[Martin Baker]

There were changes to the way mono/stereo audio is captured between v4.5 and v5. If you’re using v4.5 to play clips originally captured in v5 then that’s likely the reason.

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There’s a plug-in called ReelSmart Motion Blur which should do what you want:
https://www.revisionfx.com/mblur.htm

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We use Basecamp from 37 Signals which is fantastic.
https://www.basecamphq.com/

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Each user has separate FCP preferences as saved in Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data

Martin
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Set the scale of the clip to 133.33% in the Motion tab and it will be full height with the sides cropped off.

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Yep it’s there already:
Select the item in the sequence and press Option-Return to open in editor.

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Depends where you are. Here in the UK anamorphic delivery for broadcast has been the standard for around the last 10 years and a letterboxed version would be rejected.

Martin
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– Press i key to mark in
– Press Tab key
– Enter “3.” and hit return key

That will give you a marked duration of 3 secs. It isn’t possible to use the F9, F10 etc KB shortcuts from secondary viewers.

If you really are doing this hundreds of times then you could always look into using a macro program:
https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
https://www.quickeys.com/products/quickeys.html

Martin
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Ashley

This is almost certainly caused by importing a DV (720×480) file into a 720×486 sequence and the field mushing that is happening as a result.

Go back to AE, change the comp setting to 720×486 and render out again as Animation codec at Millions+. Not sure whether you really went through DV codec before but it’s not a good idea if you’re going to an uncompressed Symphony.

Martin
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In Motion’s built-in templates, just delete the layer called “Background- Replace Here”.

To check, you can choose View > Channels > Alpha and you should be seeing black outside the motion objects.

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