples into Motion and trace…

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It takes a little practice, but, basically you will draw a path and then keyframe how it uncovers itself over time. One way to start is to hand-draw what you want on paper first, and scan it in as an image file. Then you can bring that into Motion as a background layer, and trace over the lines with your mouse or pen cursor, in the vector line…

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My entire career of event videography for live and tape-delayed /edited coverage of News conferences, weddings, business conferences, social gatherings, the number one problem to solve first is getting good audio; getting tapped into the “house” system, avoiding hums and buzzes, and getting my own mics placed wherever I need them most. Lighting…

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Frame IO is not the same thing, or used the same way, not really. If you were using Vimeo as a point to point source for an audience of one client, Frame IO is a much better solution anyhow. Vimeo was a quality platform for a wider audience than Frame IO is meant for. Their niche was quality over size, and it built a loyal brand on that. It’s…

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That sounds easy enough to build once in Motion and then export to FCP as a permanent effect plug-in. I suggest you ask someone in the Motion forum to build it for you. I hated every second of working in AE though I acknowledge its power. I find Motion more my speed and intuitive.

My take on the situation is that if your machine is tied up for this client, you can’t be doing something else with it, or making additional money with it, and so that is billable time; aka “opportunity cost”… however, if the machine is doing all the rendering unattended, that’s not the same as the billable time you track for the actual…

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I see the streak, it almost looks like and afterimage or reflection of the light bar behind her, making a corresponding yellow bar across the face.

I’m not a pro colorist or even a davinci owner (yet) but I have ideas:

Idea one is to sample the yellow region, mask above and below it (and perhaps to the right of it), and make the rest of the frame…

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We’re going to need details on the camera settings. If you’re very lucky, you just made some codec setting that your system can’t see. Didn’t you check any playbacks in the field?

Andre’ everyone starts somewhere. I’d suggest a little schoolwork in history and theory first will make your later training and learning go faster and make more sense. It will also either confirm or disprove your level of interest. That will also save you time if you find out this isn’t really what you wanted to do.

So, try Amazon and Ebay for used…

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You say this deal is valuable… I’d disagree, and suggest you close it down. In the end, it’s going to cost you more to keep chasing it. You are trapped in the “sunk cost fallacy”. Don’t take it for an insult: it isn’t. It happens to people every day in all walks of life, from business deals to creative projects to car and boat repairs to bad…

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Greetings from a dinosaur of the trade. I’ve been out of the wedding game a long time so take my opinions for what you think they’re worth. I’m still a fan of camcorders for wedding work over DSLR rigs today. Particularly if you work short-handed, with multiple cameras. Of course you wanna shoot in 4K but as you’ve sort of indicated in your post,…

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I did this once before, years ago, forgot the details. I want to take the strong bass beat of my audio track, and create a behavior that drives the opacity between 100 and zero to blink the video to the beat of the bassline or loud transients of my music track. Picture attached so you can see where I’m at and maybe walk me thru the correct steps.…

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Short answer: no.

Longer answer: if you have a recorded shot of your weather reporter on green, and a recording of whatever the map has to show, that also has the same audio as the weather person, FCPX can automatically synch those tracks up by their audio, You drop the chromakey effect plug-in onto the green screen shot, bam, that’s done, more or…

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Add a very inexpensive camera control app to the phones, and you’d be surprised how well they will work out. I suggest filmic Pro for this. You don’t necessarily want to do a “crummy” initial capture, just to seem authentic: rather, you want to capture really good quality, then degrade it to taste in post with filters and plug-ins.

It’s much…

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Looking for all your tips on how to make smooth-playback credit rolls in Prem Pro when you have long lists of names. Or do y’all give up and send it to AE for that? Please tell me a good workflow.

Some of that is the sensei-enabled content-aware fill.

I might try AE if I owned it at home, but I don’t. And my home machine’s not got enough room to add Resolve right now. I did a test with a background plate in Motion, and it looked promising. I added 3-d lighting, made a diffuse blue light for my moon/key. Added some spotlights overhead with tight cone angles to create what look like motivated…

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You may not need plural eyes if you use Final Cut or Premiere for your editing: they can automatically synch multicam projects by the audio, makes it super-convenient to then play the show in real-time and use the 1,2,3,4 keys like a live switcher.

(“1, 2 ,3…..4? But Mark, I only have -three- cameras!” Well, Keith, your full-screen graphics of…

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So I’ve got a shoot coming up shot (at high noon most likely) in an alley, and I’m planning to convert it to a night scene in Motion with the 3-d lighting tools to give an overall blue cast and then add pools of light and maybe a few other effects. If you’ve done this in Motion before, I’ll take you tips and advice, please. The actors will be…

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From where I’m looking, down and more down. Looking at places like Fiver, where they’ll cut for you for less than minimum wage, the only market left is super-high-end.

You may never get it exact, (as far as human visual perception goes) because the overall lighting is so different between them; one being outdoor and the other, indoor. Shooting a color chart thru the lens in both places would have been really helpful to you now.

I start with getting the white balance to match. Then I look at the scopes, make a…

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Hello, Hussain:

I come at this question as someone with a Liberal Arts and Sciences school background, not a tech or trade school that only teaches how to work a particular piece of software. I’m not against trade schools, at all. But my philosophy, and my actual life experience of over thirty years, is that the variety of things I was learning in…

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There’s perhaps a difference between the live streamed signal quality, and downloading the archived local recording afterwards. Shouldn’t be, but i think that’s one place to look for an answer. If I was depending on a system like this for my program, I’d insist on local archive at maximum bit depth, then FTP or mail a drive or whatever, to get…

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I’m told it’s also summer doldrums and traffic will pick up more with the seasons changing. I think there might be something to your opinion about the redesign but also there is a lot more competition from youtube these days. However, anybody that looks at youtube comments in tech subjects for any length of time should probably run screaming back…

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Can you make it work in a fixed position with speedrail, c-clamps, and a couple of folding ladders on either side? Or does it have to act like it’s on a boom? A c-stand by itself might not be enough, once you add the counterweight.

It’s a warehouse, right? Do they have a spare forklift you can rig the light to?

I wouldn’t do it in FCPX, but rather in Apple Motion, then import to FCPX.

There’s third-party products from Motion VFX that will let you make and import CGI objects into Motion and FCPX.

Random thoughts off the top of my head:

Consider a color gelled light on the plant? If you don’t have a pin spot, maybe use black foil to create a snoot on an existing light?

Are the plants real or fake? Plastic ones, you could dose with gloss or matte sprays to adjust reflectivity. Even airbrush new colors onto them. If they are real, maybe shine…

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The audio forum will have a lot of opinions. I like Audio-Technica and Sennheiser for this, but Rode also makes short shotguns with rechargeable battery power. Your price range will be around 250 and up, with the higher-end shotguns costing as much as your camera, maybe more.

What would help to know is, what you are shooting with this and how you…

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So I took at look at a demo of the software you’re using and I had an idea: because it has multiple track layers, can you create a very simple layer with symbols or colors synched to your music track, then use that as a reference tool for synching your other moves?

I’ve done something like that before in my music-based edits, where I will be…

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I did some further research and found some reviews; they’re not kind. I thought maybe these were go-pro knockoffs in a different form factor; they are not even that good. They’re just older model webcams, in a camcorder form factor. The 4k aspect is also a bit of a marketing stretch, as you can only get it in 24P. (sigh). Back to looking at…

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