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Absolutely.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I keep Media Composer and FCS on separate partitions since they seem to prefer different version of OSX and Quicktime. That said, I just CS5 on the same partition as my FCS partition with no problems.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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When you rendered out of After Effects, did you set your alpha channel to straight or pre-multiplied. Also, you mentioned Lossless. Did you export as Apple Animation or Pro Res 4444? I’ve been using Pro Res 4444, since it will play with realtime.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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There is new Kona software you might try. Version 7.5.1 and I believe it comes with new firmware, so you’ll have the flash the firmware. (If you’ve never done it before, it’s very easy and AJA includes a very good readme on how to do it).
You might also try trashing your preferences. Download Pref Manager from Digital Rebellion. I’ve seen the green flashes before. I believe it’s a graphics card issue. I would restart FCP to fix it.
Regarding sync, in your playback settings, have you set the frame offset to 0? It defaults to 4.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Is it a scam? No. You’ll learn the tool better. Do employers care? No. Employers generally just want to know that you’re familiar with the technology and workflow appropriate to their project. A solid reel and resume, and of course nothing goes further than a good recommendation.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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You’re definitely going to need to use a combination of roto and a darn good keyer. Fortunately, After Effects should be able to handle this. Unfortunately, if you’ve never used After Effects, this is hardly a first project type of project though you’re welcome to give it a shot.
Even with the roto brush in CS5, you’ll need a decent amount of contrast for the tool to roto out your foreground. First off, is there a lot of motion in the shot? If shot, a simple mask should take care of the bulk of it. Depending on how different the green on the box, and the green on the matte are, you might get away with using two or three instances of the built in color keyer, some spill suppression (though not much, so you don’t affect the green on the box) and a matte choker.
Pete O’Connell, in the After Effects forums has some great DVDs and tutorials on roto techniques that might help you too.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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It’s not optimal, but if you’re editing natively, the bandwidth will probably do. If you’ve converted to Pro Res 422 (don’t do HQ) it’ll require more bandwidth but you still might be okay. How large is the 800 drive, and how full is it? That will play a large factor, especially if you’re using it to render to. As it gets more full, it will run slower, especially if the drive becomes more than 80% full.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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You can make it less pronounced by adding a little noise. If you have after effects, you can draw a mask on an adjustment layer, and lay noise just over the sky.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I have to agree with Shane, if you have any input regarding the shooting, you’ll want to suggest using a better color space than 4:2:0. I’m currently working on a show being shot on the EX3, and all footage is transcoded to Pro Res 422. I’m using keylight and after effects for all the chroma keying but it’s still challenging. It works better than Final Cut’s built in chroma keyer. Ahron Rabinowitz’s tutorial on “super tight garbage mattes” will help you, but my best advice would be to do your keying in After Effects or another good compositing application.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Even prior to the GS 120, with the GeForce 8800 I heard about numerous issues (in After Effects as well as FCP) and have always found the ATI cards to be more stable. I also have run a 2006 1,1 Mac Pro with a 3870, and that sucker is a tank. You could even go for the 4870, which Walter often praises is amazing for rendering in Color, and is probably overkill but will be amazing nonetheless in FCP.
I have noticed one thing with the Nahalem systems from working in After Effects. Certain plugins in After Effects (Particle World in this case) would crash on me unless I upgraded to CS4 (which the post house I’m working at declined) or if I disabled hyper threading. You can find their developer application online called “CHUD” which will open up the “Processor” controls on your System Preferences. There, you can disable hyper threading. I’ve found this to solve a great deal of stability issues on the Nehalem systems I’m working on. We’re using 10.5.8, what OSX version are you using?
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks