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Mike Eberly
October 10, 2007 at 1:23 pm in reply to: Widescreen Flash movie dimensions

David,
I work with QT source files that are 1280×720 – outputting to 640×360 using Flix On2 gives good results.
Mike Eberly
October 9, 2007 at 8:23 pm in reply to: Fill text with gradient?

One way might be to create a layer with two components – your text, and a rectangular shape with a radial gradient fill.

Make sure the text is on top of the shape, then change the blend mode for the text to ‘stencil alpha’.

The rectangle can be moved and resized until you find the right look.

Best,
Mike
Mike Eberly
January 27, 2007 at 10:28 pm in reply to: trying to set up a blue background light

Nino – thanks for the advice. I’ll look more into HMI’s and see what I can afford! Sounds like renting might be the way to go. I appreciate it.

You’re right about the blue bricks! It’s more an experiment than anything else… I guess if I can make a red wall blue, it’d represent some kind of victory to me. maybe? I don’t know.
Mike Eberly
January 27, 2007 at 10:17 pm in reply to: trying to set up a blue background light

Thanks very much, Dennis – I’ll look into those gels. The gray paint… I guess I’d have to check with the building owner first? 🙂

Mike
Mike Eberly
January 26, 2007 at 9:14 pm in reply to: trying to set up a blue background light

Nino,
Thanks so much for your suggestions. I’ve been reading a lot from the EFP Lighting website you mentioned.

To answer your question, I was practicing lighting techniques on an interior red brick wall. This sounds like it may be the reason why I can’t get the blue to show over such a strong and opposite color.

I also looked at the rosco link you sent. Is there a particular deep blue gel you might recommend?

Thanks very much,
Mike
Mike Eberly
May 31, 2006 at 8:57 pm in reply to: animation codec previews fine but won’t render sharply

Thanks everyone – all your advice has been helpful.

I’ve had this problem only twice… both times involved importing a layered Photoshop file (with transparency) into Motion and animating them.

All other exported Motion movies have worked crisply in FCP.

all the best,
Mike
Mike Eberly
May 30, 2006 at 11:22 pm in reply to: animation codec previews fine but won’t render sharply

Hi Shane,
The sequence settings are
720×480 NTSC DV
NTSC DV (3:2) aspect ratio
CCIR 601 DV
Lower (even) field dom.
29.97 fps
compressor: DV/DVCPRO-NTSC (quality 100%)

The same settings were used in the Motion project from which the lossless+alpha animation codec movie was exported. The motion project is an animated, 5 layer photoshop file with transparency. The movie looks nice and crisp in the QT player, as well as the FCP viewer. It is only when I put it in the timeline that it gets very jagged (and I mean VERY).

I have an external Sony ref monitor which only looks slightly better than what’s referenced from the FCP canvas.

I dumped my FCP prefs and wonder if it’s something that’s been reset, b/c this type thing (animation codec movies from Motion) hasn’t given me trouble in this timeline in the past.

Mike
Mike Eberly
March 30, 2006 at 3:56 pm in reply to: Compressor will not open after reinstall, but all other Studio apps fine

Everything works great now… thanks for the advice!
Mike Eberly
March 30, 2006 at 2:39 pm in reply to: Compressor will not open after reinstall, but all other Studio apps fine

I haven’t done the updates, Walter. Let me try those and see what happens. Thanks and great to hear from you!
Mike Eberly
January 16, 2006 at 4:35 pm in reply to: motion tracking filter?

Thanks both of you for your help – I will look into those!

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