[Matt Campbell]

Do you know to get a proper conversion from AI to Motion? What should my AI logos be set up as in order to get the same values in Motion?

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[Matt Campbell]

1.) i sampled the blue color from the logo with the eye dropper in the shape tab. thus giving me the same fill. but those numbers are not the same as the ones in AI. 0, 71, 135 shows up as 32, 69, 132. Those are the moused over values from the above the project pane.

2.) tried this too. i give the new shape the proper values of 0 71 135 from the OSX picker and it doesn’t match the logo.

I can’t figure out how I’m to get the logo to match the background.

regarding the RGB set up. I used the HDTV 1280 preset and went from there. Under doc color mode, in the file menu. I’ve changed the proof set up under the view menu as well, to view it in MAC RGB.

I’ve also tried creating new plain RGB swatches in AI. still doesn’t match the motion color. very odd.

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[Matt Campbell]

First off, thanks for the response. I’ve been testing and troubleshooting here myself. the AI file is RGB and I created new Pantone color swatches in RGB and re-filled my logo. I then updated the Motion file and the colors appear correct now but the numbers, althought different from before, still don’t match up. I’ll keep trying things out. Thanks again.

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[Matt Campbell]

Not sure if I uploaded this correctly the 1st time. So I tried it again. I guess I’m supposed to post the link to it?

491_creativecowtest.zip

Hope this works

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[Matt Campbell]

Sure.

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[Matt Campbell]

Thanks David. Appreciate you shedding some techy light on this for me. We have the HVX 200 and I do over and under crank the camera for speed changes with both 24PN and 30PN and shooting at 12fps or even 60fps. My main concern is for footage from another source and apply speed changes in post. I’ll keep testing testing testing until I find a method that works and yields decent results. This is not for high end work but merely for those employee videos and web videos to showcase our agency life. Thanks for the insight. Big help.

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[Matt Campbell]

Thanks Shane. I will be getting After Effects, hopefully soon. I’ll look into Twixtor then. I already know how to time remap clips, I just want to get the best quality when doing so. I’ll revisit the manual again.

I’ve been getting a lot of frame interpolation (if thats the right term for that), which makes the slow-mo look steppy and not very clean. With clips that have already been shot or footage downloaded from Getty, can FCP, Motion or even Compressor make this cleaner using Optical Flow? Or will AE and Twixtor be the best way to go?

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[Matt Campbell]

I just posted something about this on here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2268151

I was hoping to do the same thing but it looks like you can only transcode after ingest. I’ve done this with my DVCProHD footage using Compressor to convert to ProRes and its worked great. Just make sure your source settings match your output settings.

The option is to edit natively and convert on output.

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[Matt Campbell]

Dave, FYI, Motion was able to center cut the 16:9 clip in a D1 NTSC project. However, even though it doesn’t say so in the properties tab, compared to the 16:9 clip in a NTSC timeline in FCP, I think the clip was scaled up slightly to fill the frame. There is a tiny bit of banding and artifacts in the clip. But nothing major or noticeable on the TV. I think Compressors resizing filter would did a better job of this. Either way, they both worked. Thanks everyone for all the comments.

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[Matt Campbell]

Rafael, the clip already is 29.97. In the browser it shows as 29.97, field dom None, square pixels Photo JPEG codec. The clip was describe on Corbis as 864×486 30i. I don’t quite understand why i would want FCP to recognize the pixels as square when I need it to be a NTSC deliverable. And why use an anamorphic sequence, unless you mean for me to convert on output?

Thanks everyone for your comments.

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