[Mpigott]

Maybe my first post wasn’t clear but I am looking for some help

We have the cinelata F350 Sony XDCAM, and I wanted to do a client
review DVD directly from the SD output on the F350 WITH timecode overlay.

It was shot a 35MB DV, so it is SD already.

Even though I went through the Operations Menu and enabled
TC overlay on Video Out, when I hit play I still got only the
SD video less the TC overlay.

Did I miss something?

Thanks

Mark Pigott

[Mpigott]

Peter Wiggins said:

“Brad,

You could always give my free CoverFlux plugin a go:- “

I can’t use Coverflux for two reasons
a) I have OSX 4.11
b) I have 88 slides that needs a template
(Coverflux does 25)

Do you know of any commercial template that would do this?

[Mpigott]

Hi! What I meant, is how do I know the RAM inside the video card is
working. I am not concerned with the system RAM but whether the 9800’s
video ram is active. Even simple scenes are very slow in Motion 3.1

In the System Profiler under Hardware click on Memory. It will tell you wether your slots are empty or not. If empty they where installed wrong or you have the wrong kind of ram.

Also, you can go to your Applications folder, Utilities, Activity Monitor.app. This will show you how much ram you are using at a time.

Hope this helps.

[Mpigott]

“The FCP Canvas is degraded. Export and look at the image in Quicktime Player or change your Canvas to 100% scale and look at it that way. Quicktime player is better though.

FCP expects you to have an external monitor for broadcast / film work so the canvas is purposely degraded.”

This is a major flaw with FCP, as more and more people do internet only, or computer playback only,
a video output is redundant.

Right now I am doing a 1080p30 production which will be shrunk down to youtube res later.
So, having apple have a great CPU monitor AND a great output to Video would be a plus!

[Mpigott]

I just trashed the preferences and it still doesn’t work.
Luckilly I still have 3ds Max and Adobe Suite CS4
as backups…

[Mpigott]

“Sorry Mark, it opened up with no problems on my machine. I looked at the manual and it doesn’t say that the file needs to be created on Mac version of the program. See if this AI file works. ”

I took the 366_test.ai from the desktop and saved in in a test directory, but whether I imported
from the file\import menu or from the media import + button or the media\import function the
366_test.ai is greyed out.

I am running Motion 3.02

[Mpigott]

here is the ftp

stillwaterfilms.com/testformotion.ai

[Mpigott]

Let me ftp it- the uploads don’t work here.
Just email me and I will set up an ftp here at work

[Mpigott]

I came out of my Windows illustrator as a PDF compatible .ai file.
Apple Motion will not read the CS4 noway-no how.
Is it another…”gee, you better buy the Mac version of the Adobe Suite” ????

[Mpigott]

Why on earth would Apple forget to allow PC Photoshop to work
(as it is the majority of users out there)!