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… but if you wanted to get to Nuke you could:
https://clipexporter.mindtransplant.com/
Not to Shake though as far as I know, but the Xto7 route should work just fine.
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[Chris Harlan] “Yes. Andy apparently has some rather severe social issues.”
Surely “Andy” is a comedy character made up for our collective amusement?
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You might want to try out the Trails filter available under in the Time filters folder.
Maybe reverse your shot, apply the trails filter and then reverse it back the right way?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Don’t make me go look it up!”
Just kidding 😉
I could never get you to admit how vitally important the whole question was!
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Like it was said two years ago, this stuff doesn’t really matter, does it?”
Revisionist 😉
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[Charlie Austin] “Now, other than the vastly simplified UI, not so much. Maybe iMovie and X have a symbiotic, leapfrogging relationship…
A- Try out concepts in iMovie 8 -> build a brand new app, FCPX, based on those concepts.
—launch FCPX and make improvements over time. Meanwhile…
B- Rewrite new iMovie based on FCPX code and try out new concepts -> Use new concepts in FCP X ??? “That sounds like the most sensible description for sure.
But there will always be folks to whom it is an article of faith that the two could never have had anything in common.
In the case of FCP X, sure the guts are different, but what is really distinctive about X as against every other NLE out there? Its fundamental design concepts. And to argue that these didn’t derive directly from the iMovie development path has always struck me as highly perverse.
How you build an app is one thing – what you are building is quite another thing. Two apps can be built entirely differently and yet be driven by an identical design concept.
(Coincidentally, I’m doing that exact same thing this week (albeit on a scale vastly more modest than X) with one of my commercial products – taking it from something only accessible to X users and making a version that will work in Premiere and Ae. Entirely different build methods – the same end product.)
[Charlie Austin] “Maybe they’ll put “Pro Quality” Trailer Templates in X, and we’ll all be out of jobs.”
They’re already much too good for my liking 😉
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[Charlie Austin] “[Jeremy Garchow] “That has probably changed with this new version, though.”
It has. It’s 64 now..,”
Aha!!!!!
Therefore by the impeccable logic that has so often been so devastatingly deployed by the “FCP X is not based in iMovie” crowd, the only possible conclusion we can draw from this is that the new “iMovie” has absolutely nothing in common with the old “iMovie”.
Nothing.
Not one shred of code.
Not one single point of comparison.
Now that’s weird.
But so obviously true as not to require any further discussion.
For those of you to young to remember, it was always definitively argued that because FCP X was 64 bit and iMovie was only 32 bit there was self-evidently nothing that they could possibly have in common.
Despite the apparently self-evident fact that the entire design underpinning of both products was identical at the point of X’s launch.
Instead we now have the rather bizarre scenario of folks arguing that the new iMovie is based on X – and of course wouldn’t look remotely like X if X hadn’t come first!!!!!
The world is a very strange place …
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[Oliver Peters] “Yes, but something about it just looks wrong to me, optically. I’ve also done a lot of 720 finishes shot with 1080 cameras for the same reason. The “fake” second angle.”
This is of course the key point in this discussion.
The optics of pushing in are all wrong – forget shooting with beautiful primes if you’re just going to ruin the optical effect by dramatic reframing.
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Make sure your corners are matched up correctly to the trackers – depending on what order you set the trackers in, the match-mived image might disappear.
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Hi Kent
For installation, make sure you check out Apple’s recommendations in order not to get into a mess:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4722
You can use Motion 4 and Motion5 on the same machine if you follow the correct procedures.
Motion 5 won’t give you the ability to link to FCP 7 sequences – which is quite a big deal.
Otherwise you should be able to use it just like you’re currently using Motion 4. There’s not a whole lot that’s fundamentally changed – but rigging and publishing are a great addition.
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