[Miker Stovall]

Your first point got me thinking and I went back into the high and low points on the detail matte controls – Voila! Now I have no need to feather. Turns out I didn’t have a perfect black BG.

Thanks!

[Miker Stovall]

I’d like to feather it so the line where the garbage matte cuts through doesn’t show up – or at least it’s very faint. Maybe It’s just because I know where it is, but it’s a little too obvious to me right now.

Ohhhhh, running a batch – good thinking! It’s school-photo style on the green screen so everyone’s in the exact same light.

[Miker Stovall]

Thanks Steve – I’m doing a little color correction in FCP and I just love how Motion doesn’t support the same color space. I’ll have to mess around with the color correction in there. If it works out it’ll sure make it easy to integrate it with the “crawl” I need to have at the bottom of the screen.

[Miker Stovall]

Thanks Steve…will do!

[Miker Stovall]

Thanks!

Know of any way to get the 60p footage I’ve already captured back to 30p? Short of capturing it again and setting the outpoint (which I’ll do going forward).

[Miker Stovall]

I managed to solve this by creating the 422 at a standard size (1280×720) and then FCP would render it just fine. I know you’ve moved on, but try this the next time your having issues with FCP recognizing 422’s.

[Miker Stovall]

Did you ever find out what the problem is? I’m running into the exact same thing except I’m starting with MOD files. I’m using MPEG streamclip to convert to 422’s and then if I need to render them on the timeline I get the same “Codec not found” error.

[Miker Stovall]

Thanks for the response…

I sent it as an audio project and it did open up again in STP. I think the issue may have been me doing a Save As initially and telling the software where I wanted the file (ah, just trying to stay organized) rather than just letting it drop the file where it wanted to. That said, when I tried to re-link the media, I go find it, hit connect, and nothing would happen. The connect media window would be empty, but the media wasn’t connected and the only option was to hit cancel…which got me right back where I started.

Sorry for the novel, but you’ll laugh at my work around. I exported the original QT file as an aiff, dropped that into STP, did the noise reduction, exported the aiff, and then just dropped that into my timeline under the original audio for the file. It worked, but it’d be a pain if I had to do it with multiple clips.