[Paul Ingvarsson]

[gary adcock] “Avid and others share the same philosophy.
“

I wouldn’t agree with that – until MC Adrenaline HD was released, DS was the only HD enabled product and with the Nitris configuration you can easily do 2 streams of HD 10 bit uncompressed – each layer with a dve and colour correction applied.

Just to be clear…

Freelance DS/Symphony
London

[Paul Ingvarsson]

I totally agree with this,

However this is the situation – i’m awaiting a new pair of edirol speakers that will interface with the digital outputs on my decklink duallink HD card – this card has no analogue outputs – so basically i’m trying to solve a problem in the short term.

Although not ideal is there a way this offest can be corrected in FCP?

many thanks,

paul

Freelance DS/Symphony
London

[Paul Ingvarsson]

Hello,

Thanks for all the ideas,

Leia – i’ll call you at a decent hour this morning,

Thanks again,

Paul

Freelance DS/Symphony
London

[Paul Ingvarsson]

OK – I’ve got it, i’m sure this is the solution!

Basically you need to ditch the highlight using the 3d dve page, besides that method doesn’t yield the best results in my opinion.

Create your title without the highlight – but make the word as big as the tv frame in the title tool.

Promote this title to 3d and position/scale it where you want it to go in the frame – it still wont have a highlight as yet.

Now step inside this effect and place a paint effect on the fill track of the title – this paint effect must exist where (in time) you want the highlight to be. In the paint effect make a white shape with feathered edges and move this shape across the whole frame left to right ( i find a tall rectangle with a slight rotation is best for this) animate this for the duration of the highlight this is best done with add edits restricting the duartion of the effect so you dont have to render the whole fill track. Once this is rendered save the effect to a bin and step out of the effect.

You should be able to play your text beck in realtime now!

Now copy this clip as described before to a different section of your timeline and modify the new title to say the next word you want. Be warned you will have to re-place the highlight effect to the fill of the new title because upon re=generation it loses nested effects. You should still see the add edits in the title fill though so you should be able to just drop the highlight effect onto your fill track again in the right place!

Your job is probably finished now though – so I hope this helps,

Paul

Freelance DS/Symphony
London

[Paul Ingvarsson]

What happens when you try outputting a 10 sec sequence to tape – does that work fine??

Paul

Freelance DS/Symphony
London

[Paul Ingvarsson]

Thats the problem with ‘Demo’s’ they are never real world examples – I can’t remember ever using the Symphony secondaries without having to draw a matte as well to hold out parts of the image. Eg BW shot wanted except for the actors blue eyes in closeup – but there is a blue truck in the BG too….

Freelance DS/Symphony
London

[Paul Ingvarsson]

OK Try this,

Mark your title in the timeline – press option-c this copies your title with highlight to the source monitor – move to the timecode you want and overwrite onto a different video track. This gives you two copies of the same word ‘Loyalty’. Now just edit the caption of the second instance into a different position and overtype what you want it to say.

Is that what you were after?!

Paul

Freelance DS/Symphony
London

[Paul Ingvarsson]

Jason,

Have a go at explainnig what you want to achieve again in more detail – there may still be a way to do what you want!

Paul

Freelance DS/Symphony
London

[Paul Ingvarsson]

Hi Jason,

If you option drag an effect oto a title you will certainly get the results you describe. Unfortunately this is the rubbish way Avid MC range works with multiple effects on clips.

What you need to do is step inside the title and apply the highlight effect to the fill layer of your title. Render this effcet when you are inside the title – then when you step out you are able to play the title in realtime.

The other possible workaround (I’m not sure I fully understand your desired results would be to experiment with saving off your 3d title parameters as a ‘without source’ effect clip (option drag the effect icon from the effects editor to a bin). You can then apply any complicated animations to a 3d matte key or 3d warp layer. This helps because rather than using 1 effect to control 2 layers you duplicate the effect parameters onto 2 seperate layers – hopefully avoiding locking the title to the video as you described.

Hope this helps,

Paul

Freelance DS/Symphony
London

[Paul Ingvarsson]

Check out the G-SATA solution just released – it comes with a two port sata card too.