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Rick Clingman
November 24, 2019 at 8:27 pm in reply to: One of my stock emitters are blurry on export

Thanks Timothy Dewey. This is good information. No I did not have a camera in this project but that’s really interesting how depth of field could mess with such a thing and yet another bit of info to store in the part of my brain reserved for Motion minutiae .

My solution turned out to be exporting with Custom Render and High Quality sampling UNCHECKED. That solved the problem!

OS 10.14.6, Motion 5.4.4, 2018 Mac mini, 3.2GHz i7, 32 GB RAM, 512 SSD
Rick Clingman
November 22, 2019 at 6:58 pm in reply to: Motion 5.4.4 Save Current Frame problem

Good to know. You make a good point. All I really need it for is to get a good Current Frame, so I could even just turn it on, crank out the jpeg, then turn if off.

Appreciate your help.

r

OS 10.14.6, Motion 5.4.4, 2018 Mac mini, 3.2GHz i7, 32 GB RAM, 512 SSD
Rick Clingman
November 21, 2019 at 7:21 pm in reply to: Motion 5.4.4 Save Current Frame problem

Hey Simon,

In my Motion learning curve, I just came across the Project/General settings in the Inspector. There is a Background setting where you can specify a solid color background instead of transparent. I tested it and by setting that to solid black, I see that I can get good jpeg current frame output.

Any disadvantage in doing it this way as opposed to putting a solid black rectangle at the bottom of the layers as you suggested?

thanks

OS 10.14.6, Motion 5.4.4, 2018 Mac mini, 3.2GHz i7, 32 GB RAM, 512 SSD
Rick Clingman
November 11, 2019 at 8:06 pm in reply to: Motion 5.4.4 Save Current Frame problem

Simon Ubsdell THANK YOU!

That’s exactly what was required.

Odd too because while one of the two videos I’m finishing does have a transparent background with text overlay, the other had an imported jpg image at the bottom of the layers that has no transparency itself. Why that wouldn’t serve as an opaque background confuses me?

Nonetheless, putting the black rectangle at the bottom solved the problem.

Thank you for your help, Simon.

OS 10.14.6, Motion 5.4.4, 2018 Mac mini, 3.2GHz i7, 32 GB RAM, 512 SSD
Rick Clingman
November 5, 2019 at 7:09 pm in reply to: One of my stock emitters are blurry on export

Overnight thought of the possibility that Motion 5.4.4 might have something going on with Catalina (not upgraded yet on my Mac mini). So I moved my Motion project to my MBPro which has both Catalina and Motion 5.4.4.
Did an export and STILL blurry!!!!! Arrrrgh.
Tried changing the codec to uncompressed 10-bit 4.2.2 just as a guess. Export looked great. Changed codec to H.264 (which yesterday gave me the blur) and it too looked great. Now I’m in “this doesn’t quite make sense” territory.
Do more google searching and find postings about Motion 5 and blurry export problems using Best quality. Go to my desktop and change it to Best quality – blurry; try again with Normal – not blurry. Find a posting that says if you want to use Best quality, use Custom in the Render dialog and turn High quality resampling off. Try it and NO blur!
So my current theory is that there is something having to do with my scaled UP flowers that exporting just has a problem with. Still just a theory so I’d love to hear from anyone out there with any other possible ideas about this.
Wanted to post something right away to let you know this may or may not be solved.
Back to work…hopefully

OS 10.14.6, Motion 5.4.4, 2018 Mac mini, 3.2GHz i7, 32 GB RAM, 512 SSD
Rick Clingman
December 22, 2009 at 1:23 am in reply to: MacPro>FinalizerPlus problem

Hi Ty,

Thanks for the welcome. I’m a bit new to the Mac (actually a returning Mac user after about 15 years).

No I hadn’t been to the Audio/MIDI Setup control panel. Jeez, I googled MacPro digital audio output and nothing showed up that talked about this control panel. I don’t know why Apple doesn’t put it in System Preferences. Anyway…

…I just opened it and after mucking around a bit was able to solve the problem. Sure enough the output was set to 44.1. Yes, the audio sounds much better now too! Ahhh.

So thank you so very much. I really appreciate it, and have a terrific holiday.

rick

rick clingman
MacPro 2.66, OS 10.5.8, FCP 6.0.6, Motion 3.0.2
Rick Clingman
September 19, 2009 at 11:49 pm in reply to: Final Cut Pro and Black Magic Intensity Pro Issue

Sigh!

The fact that this has been a known issue since July 2008 does not bove favorably for the IPro.

I see they say the card supports 1080i50, 1080i59.94, 720p50 and 720p59.94 for HD. Definitely different than your experience. Sure wish they’d drop in here at the forum and add some clarification as to whether this is their experience or whether you’re still battling some more elusive gremlin!

Thanks for the update, Douglas.

rick clingman
MacPro 2.66, OS 10.5.8, FCP 6.0.6
Rick Clingman
September 19, 2009 at 7:45 pm in reply to: Final Cut Pro and Black Magic Intensity Pro Issue

OK, additional searching has turned up what appears to be a solution.

Something about the Blackmagic driver not actually being updated!

You can find it here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/124/870847#870847

hope this helps…

rick clingman
MacPro 2.66, OS 10.5.8, FCP 6.0.6
Rick Clingman
September 19, 2009 at 7:33 pm in reply to: Final Cut Pro and Black Magic Intensity Pro Issue

Hi all,

I’m a potential Intensity Pro buyer and I’m wondering if any of you in this thread might know how this issue ended up.

Was this problem ever solved and if so, what was the hitch???

Sure appreciate the info. I’d hate to buy one of these cards and discover the same issue.

many thanks.

rick clingman
MacPro 2.66, OS 10.5.8, FCP 6.0.6