[Nick Meyers]

i use a combo of the mentioned techniques.

i extend the tail as long as possible by either freezing, slowing down, or reversing

then dissolve in the incoming shot ON ANOTHER TRACK.

the best way, in my opinion is to reverse the clip, if possible.
this gives you the best results as the grain or noise pattern will not change.
slowing is a bit more obvious as you’ll see the strobe on the grain or noise, and on the movement itself, of course.
and a freeze is the worst, as you’ve noticed.
if the freeze or slow-down is hidden WITHIN the dissolve, you can get away with it.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

“I think one might even choose “Use existing” rather than “Move”?”

yes that might work.
i don’t use “use existing” though
that;’s mainly for when you want to reduce your project to just the parts used in the cut.
really what that’ll do is make a copy then delete the original (but it’s kind of invisible).
problem is if something goes wrong you;re up the creek
i MUCH prefer to use COPY mode, then CHECK that it worked,
then delete the original myself.
that’s just me, tho (actually, no it’s not.. it’s a few people!)

however it probably *would* have the same result in this case.

“I’ve found that if I have footage with single or double quotes in either the clip name (in the browser) or the file name (on disk)”

i dont know enough about Motion to comment.

but if you haven’t cut anything to a timeline yet,
you;d be just as well off doing this with a re-name application.
drop all the files into R-name, for instance,
delete first character is one operation,
delete last character is another.
pretty simple really.
then drag them all back into FCP.
who cares if the original lot of browser ones go offline,
you’ve got the new ones!

hope that helps,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

my academy award must be just around the cormer…:)

[Nick Meyers]

slightly OT, but my favourite batch re-naming app is R-Name:

https://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14404

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

Yes, Virginia, there IS a way to do it…

Media Manager!

Select all your clips in the browser
Open MM

Use MOVE mode
DONT delete unused
Base Media File Names on: CLIP NAMES
BROWSE to a location on the SAME drive the files are already on.

when you hit OK,
the files get moved from the folder they are currently in:
Your Original Capture Scratch Location/Capture Scratch/Project Name
to a new folder:
Nominated Browse Location/Media/Project Name

and they adopt the CLIP names in the process.

as they are not moving from one drive to another, it only takes a few sconds
(if you have the files spread over more than one drive, open the source column in the browser and sort by that, Media Manage in batches determined by drive)

NOTE:
if you have already started cuting, and have clips in the timeline, this proecess may well result in the timeline clips going offline.
only thing you can do then is to manualy recnnect one by one.
this *might* be avoided (i’m guessing) by quiting FCP after you do the process.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

in and out points in the viewer have NO effect.
in and out points on the timeline DO.

in fact they will take precedence over clip boundaries.

in some instances you can replace “nothing” if you have a blank area defined with in and out points.
sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn’t.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

Aussie FCP guy Markus Herrick has a free “Vignette” plugin available here:

https://www.haiku.com.au/2005/08/final-cut-pro-plug-ins.html

it’ll make all our lives easier 🙂

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

they said the same thing about MM and speed mod clips when v5.0 came out.

wait and see…

nick

[Nick Meyers]

check out this recent thread:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=8&postid=887179&pview=t#head

nick

[Nick Meyers]

hi, Matt

first off, let me say thanks for the great plugins you make.

now, onto business…

i suspect the best solution would be to convert the m2v files to an HD format.
if space is a premium,
i think your best bet is to convert to DVCPro HD using MPEG Streamclip.

if you did “whole-file” converts originally in MPEG Streamclip, then do whole file converts again.
do a quick double check that the TC’s match, between the old and the new files,
then you’ll be able to do a simple re-connect.

if you didnt, do “whole-file” converts then you might have to eye-match 🙁
although i’m sure there’d be a (slightly) better way

maybe you need to bite the bullet and go and get some more drive space?

cheers,
nick