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[Bill Davis] “There are (hopefully) legions of editors who will appreciate the control and be delighted to pay for the new capabilities. “
Thanks, Bill. I seriously doubt that we’re going to sell enough units to cover the time we have spent developing it, but that was never really the point. We both became really engrossed in the challenge that it represented and we’ve discovered some really interesting things along the way, so really that’s the payback. Yup, we’re lousy businessmen, that’s for sure 😉
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Wow! Thank you so much, Tim (and others), for your extremely kind words!
I’d really like to step up and take all the credit but really I don’t deserve any of it and it should go to my very talented (and ever so slightly obsessive) Hawaiki development partner, Rob Mackintosh. My only contribution was to come up with fantastical, unreasonable, impossible demands which he then not only turned into reality, but in each case massively improved upon in the execution.
I should also thank Oliver P., Jeremy G., Charlie A. and Walter S. who gave up their valuable time to beta test it and each contributed great ideas for how to improve it.
It should also be obvious to those of you who have been around here for a while, as Charlie alludes to above, that the original inspiration for this came from the many debates that have taken place on this very forum on the subject of dissolves, and of course this recent one in particular. As ever, this place is a great crucible of fascinating discussion and provocative, crazy, brilliant ideas, which it’s hard not to be inspired by, so thanks to all of you for that!
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Thanks for your help. A complete uninstall and reinstall seems to have sorted it out.
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Good thought, thanks, Jeff but no, that doesn’t seem to be it.
Even more strangely PNG doesn’t seem to be on the list of readable files anymore:
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There’s a really nice way of getting this effect and that’s to take your text and blur it quite a lot (which will round the edges), and then apply a Levels filter and adjust the Alpha Black In (not the RGB) to add sharpness back to the shape.
In this case you will want two instances of this, one for the black core and the other for the wider yellow version.
You don’t actually need a rounded font to achieve the look – just plain Arial will probably do.
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[Neil Goodman] “modern workflows are different for each and every person and shop”
I think this is a very important point.
There’s a sense in some quarters that workflows are congregating around a single simplified model where it’s possible to be reductive about what you need and don’t need, whereas out here in the real world what I see is a proliferation of different workflows that are getting continually more complex and varied … not less.
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[Neil Goodman] “In Avid my TC window which is always up – has about 6 lines of crucial information at a glance. Priceless IMO. “
No, no, no – you should be using satellite timing. Don’t you know anything?!!
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[Oliver Peters] “So timecode – even in an era of GPS and other methods – has a lot of value.”
Quite so.
But even if we went over to a different way of expressing it, and I can’t see the immediate benefit of that if any, the point I was making is that being able to read the time stamp of multiple clips at the same time within the NLE, is of vital importance in so many different scenarios, it’s not much point in trying to enumerate them!
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[Tim Wilson] “I hope that nobody here will argue that we as pro users are not a pain in Apple’s ass at least occasionally.”
I think the problem with Shake from Apple’s point of view was that it is a microscopically small market that at the same time has astronomically high expectations in respect of product development.
If you just look at the changes in the VFX world that have taken place since Shake was EOL’d, there have been giant strides forward year on year that only dedicated players have been able to keep up with.
If we then look at the pace of development on Apple’s video products, namely FCP X and Motion, it’s plain to see that they are not in the business of keeping up with this kind of change, to say the very least!
It’s sound commercial sense not to be wasting time with niche products like Shake …
But as someone who, like most in the VFX community, really, really liked working with Shake, it’s a sadness to me that it was killed.
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[Shawn Miller] “I thought Shake’s optical flow technology made it into Motion via their camera stabilization effect… I could be wrong though. :-)”
I could be wrong too (!) but I think we had optical flow in Motion before they introduced the stabilisation option.
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