Ron James
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That’s funny. Sometimes we spend so much time and money on a sophisticated way to achieve a simple effect.
Although, I liked how (with the Buena effect) you could control all the variables, like repeated frames, how often the blocks occur, the block size and seed, etc. Maybe, come to think of it, it looks less like digital dropout and more like satellite interference. Cool effect, though. Just can’t justify the cost. I wasn’t really interested in the rest of the filters in the bundle.
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Don,
The multiclips I’m working on now are 3-camera. The ‘live’ (open) switching looks like an amazing way to quickly bang out a few different versions of a scene.
Another strange thing…I haven’t yet been able to actually create an automatic multiclip sequence, with the ‘make multiclip sequence’ option. So I just uncheck the ‘automatically place clips into sequence’ box now. But I like using this method (instead of the ‘make multiclip’) to sync the clips together, b/c you can use the percentage slider to fine tune the multiclip setup. I’ve been using TC for sync, as opposed to in-points, FWIW.
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Thanks a lot, Don!
I covered this in the manual, but was jumping back and forth to FCP, so I must’ve missed this. I’ll read through slower this time (I tend to get a little too excited, I think).
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I’ve been looking for a while for an effect like this, too, and the only one I could find was by Buena Effects and it only comes in a bundle that is about $300 US, if I remember correctly. Worse than that, though, when I tried the demo (this was back in FCP 3, mind you) FCP kept quitting everytime I used the plugin.
It looked like exactly what you’re talking about, though.
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Gary, I was using the TCR alright, but on a nested sequence, b/c I wanted the sequence TC. I guess I could’ve just used the generator, but the TCR worked the second time around.
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Ahhh, thank-you!!! I’ll have to try this tomorrow when I’m at my workstation. Must’ve missed that one in the manual.
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Danny, sorry for my ignorance, but where does Sorenson 3 fit into the workflow? I was thinking you export a ref. movie and then open that in DVDSP for the conversion?
Thanks for all your great info in this thread.
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In a perfect world, that makes perfect sense! :O)
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oops, I missed this thread (I posted something similar, but not exactly the same above)…
What I’ve done (if I remember correctly) is plunk my multiclip into the TL and unlink the video and audio, then choose the audio angle I want (with me, there’s usually one audio track I need throughout, with the main audio, the other being a backup track or ambience), then choose the audio angle that will be my first cut and link the audio to this video, then use ‘open’ to live switch all my video cuts.
This multiclip stuff is pretty powerful stuff, really.
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Ahhh, that’s a very good thing to know. Thank-you very much.
Have you ever seen an apparently randomly generated TCR value, though? This has happened to me twice and I can’t repeat it and I can’t relate it to any TC, either in the sequence or on a clip. Very strange.
Thanks again for that tip, though. This is something I’m going to do from now on. I always thought a the purpose of a slug was just that, to fill gaps. Not sure why I thought this.
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