[Stephen Smith]

I’ve never done it but here are my thoughts: I would key out the green. You may then need to export out that keyed clip. I prefer the Animation codec set to millions +. Import the keyed clip and add a black color solid or something behind the clip so where the green was it is now black. Add a levels filter and adjust one of the bottom triangles so it makes the clip 100% white. Then create a gradient. If you make the gradient a horizontal liner gradient and the truck drives on and off the green screen in a straight line then you just need to make the gradient long enough to cover where the truck drives on and off. If you have like a radial gradient you will have to do a match move behavior or key frame it. Any ways, add an image mask so the white takes on the gradient. If you don’t know how to do an image mask then check out my Creating a Hologram video tutorial. The image mask part is in the middle of the tutorial. Hope this helps and best of luck.

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[Stephen Smith]

Sorry Joshua, I won’t be able to do that. My Apple Motion Training DVD has some great tutorials on it that I think will help you out, plus you’ll learn other most know concepts.

If you want an even better tracker you can take a look at Mocha.

Hope this helps and best of luck.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

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[Stephen Smith]

Sorry for the delayed response, I’ve been buried knee deep in work. To answer your question.

Interlaced video is a scanning method that divides a video frame into two fields, each consisting of alternating odd and even lines that are scanned at different times. When those two fields are put together you have what you see in a frame.

A progressive scan just scans all of the lines consecutively.

Frame rates lower than 40 fps can cause noticeable flicker. When NTSC and PAL were invented, faster frame rates were not practical to implement. Interlaced scanning was devised to create a perceived frame rate of 60 fps (NTSC) or 50 fps (PAL). Interlaced video scans the display twice, using two fields, to complete a single frame. A single field contains only the odd lines (1, 3, 5, 7, and so on) or the even lines (2, 4, 6, 8, and so on) of the frame. If you could stop the video scanning process to observe a single video field, you would see that every other line is missing, like venetian blinds or a comb.
Because the fields are changing at twice the frame rate, there is less perceived flicker than if each frame was scanned progressively. For example, with NTSC, a field of odd lines is scanned in 1/60 of a second and a field of even lines follows in the next 1/60 of a second, resulting in a complete frame every 1/30 of a second. Take a look at the image below:

As for frame rates, I recommend you play around with some different frame rates and see what you like. For a documentary I’m working on that is 24p we decided to make the animations 30fps for a smother look.

Hope this helps and best of luck.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

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[Stephen Smith]

Happy to help, there are some really good templates out there that have great assets that you could pull from them.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

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[Stephen Smith]

Motion comes with a lot of elements that you can use, go to the Library tab, Content.

Another great way to go is by purchasing Motion templates. Here are some sites, I’ll let you determine if they are great or not:

https://www.motionvfx.com/ (motion and AE)
https://rippletraining.com/engine/designer_templates_final_cut_studio.html
https://motiontemplatesonline.com/
https://www.finalcutprotemplates.com/
https://www.motiontemplate.co.uk/
https://finalcutking.com/Video_Training/Templates.html

and I have one motion template on my site with more to come.

Hope this helps and best of luck.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

Check out my Motion Training DVD

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[Stephen Smith]

Happy to help, best of luck.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

Check out my Motion Training DVD

Check out my Motion Tutorials

[Stephen Smith]

https://motiontemplatesonline.com/
https://www.finalcutprotemplates.com/
https://www.motiontemplate.co.uk/
https://finalcutking.com/Video_Training/Templates.html

and I have one motion template on my site with more to come.

Best of luck and hope this helps.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

Check out my Motion Training DVD

Check out my Motion Tutorials

[Stephen Smith]

I understand what you are saying, that will only go so far and is extra work. If I want to work with particles and other stuff that would be problematic. Regardless, I think this is one of the coolest plug-ins I’ve ever seen.

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

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[Stephen Smith]

You may want to ask your question in the Compression Techniques forum:

https://forums.creativecow.net/compressiontechniques

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

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[Stephen Smith]

What program are you using?

Stephen Smith
Utah Video Productions

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