Matt Silverman
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I don’t know about smoke and fire… the only z-depth plug-in that I remember was the true camera blur. This would take a grayscale version of your CG rendering and use it for depth of field. Just render out a z-depth matte from Lightwave… this is not like RLA magic, and more like a compound blur.
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I assume that the Firewire card in your computer does not support the QuickTime Video Output Component (QTVOUT).
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I don’t think that Motion has a paint tool, so this is why you probably are having problems. Commotion’s paint tool is still a very good 8bit paint tool. If you need higher quality, silhoutte just released their 16bit paint tool. Commotion’s tracker is still up to par with others.
My Commotion Complete training DVD’s cover paiting/cloning with fields, as well as in-depth motion tracking. No-need to buy it on ebay, since you can get it brand new from Toolfarm for $99. https://store.yahoo.com/toolfarm/cocotr.html
-Matt
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They came bundled but were locked only to Commotion. You could not use them in other packages. Commotion is dead though, so no reason buying it when there are other great roto tools like Silhouette. If you want the best tools in Composite Wizard and Image Lounge, check out the new Key Correct plug-ins from Red Giant.
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As long as it is QT it should work. If not, convert to a lossless QT codec like Animation, PNG, or Microcosm.
If by “touchup” you mean paint work, then I recommend converting to a tiff image sequence. Work on this sequence so you do not accidently paint over your master clip. Working on a sequence allows you to quickly do a command-s to save as you work. Commotion has a nasty bug when painting on QT’s… it will save your painted frames to the end of the clip then try incorrectly to put them back in the right place on playback. Once you are done with the clip do a “save-as” and choos your QT codec for FCE.
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Go to the “Help” menu choose “AE Help”. In the contents, select “Overview of All Effects”.
There is an item in the Help menu called “Effects Help”, but it doesn’t seem to jump to the right place.
If you want to learn about 3rd party plug-ins then go to http://www.toolfarm.com.
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DV10 is the Digital Voodoo file format. BlackMagic defaults to use the FCP 10bit uncompressed codec. If you download the latest drivers you can switch this to the BM10bit codec (notDV10version), but you get less RT. The BM10bit codec and the FCP10bit codec are the same file format (v210), so they are interchangable. Personally, I prefer the BM10bit, since it works better with After Effects 16bit and does not have embedded gamma info.
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There is no simple way. Why would you want to do this anyway?
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Silhouette is a great replacement.
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Watch out… there is a big bug in the new FCP 10bit codec (2.0). When you switch your AE project to 16bit you will get some garbage in your 10bit source footage. I recommend going back to the old BM codec. BM, Apple, and Adobe on the case.