[Rikki Blow]

i agree it’s fairly easy to do, but i could see that if you wanted a fair amount of it, it’s quite tedious and time-consuming, and there could be a way a well-designed plug-in could make it breeze.

[Rikki Blow]

i can imagine all sorts of use for a freehand custom plug-in of this sort – plug-in designers take note!!
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have seen those plug-ins you mention, and use them sometimes, but just love the idea of being able to do freehand versions on a connected tablet.
will have to try and get to grips with motion and maybe even end up[ creating my own plug-in perhaps? – seems a bit daunting as i’ve never progressed far in that app and don’t use it often enough to rmember what i’ve learnt each time i’ve tried.

[Rikki Blow]

Just looking to mark up and put diagrams into a video edit, not live, but showing the pen strokes without the pen.

[Rikki Blow]

I’ve realised that capturing the screen with quicktime isn’t giving me the effect i need, because you can of course see the drawing tool in whatever app you’re capturing. i want to see the output of what i’m drawing, not the tool i’m using to draw it. does that make sense?

[Rikki Blow]

Quicktime record sounds feasible for standalone ‘whiteboard’ style illustrating, thanks – will try.

I’ve only played a little with Motion (for tweaking FCPX effects occasionally) so this sounds like quite a learning curve, but I’ll have a look around for freehand mask tuts and see if i get anywhere – really surprised if no-one’s turned that capability into a ready-made plugin though.

If I wasn’t clear about what I’m trying to do, it’s because I see the capability as having several uses, but here’s couple of for instance examples:

1 I’m creating a series of punchier short films based on some great ideas badly presented in a rather boring lecture, and i want to quickly create some bespoke diagrams, that i’d find very easy to quickly draw, and somewhat slower to create graphically,

2 I’m creating a title sequence, with a handwritten caption appearing in real hand-writing time on screen (my own hand-writing, not a font).

[Rikki Blow]

Totally agree with you.
I’d like to keep up with FCPX updates, but I’m currently on Sierra and I know High Sierra migration will probably break some other bits and pieces I rely on, so deeply unhappy that I’m dragged on to it just to keep up.
There is really no reason there can’t be sensible backward compatibility other than capitalism itself. These forced updates are about obsolescence and wringing more money out of us, not about improving our overall experience. I wouldn’t mind quite so much if these companies actually paid realistic taxes back into the system, but they are just great big hoovers, and we’re the dust getting sucked up.

[Rikki Blow]

Well, I’ve got files that are marked as .movs, and the Treasured app from above-mentioned aeroquartet shows that they will be fixable, but i can’t justify the budget to upload to them. VLC won’t play them. i strongly suspect if i was adept at FFMPEG i could rescue them that way, but i can’t work out the technique and probably haven’t enough time to learn it all.

Looks like I can try a demo of Primetime, so will see if that helps.

[Rikki Blow]

After using ‘Media Recover’ I saved the found files, and then tried Disk Drill (with less success) and tried Data Rescue – which looked like it was working well but produced files that were kbs in size rather than tens or hundreds of MBs as expected.

VLC won’t play, and i did try renaming files and also changing.mov to .mp4 and back.

I haven’t looked at FFMPEG in years but i remember it used to be all command-line and I thought VLC was basically the front end for it.

Very frustratingly (but thanks for the pointer) I downloaded the aeroquartet ‘Treasured’ app, and YES, i can see my missing footage as previews so it does seem to be recoverable. Unfortunately the fees to save the files are a bit steep for this particular project, so I don’t want to go down that route.

The frustration is, of course, that I now know the files ARE recoverable, but haven’t got the software needed to do it myself. AARGH 🙁

[Rikki Blow]

I just wish they’d sorted out some legacy bugs before bringing in all the new 360 stuff etc which many of us will never use, and those desperate to work in 360 were already using other software.

For example, how about making it so that all the text in list mode in the browser doesn’t suddenly disappear from time to time – people have been reporting this for years – if anything it seems to be happening more often in 10.4. Other text, like the time indicators when you move clips slightly in the timeline, also seems to be blanking out more than before – although again by no means a new bug.

Also, the much documented wish that searching favourites would bring up just a list of favourites, and not all the enclosing clips with closed disclosure triangles. So frustrating for a supposedly data-rich system.

[Rikki Blow]

Ta for that Noah. I must at least remember not to put any of my archive DV tapes on the laptop.
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