[Stephen Botting]

[Walter Soyka] ”
Premultiplication violates the PNG spec [link]. PNG alpha is always supposed to be straight.

What is the problem you’re having? Can you show the issue and describe your workflow?
“

I wasn’t aware of that, thanks. I’ve done a little digging and it appears the Blackmagic ATEM doesn’t interpret PNG’s correctly. Looks like I’ll be switching to targa, for the ATEM. I thought I was having problems with CasparCG, but that has turned about to be ok.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Stephen

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[Stephen Botting]

Thanks for the reply.

I cannot find the Vertical Alignment option in Format. I’m only using Motion 4, this isn’t a new feature of Motion 5 is it.

Thanks,
Stephen

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[Stephen Botting]

Thanks that makes sense.

Cheers

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[Stephen Botting]

[Andreas Kiel] “If you have to create many Lower Thirds and those might have to be changed during the edit you shouldn’t use Boris. Changes there do cost a lot of time.
Better way is to create (or use) a simple Motion Template.
Another option is to use my free TextUp generator, though it’s more thought for use with subtitles.

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools“

Hi thanks,
Yeah boris is a little fiddly, this is for a daily post produced news programme, and previously the built in lower thirds worked fine. But we have made some changes and it no longer works for us. I use After Effects, so didn’t think of using Motion. Looks like it will really well, except I cannot get FCP to automatically recognize the template as anamorphic, it is set right in motion, but I have to manually check the anamorphic property each time I use it.

I’m using FCP 6.06 and Motion 3.

Thanks,
Stephen

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[Stephen Botting]

There it is, thanks for your help, this will do nicely.

Cheers.

[Stephen Botting]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Are you using title 3d?”

No I don’t have that plugin.

Thanks,
Stephen

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[Stephen Botting]

Thanks Dan,

As you suggested I found a page with an algorithm to make the conversion.

When I try to run the script I wrote I get returned the error “| is undefined” with the line “if (S == 0) {” highlighted, if I comment out that “if” structure, I get the same error but on the “var rgb = new Array(3);”

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Stephen

For some reason all my < symbols are appearing as < tried to fix it and it changes back.

function hslToRGB(H,S,L) {
//https://130.116.54.154/~monger/hsl-rgb.html

var rgb = new Array(3);
if (S == 0) {
rgb[0] = L;
rgb[1] = L;
rgb[2] = L;
return rgb;
}

if (L &lt; 0.5) var temp2 = L * (1.0+S);
if (l >= 0.5) var temp2 = L+S-L*S;

var temp1 = 2.0*L - temp2;
H = H/360;

var temp3 = new Array(3);
temp3[0] = H+1.0/3.0;
temp3[1] = H;
temp3[2] = H-1.0/3.0;

for (i=0; i &lt; temp3.length; i++) {
if (temp3[i] &lt; 0) temp3[i] = temp3[i] + 1.0;
if (temp3[i] > 1) temp3[i] = temp3[i] - 1.0;

if (6.0 * temp3[i] < 1) {
rgb[i] = temp1 +(temp2-temp1) * 6.0 * temp3[i];
} else if (2.0*temp3[i] < 1) {
rgb[i] = temp2;
} else if (3.0*temp3[i] < 2) {
rgb[i] = temp1+(temp2-temp1)*((2.0/3.0)-temp3[i])*6.0;
} else {
rgb[i] = temp1;
}
}
return rgb;
}


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[Stephen Botting]

Hi there,

I’m trying to do a similar thing but through extendscript, when I try to run it says that “Function hslToRgb is undefined”

Thanks,
Stephen

var inRgb = hslToRgb([0.5,0.5,0.5,0]);

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[Stephen Botting]

Thanks for the reply, I’m assuming from this that I need to include the Z position even when the layer is 2D.

Worked great once I looked at your code properly.

Cheers,
Stephen

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[Stephen Botting]

[Shane Ross] “[Stephen Botting] “he original child that I placed on the parent seq timeline has updated as expected, but all the copies do not. ”

Of course not…they are stand alone sequences. They are just part of the master sequence. What you want to look at is NESTING.

[Stephen Botting] “Is there a way to copy sequences and paste them back on the timeline and still reference the original sequence, so I can update the original and the rest follow suit. ”

Yep…nesting. Go to the HELP menu and load the FCP user manual and look up NESTING and how it work”

Sorry, my bad, should have said nesting, I call it a Pre Comp half the time, always confuse myself between programmes. 🙂

Nesting is what I have been doing, by dragging from the browser rather than via the menu command, by what I understand (by reading the manual), and from what I have tested and experienced, both nesting methods create the same result.

So copying a nested sequence from the parent timeline and pasting it back onto the same parent time in effect creates a new nested sequence. Which is in relation to the behaviour of clips is expected.

What I am asking, is there a way to copy a clip / sequence and then paste it, but instead of a new clip being created, it is linked to the original, thus changes like, effects, makers, etc are reflected across all the copies. This can be done in After Effects, can it be done in FCP.

Cheers

Stephen Botting

stephen@43south.co.nz
https://www.43south.co.nz