Simon Ubsdell
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[Andreas Kiel] “The handling of Motion Templates didn’t change that much – it’s been somehow easier with the new version. And it didn’t become anymore professional in a standard environment.”
Exactly – I think people have got excited about something that was actually always there and they never noticed before, as you say.
The big downside with FCPX/Motion 5 is surely the lack of round-tripping – if and when this is implemented, FCPX will be a whole lot stronger, but currently the Motion/FCPX interchange process is actually materially weaker than it has been in the past.
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[Andreas Kiel] “I love that you don’t need to render while working on an edit, that save a lot of time – though you’ve to render anyway if you want to export.”
I don’t know whether you have observed this but a lot of people seem to be finding that, unless it’s actually preventing them from working, there is really no need at all to render anything.
The difference in time taken between rendering the timeline (alarmingly slow) and simply exporting an unrendered timeline (remarkably fast) is very dramatic, to the extent that not rendering is clearly the most desirable option in most cases.
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[Marvin Holdman] ”
More like they won the world series”Can you guys please start talking English so the rest of us know what you’re going on about!!!???
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[Mitch Ives] “More professional would be”
Yes, there are aspects of the workflow that are less “professional” (and it’s a big frustration still) but for my money the quality of the rendered output is quite clearly superior, especially in terms of compositing graphics in a typical TV spot type scenario.
Back in the summer I had a hideous problem with FCP7 not being able to render a certain colour/opacity combination without serious artefacts – but the same composite in FCPX is very clean.
The floating-point architecture is, I think, a major step forward in terms of overall image quality …
Not to say there aren’t other issues to be resolved before it becomes the ideal tool!
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Thanks, Nick.
Good suggestion re: having those controls available onscreen.
The only trade-off would be extra oncsreen control “clutter” so I’m still trying to think of the least inelegant way of adding this and still leaving room for a few more bits and pieces that I think it could probably do with in terms of grading functionality, not least secondary capability.
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[Thomas Frank] “isn’t there a build in filter and an a technic for this in FCPX?”
Yes, there is – it’s in the effects menu and called “Censor”. Brendan’s version is more useful however.
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[Craig Seeman] ”
Yet is very close to ideal for certain kinds of work like this.”I totally agree – and when broadcast monitoring arrives I will definitely look to cut TV spots on FCPX. Which is the main reason I bothered to make these templates (as well as my safe title ones).
My point was based on my observation of the majority of users of FCPX who post on the various forums – for now the hobbyists vastly outnumber those who may or may not be using FCPX to make a living. From looking at the take-up on FCPX templates (which is obviously an inaccurate guide), there is a huge enthusiasm for cheesy graphical and other cliches and virtually none for templates like this which address issues of technical delivery.
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[Andreas Kiel] “But you should disable the background – that will make the templates more flexible.”
Thanks for the suggestion, Andreas. Here, for anyone who is interested, are the new versions without background:
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I did something for this for FCPX a while back:
3254_tkycaptionheightmeasurement.zip
… but my guess is that most FCPX users are not doing broadcast spots.
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Try this nice plug-in from Brendan Gibbons:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/344/1645
Simon Ubsdell
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