Nick Price
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There is a vignette plugin in one of the effects folders in FCP6. YOu can also pick up plugins for cheap (and free) from various plugin makers. Have a dig around the net if it isnt in your effect folder.
nick
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Hi there,
your problem might aslo be your decklink card. This is a known unsolved problem with decklinks, it happened with my Decklink SP (and not with my AJA IO) and there is seemingly no way to fix other than to restart. There was talk about it on the Cow but over a year ago.
Sorry
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Lots of companies in the UK will do this too. Alternatively, you can turn your edit into an online suite, with a capture card like an AJA Kona or Blackmagic, then hire the deck, its around £110 in the UK.
cheers
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Hi tim,
check that you have rendered the move (a light blue line should be above the timeline, anything else, green, orange, red then it is unrendered). I never found the move tools in FCP very good, especially the inability to smooth the positioning, so i now use a plugin ‘lyric pan zoom’, it is amazing and will produce rostrum style picture effect really well, and its pretty cheapBest wishes
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Yeah, i have found that FCp often doesnt like several difficult alterations on one clip: exporting as a quicktime between filters/alterations fixes it.
nick
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Hi Michael,
I agree with Rob. FCP isnt great at this. Remember to render and set the render settings in the Timeline option menu to best.Try adding a field blend filter, can sometimes make it better.
Otherwise take that clip to ‘motion’. Its really easy to do, and produces much better results.
best wishes
Nick
Offline/Online Editor, UK
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a new option i have jsut started using, is getting compressor to do the work. Motion can do the same thing but i could never get it to work how i want. See John Pale’s advice on compressor in this thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1018706
Compressor uses a much better scaling tool, the results are much much better. But the rendering is wuite long and moving the image up and down in the frame for headroom wont be easy. But it is the most cost efficient way.
Nick
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and its shortcut is shift+L
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Hi Paul,
you can mix the two formats on your timeline, but depending on the speed of your computer you might have to render the lower res footage to play it. Or you can watch with your realtime settings set at ‘unlimited’ and it will play at a lower resolution. Then when you are happy with your edit you can use compressor to upscale your dv clips. You can do this in FCP but it compressor does a better job. Of course can upscale all your footage before you edit… I suppose it depends how much footage you have.best wishes
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Hi Rafael,
I agree with everything you say…. especially the beer/friends. Believe me if i had unlimited funds I think i would start with third world debt and then get onto the film world…I get all that about fcp, i fact i think we had a conversation about compressor upscaling a while back. I think what i am looking for is more what hardware is available after finishing an offline in FCP, and how could the best possible job be achieved. And if anyone out there has experience taking rough dv and projecting onto a cinema screen where all its ‘bits’ will be seen
thanks
nick