Nick Toth
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Use the 4:1:1 Color Filter ahead of the keyer. I’ve gotten surprisingly good green screen keys this way with the FCP chroma keyer and they have all been shot on DV with moving talent.
One thing I often do is tweak the luminance levels of the background video. This will effect the look of the key greatly.
Keying takes patience.
Often I’ll get a keyer setting that is close and then duplicate the keyer. Shut down one of the keyers and then continue to tweak the other. That way you have something to go back to if it gets balled up and you don’t have to start over from scratch.
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Have you updated to 5.0.2? Had the same problem and it has been fixed.
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Others to check out…
HB Communications in North Haven, CT
Crimson Tech in Boston.
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Select the sequence you want in the browser and then either choose export to compressor in the file menu or control click on the sequence and choose export to compressor in the contextual menu.
Also, you can try having the sequence you want as the active window with nothing in the seqeunce selected. Then use file>export>to compressor.
This problem seems to have something to do with what is or is not selected at the time you are doing the export.
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I did a clean install of Tiger and 5 on an empty formatted disk and I see problems. It may be FCP, it may be QT 7, it may have to do with the AJA IO. Some of it definitely seems to be small bugs in FCP. Reminds me of 3.0 and 4.0. They had weird things happen that seemed to settle down in the upgrades that followed. Regardless, I am using FCP 5 daily, it works well enough and I can’t be bothered to downgrade.
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Go into sequence settings and set motion filtering to ‘fastest’. I have found ‘normal’ and ‘best’ to cause these problems. Is this a DV sequence? What IO card?
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Try checking ‘preview’ under the ‘clip settings’ tab in the log and capture window.
This threw me at first as well!
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I have had the ‘drop to black but OK when rendered’ transition thing happen.
Also, the normal and best settings in motion filtering are worthless in my experience. They either muck up graphics or cause strobing or a slight jumping in any kind of motion effects. I only use the ‘fastest’ setting now.
There are other little bugs in FCP5 and/or Tiger. If I click and release on the left-right scroll arrows below the timeline while it is playing, I get a dropped frames error message. (Every time on two different systems). The text boxes in the log and capture window are a little weird in that sometimes if I click in a box and get what looks like a blinking cursor to insert text and then start typing, the existing text gets wiped as if the entire text box was selected although the text is not highlighted.
Overall (for my purposes) it’s not a significant upgrade relative to FCP 4.5.
(This is a clean install of Tiger and Production Suite on a new drive BTW)
The big differences are in the other pro apps, especially Motion and Soundtrack. Even Livetype is faster and has some minor improvements.
Other than the obvious UI difference, I believe there are ‘under the hood’ differences between FCP and the other pro apps that will hopefully be addressed in the next release.
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No matter what you’re using for a monitor, you need to look at your scopes and know how to use them.
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Use ‘Render Manager’ under Tools. (Not ‘Media Manager’)
Or right click on clip (or control click) and choose “Remove Attributes”. Leave everything unchecked and hit enter.